Studies On Perceived Employment Barriers Of Higher Vocational College Students And The Relationship Among Perceived Employment Barriers, Career Decision-making Self-efficacy And Career Decision-making Difficulties

For vocational guidance effective to higher vocational college students, you mustunderstand their professional psychology firstly. Therefore, understanding the status of perceivedemployment barriers, and to explore its relationship with career decision-making difficulties andcareer decision-making self-efficacy, it is helpful for career development of vocational studentsto make specific recommendations，and vocational school administrators to provide vocationalcareer management information. The research can promote the diversification of vocationalguidance, enrich the theory of vocational guidance, and achieve personal career development andvocational school development a win-win.We use the measurement and questionnaire method to research the status of perceivedemployment barriers, and to explore its relationship with career decision-making difficulties andcareer decision-making self-efficacy. A total of412higher vocational college students, chosenrandomly from colleges and universities in Hebei, Tianjin, Fujian, Zhejiang participated in thisstudy. The instruments include the" Career Decision Scale (CDS)", revised by Niu Yuanyuan,the “The perceived employment barriers of undergraduates”,amended by Wu Xuemei, and the“career decision–making questionnaire”, authoried by Zhao Fengxiang from the College ofScience, Zhejiang University. The main findings are as follows:（1）The differences of perceived career barriers between higher vocational college studentsand undergraduates were not significant on a whole. But higher vocational college studentsperceived fewer obstacles significantly on the factor of professional level, and more obstacles oncompetition. The main obstacles vocational students perceived were the perceived competitionon employment when looking for a job.The differences of perceived career barriers in some factors were significant, highervocational college students perceived more obstacles significantly on the factor of competitionon employment than relatives attitude, the factor of relatives attitude were more obstaclessignificantly than family background and social ability, the factors of social ability andprofessional level were fewer obstacles significantly than others.（2）The higher vocational college students’ perceived employment barriers have significantdifferences in grade, gender, only-one-child family, and father’s and mother’s educationbackground. The show are, the sophomore perceived more obstacles significantly than freshmenand the third year students’. The female perceived more obstacles. Single-child higher vocationalcollege students perceived fewer obstacles significant differences of perceived career barrierswere found in the aspect of the parent’s education background. The students whose parents only junior high school diplomas perceive more barriers.（3）There are significant negative correlation between the perceived employment barriersand the career decision–making self–efficacy, positive correlation with career decision-makingdifficulties. To a certain extent, the perceived employment barriers predict the careerdecision–making difficulties.（4）Career decision-making self-efficacy makes part intermediary efficiency on theinfluence which perceived employment barriers makes on the career decision-makingdifficulties.