Research On College Students' Career Adaptability

Career adaptability refers to individuals'abilities to keep balance with the changes of career roles, and is viewed as a key ability for one's career success in the rapidly changing modern society. It has become a new theoretic growing point in the foreign field of career psychology in recent years. First of all, based on the related summary of the home and aboard studies on career adaptability, this study reviews the studies of the origins, conceptual connotation, theoretical construction and empirical studies of career adaptability so that its abundant theoretical connotation and practical value can be realized and understood; and then aimed at the existing problems of the current studies of career adaptability, based on the status of contemporary college students'career development as well as the new progress of career psychology research, the study has conducted a quite comprehensive and systematic exploration research with the college students'career adaptability, which using the different research orientations such as trait research, correlation research and experimental research and many kinds of research method. More precisely, first, based on the past viewpoint of the theoretical construction of career adaptability and combined the open style investigation on Chinese college students, this study further clarifies the theoretical construction of Chinese college students'career adaptability, and then according to it, the study draws up a psychometric measurement tool that also fit the Chinese cultural context by the technology of EFA and CFA; second, the study has comprehensively and systematically investigated the developmental status and characteristics of Chinese college students'career adaptability with the scale; third, the study has also introduced other two research hot topics in career psychology that are perception of career barriers and life satisfaction to discuss the relations between college students'career adaptability and their perception of career barriers and life satisfaction, and then constructed the influence effect model of the college students'career adaptability; Finally, combined the theory of cognition information processing, the study has discussed the cognition processing characteristics of the college student's with different level of career adaptability on the words that related career. In conclusion, the goal of this study is that through the above systematic researches, impels the studies of Chinese college students'career psychology, and then provides some beneficial enlightenments for raising the college students'career adaptability.The dissertation is divided into five parts, conducts eight studies on structural model, developmental characteristics and correlative factors of college students" career adaptability, as well as the cognition processing characteristics of the college students with different level on career adaptability. Based on the above-mentioned studies, we draw conclusions as follows:1. Chinese college students'career adaptability is a multi-dimensional hierarchical system, consisting of career concern, career control, career curiosity, career confidence, career adjustment and career interpersonal six factors; According to the construct, we draw up a high reliability and validity scale of college students'career adaptability which can be used to appraise college students'career adaptability.2. Currently, the developmental level of Chinese college students'career adaptability is little higher than the middle level, but still not optimistic that the students get lower scores on the factors of career concern, career control and career curiosity. While, there are significant differences among students'sex, grade, family background, school background and the quantity of social practice. More precisely, at sex, the male college students get significant higher scores on career adaptability than the female students. At grade, the college students'career adaptability could change along their grades that dropping along with the grade ascension and at the third year recovered a little, but at the fourth year dropped again. At family background, first, the college students who from the family having the highest and the lowest socioeconomic status would develop a little better on career adaptability, but the students who from the family having middle socioeconomic status would develop worse; second, there is no significant difference between college students from city and college students from county; third, at the parenting style, overall, the college students under the democratic parenting style get highest scores on career adaptability, the second is under the authoritarian parenting style, and the lowest is under the doting and permissive parenting style. At school background, first, the college students of Vocational College get highest scores on career adaptability, and the lowest is the students of 211 College and independent college. Second, at major, overall, the students majored in arts get significant higher scores on career adaptability than the students majored in liberal arts and science and engineering. At the quantity of social practice, the students who participated in more social practice, their career adaptability developed better.3. There is significant negative correlation between college students'career adaptability and perception of career barriers; after canonical correlation analysis, the study finds that career adaptability may be one reason of the affections of perception of career barriers, and also finds that the students who perceived more career barriers, their career adaptability would develop worse. This indicates that college students'perception of career barriers could restrict their development of career adaptability. Moreover, this study also has investigated college students'perception of career barriers. The results show that: generally speaking, the scores of most college students'perception of career barriers are not too high, but at the sources of career barriers, they regard the insufficiency of school education as the most important factor that restricted their career development; and while there are significant differences among their sex, grade, school type and major except the socioeconomic status and regions on perception of career barriers.4. There is significant positive correlation between college students" career adaptability and life satisfaction; after canonical correlation analysis, this study finds that life satisfaction may be one reason of the effections of career adaptability, and also finds that the students who having higher career adaptability, their life satisfaction would be better. This indicates that college students'career adaptability could improve their life satisfaction. Moreover, this study also has investigated college students'life satisfaction. The results show that:generally speaking, the scores of most college students" life satisfaction are not too high, and while there are not significant differences among their sex, school type, major, socioeconomic status and regions except the grade on life satisfaction.5. College students'perception of career barriers could retrict their life satisfaction, and their career adaptability could improve their life satisfaction. Further, this study finds that career adaptability partly mediates the relation between perception of career barriers and life satisfaction; and also regulates their relation that the restriction of perception of career barriers to life satisfaction is more obvious in the group of lower career adaptability than the higher group.6. College students with different career adaptability developmental levels have corresponding cognitive processing preference towards coding and recollection of career information. Different career adaptability schemata organize and guide cognitive processing of corresponding career information.