A Study On The Self - Efficacy And Career Implicit And Explicit Attitude Of Graduates

The career decision-making is an important issue which this year’s graduates have to face while they jump from the campus into the society. When it comes to the new century, the employment situation of our country becomes more severe. Except the external factors of education, society and family, this year’s graduates’ psychological states, which are occasionally paid attention to by the college vocational counsel, should be more valued. It is of key importance for the research in career psychology field and the improvement of the employment situation of our country to inspect this year’s graduates’ psychological states and the influence factors. Career decision-making self-efficacy means the self-assessment of the ability for fulfilling tasks related to the career decision-making. The self-efficacy, which especially has an effect on the career decision-making attitude, puts a great role in the career decision-making and career planning territory.This research, which mainly aimed at Sha’anxi normal university bachelor and master graduates, investigated the current situation of this year’s graduates’career decision-making self-efficacy, career decision-making implicit and explicit attitude by questionnaire survey(including CDMSE-SF and self-compiled this year’s graduates’ career decision-making explicit attitude questionnaire), experimentation(The Go/No-Go Association Test, GNAT) and interviewing method, then discussed the relationship of career decision-making self-efficacy and career decision-making explicit attitude and the relationship of career decision-making implicit and explicit attitude. The major findings were follows:1. Self-compiled this year’s graduates’ career decision-making explicit attitude questionnaire included three factors:the behavior disposition, the cognitive state and the negative emotion in job hunting, whose results had almost no difference to forefathers’research;2. This year’s graduates had low scores of the career decision-making self-efficacy and there was no significant difference in every career decision-making self-efficacy’s dimension among genders, majors and different identities, except that there was gender difference on problem solving dimension(p<0.05);3. This year’s graduates had low level in the career decision-making explicit attitudes and there was no significant difference in the human demography variables, which proved this year’s graduates held evasive and anxious mentality facing the job hunting;4. There existed a significantly positive correlation between career decision-making self-efficacy and career decision-making explicit attitude, the former had prominent influence in the formation of the latter;5. This year’s graduates’ career decision-making explicit attitudes could forecast their tendency in job hunting behavior;6. This year’s graduates also had low level career decision-making implicit attitudes and there existed a positive direction but low implicit-explicit correspondence (not significantly) between career decision-making implicit and explicit attitude, which reflected their separate relation.