The impact of career expectation on employment anxiety of art students in higher vocational colleges during the COVID-19: A chain mediating role of social support and psychological capital

In the process of college students' employment, psychological capital, and social support play a vital role. This study examined the relationship between career expectation and employment anxiety of Chinese vocational art college students (  = 634). Participants completed the Career Expectation...

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Published inFrontiers in psychology Vol. 14; p. 1141472
Main Author Zhao, An
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 14.03.2023
Subjects
career expectations
employment anxiety
higher vocational art students
psychological capital
Psychology
social support
social support
psychological capital
employment anxiety
higher vocational art students
career expectations
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Summary:In the process of college students' employment, psychological capital, and social support play a vital role. This study examined the relationship between career expectation and employment anxiety of Chinese vocational art college students (  = 634). Participants completed the Career Expectation Scale (CES), Employment Anxiety Scale (EAS), Psychological Capital Scale (PCS), and Social Support Scale (SSS). (1) Vocational art students' career expectation has a positive predictive effect on employment anxiety, social support, and psychological capital; Social support and psychological capital have negative predictive effects on employment anxiety. (2) Social support and psychological capital play a significant chain intermediary role between career expectation and employment anxiety, and there is a masking effect. These results are of guiding significance to the improvement of the employment quality of art students in higher vocational colleges and the employment consulting work in colleges.
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Reviewed by: Liying Nong, Hezhou University, China; Ya-Ting Chuang, National University of Tainan, Taiwan; David Conversi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
This article was submitted to Health Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Edited by: Morena Muzi, University of Macerata, Italy
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1141472