The Current Situation And Relevant Study On The Career Decision-making Self-efficacy, Career Barriers And Coping Strategies For Graduate Students

Recently, with the establishment of the open flexible employment system, the independence of university students' in their career choice grow in a notable pace. In view of this situation, all graduates will face this inevitable question: how to choose a career suitable for oneself since the demands of the employment market are varied and the capability of each student is different. So different from the past, universities should not only teach knowledge and learning ability to their students, but also give some guidance in their career-decision making in order to enhance their ability in making rational decision.The problem is how to help them make satisfactory decision. The authorities should have some ideas about the current situation of their vocational development, and basing on this understanding, go on to analyze all the possible barriers they will be confronted with in future. Only in this way, the authorities could make sure what can be improved or enforced. So in career counseling, one of the major tasks of the authorities is to develop and increase student's ability of career-decision making. Holding this belief, this paper makes some research on the career decision-making self-efficacy, career barriers and coping strategies to find out some testing and diagnostic methods. The author thinks this kind of research has important theoretical and practical sense.This research collects the materials by making questionnaire. Those materials are analyzed from the following aspects: factors analysis, reliability analysis, descriptive distribution, T-test analysis, Pearson's correlation and multiple regression analysis. The conclusions derived are set as follows:1 .Gender, major (Arts or Science and Engineering), the nature of the university( public or private), working experience and career tutoring experience, those elements have dominant influence on Career decision-making self-efficacy. Among those elements, major and the nature of the university also have notable influence on career barriers, and the last three elements have notable influence on coping strategies.2.The gross scale and the sub-scale of the career decision-making self-efficacy increase as those two scales of career barriers decrease while the relationship with the scales of coping strategies is on the contrary. The scales of career barriers increase with the increase of the scales of coping strategies (with the exception of the element seeking support).3.Four elements in the career decision-making self-efficacy scale, that is, problem resolution, of information collection, self evaluation and plan making, together with two elements in the career barriers scale, that is, the career direction and personality, can efficiently forecast the variation instudent's career decision-making. Those six elements together can predict 43.4% variation, while the element "problem resolution" itself can predict 28.9%, which shows that it is the main element in making prediction.