The Impact Of Future Time Perspective On Career Adaptability Among Junior High School Students: Research On The Mediation And Intervention Of Career Decision Self-efficacy

High school is the budding stage of life for future planning,especially in the context of the new college entrance examination policy,many high school students face the pressure of choosing subjects before they have fully adapted to the transition from middle school to high school career,which can easily cause maladjustment in high school students.In high school,students’ various psychological problems are inextricably linked to career adaptability.If high school students show higher levels of self-confidence when it comes to future time and planning future events,their adaptation to high school career is also different.The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of high school students’ future time perspective level on career adaptability under the new college entrance examination policy,to investigate whether future time perspective can influence career adaptability through career decision self-efficacy,and to design an intervention program for high school students’ career decision self-efficacy,and to evaluate its implementation and effects.In Study 1,a total of 700 students from a high school in a city were used to measure the Adolescent Future Time Perspective scale,the Professional Decision Self-Efficacy scale,and the Career Adaptability scale,and valid data were collected and analyzed to test whether career decision self-efficacy could play a mediating role.The result were as follows.(1)There were significant differences in career decision self-efficacy by gender and family residence;there were significant differences in career adaptability by grade level and differences in family residence.(2)High school students’ future time perspective was significantly and positively correlated with career decision self-efficacy and career adaptability,respectively;career decision self-efficacy was significantly and positively correlated with career adaptability.(3)Career decision self-efficacy partially mediates the relationship between future time perspective and career adaptability in high school students.In Study 2,based on Study 1,a career planning group counseling intervention program was designed based on social cognitive career theory and cognitive information processing theory.20 eligible students were screened as subjects in the senior group and divided into an experimental group(10 students)and a control group(10 students)to confirm that there were no differences between the two groups by testing for8 sessions of group counseling for the experimental group and normal self-study for the control group.The members of both groups were collected before and after the intervention and after two months of follow-up data analysis to test the effectiveness of the intervention.The results showed that the experimental group had significantly higher career decision self-efficacy and self-evaluation,information gathering,goal selection and planning dimensions compared to the control group.The level of career adaptability also improved significantly,and the results of the follow-up test and post-interview showed good results at the end.Therefore,it is concluded that career decision self-efficacy group counseling can effectively improve high school students’ career decision self-efficacy and career adaptability.