The Relationships Among College Students' Decision-making Style, Self-management Strategies, Clarity Of Job Searching And Career Decision-making

At present, China is in the critical stage of building the Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, because of the Increase efficiency by downsizing and laid-off caused by the low levels of economic development, economic reform and industrial restructuring , coupled with China's huge population, the employment situation is fairly grim. In addition, universities continuous enrollment also led to the rapid growth in the number of graduates in recent years, higher education changes from the "elite" to the "popular" . Various reasons spur college's employment situation is not optimistic, more and more employment problems of the graduates emerged. Meanwhile, the market need the individuals choose their own jobs, how to choose to combine their personal characteristics to the employment or to change the employment? We have to seriously consider. Therefore, the issue of career decision-making is particularly critical.In this study, we starting from four dimensions: personality dimensions ( decision-making style ), self-regulation dimensions (self-management strategies), cognitive dimensions (clarity of job searching), and behavioral (career decision-making difficulties), to make more systematic analysis of the current situation of students in the career decision-making.The survey take place in Jinan ,Shandong Province, in five universities we put out 800 questionnaires and returned 780, eliminate 20 incomplete answers, a total of 760 valid questionnaires were received. Rate was 95%. The questionnaires we used in this study include: general decision-making style scale (GDMS), SOC questionnaire, clarity of career decision-making questionnaire, students career decision-making difficulties (CDDQ) questionnaire. We used the SPSS, Amos7.0 to analyze the data. Results of the study are as follows:1. The students'decision-making style and clarity of job searching has no significant difference on Gender, grade, family residence, and whether the parents involved in their decision-making.2. In the study of self-management strategies, grade factor only make significant differences in the sophomore and junior students on the choice of compensation strategies; whether being singleton only make significant differences on the Loss Based Strategy(LBS); whether the parents involved in their decision-making only make significant differences on the Optimize strategy.3. Urban and rural students make significant differences on all the three dimensions included in Career Decision-making Difficulties; whether being singleton and whether the parents involved in their decision-making make significant differences on the dimension of information exploration.4. Students'decision-making style (personality dimension) indirectly affect the career decision-making difficulties (behavioral dimension) through self-management strategies (self-control dimension) and clarity of job searching (cognitive dimension), meanwhile, the different use of self-management strategy affect their clarity of job searching.