The Preliminary Development And Application Of Career Self-Efficacy Questionnaire For Ordinary Civil Servant

Career self-efficacy is the application of self-efficacy in vocational area, which means one's subjective evaluation, conviction and confidence of ability that one needs for accomplishing certain difficult tasks or activities related with career in special vocational area.Taking ordinary civil servant whose administration-grade are below 7 as subjects, complying the measurement rules of career self-efficacy strictly, the present study developed relevant questionnaire, measured the present situation and characteristics of ordinary civil servants' career self-efficacy by exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis on the basis of theoretical analysis and interview. And finally, the article discussed the relationship between career self-efficacy, job burnout and work stress, especially the modulatory function of career self-efficacy, in an attempt to offer some advice for interrelated research of the above-mentioned three objects.The results indicated (1)The ordinary civil servants' career self-efficacy consisted of 6 factors, which were: innovation efficacy, problem solving efficacy, assistant management efficacy, relationship efficacy, document writing and disposing efficacy, policy and theory efficacy. The self-made questionnaire was of better validity and reliability, and could be used to access ordinary civil servants' career self-efficacy in China. (2)The whole level of career self-efficacy among ordinary civil servants was above the middle, and the development degree of different individuals is basically balanceable, but there existed difference in dimensionalities. The sequence from high to low was relationship efficacy, policy and theory efficacy, assistant management efficacy, document writing and disposing efficacy, innovation efficacy, and problem solving efficacy. (3)The significant gender differences of ordinary civil servants' career self-efficacy were demonstrated. Career self-efficacy of male was respectively higher than those of female. There were distinct differences in age, job fixed number of year, level of principalship. Generally, with the development of those variables, ordinary civil servants' career self-efficacy scores showed a higher developmental trend. (4) The predictability of career self-efficacy united with work stress aiming to job burnout was much better than those of anyone alone. Among them, the career self-efficacy could alleviate burnout level of job, while the work stress turned worse it. Concretely speak, there were three paths influencing the three respects of job burnout (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, diminished personal accomplishment). Firstly, work responsibility stress, work character stress and work foreground stress affected job burnout straightly; secondly, relationship efficacy, document writing and disposing efficacy affected job burnout directly; thirdly, the before-mentioned three dimensionalities of work stress influenced job burnout indirectly through the above two dimensionalities of career self-efficacy. (5) Career self-efficacy was the agency between work stress and job burnout, under the same level of work stress, one with high career self-efficacy would feel less burnout than those who have low career self-efficacy. And this kind of modulatory function of career self-efficacy appeared more valid when one was placed in middle or low work stress situation. (6)We should adopt relevant selecting, training and assessing steps according to the present situation, characteristics, relationship with job burnout and work stress of ordinary civil servants' career self-efficacy.