Psychological Development and Education ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (1): 37-44.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2017.01.05

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The Effect of Calling on Employability of College students: The Mediating Role of Job Searching Clarity and Job Searching Self-efficacy

YE Baojuan, ZHENG Qing, DONG Shenghong, FANG Xiaoting, LIU Linlin   

  1. School of Psychology, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022
  • Online:2017-01-15 Published:2017-01-15

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Abstract: To explore how calling influences employability of college students, 802 college students were recruited in this study to complete calling questionnaire, job searching clarity questionnaire, job searching self-efficacy questionnaire and employability questionnaire. The results indicated that:(1) Job searching clarity mediated the effect of calling on college students' employability; (2)Job searching self-efficacy mediated the effect of job searching clarity on college students' employability; (3) Job searching self-efficacy mediated the effect of calling on college students' employability. In conclusion, job searching clarity and job searching self-efficacy played a chain mediation effect between calling and college students' employability.

Key words: calling, job searching clarity, job searching self-efficacy, employability

CLC Number: 

  • B844

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