Vocational Identity and Agency of Chinese College Students: Effects of Filial Piety and Implications in Career Education

Balancing family obligations and personal aspirations is crucial for college students in making life decisions.This critical review examined empirical studies on the effects of filial piety on college students’vocational identity and agency.According to identity capital theory,college students need a sense of agency to construct identity consciously and adapt to adulthood.Filial piety may profoundly influence this process as the core value and internalized social structure for the role of being an adult child in a Chinese family.However,no studies have been conducted from the identity capital perspective.This review found that filial piety had direct effects on college students'vocational identity and also indirect effects by shaping specific agency competencies.The impact of filial piety on the agency was more likely to occur through providing normative guidance about adult roles,influencing how college students view family as a supportive resource,and perpetuating parenting experiences.Based on these findings,this article suggested further examining the mediating role of agency between filial piety and identity development,as well as the effects of filial piety on the psychological foundation of agency development.This review suggested enhancing the agency of college students and encouraging reflections on filial piety in career education.

Research on Career Planning Education for College Students

Career planning refers to the process in which an individual establishes career development goals,chooses a career,formulates corresponding education,training,and work plans,and takes necessary actions to achieve career goals while taking into account personal qualities and the external environment.This study analyzes the status quo and problems of career planning among college students and puts forward specific strategies to improve the career planning of college students.

Exploration and Analysis of the Improvement Path of College Students’Employment Ability Under the Concept of Career Planning

In the face of the fierce environment of employment,the employment of college students is a hot topic in all walks of life.The concept of career planning plays an important role in promoting the employability of college students.The career planning course for college students is a course generally offered by colleges and universities,which can help college students to better determine their employment goal and direction,and lay a solid foundation for the improvement of the employment rate of Chinese college students.This paper analyzes the reasons for the difficult employment of college graduates,puts forward the application value of career planning education in the improvement of college students’employability,points out the reasons for the difficulties of college students’employment,and makes targeted measures to improve the employability of college students under the concept of college students’career planning.

The Relationship between Academic Performance, Achievement Motivation and Career Adaptability of Chinese High School Students

Given the importance of career adaptability to personal career and success,there is growing interest in how to cultivate youth's career adaptability in schools.This study explores the predictors of career adaptability and examines the mediating role of academic performance in the relationship between achievement motivation and career adaptability.Using the survey data of 147 Chinese high school students,a series of regression models find that academic motivation and academic performance have significant effects on career adaptability,as well as its four dimensions namely career concern,career control,career curiosity,and career confidence.Structural equation modeling further shows that achievement motivation can not only directly affect career adaptability,but also indirectly affect career adaptability through academic performance after controlling for the effects of gender,location,parent education,and family social and economic status.Research limitations and practical implications are finally discussed.

Group training on the improvement of college students'career decision-making self-efficacy

A group training was conducted on 17 college students to improve their career decision-making self-efficacy (CDMSE). The result showed that there was significant difference between the pre-test and the post-test for the experimental group (n = 17), whereas no significant difference was found between the pre-test and the post- test for the control group (n = 17). In the pre-test, there was no significant difference between the experimental group and the control group, and obvious difference between the two groups was found in the post-test. This indicated that the group training was effective on improving the CDMSE of the college students whose scores of CDMSE were below 27% point of the total students.

Effects of attribution retraining on the perceived career barriers of undergraduate nursing students

Background/purpose:To evaluate the effects of attribution retraining on the perceived career barriers of undergraduate nursing students and to foster positive attributional styles.Methods:Ninety-four undergraduate nursing students were recruited and randomly divided into two groups:the attribution retraining group and the control group.All students were assessed by the perceived career barriers inventory before and after the eight-week study.Results:Attribution retraining significantly influenced the students'perceived career barriers.The mean scores of vocational knowledge,professional knowledge,and social ability of the experimental group were significantly reduced compared to the control group(p<0.05).Conclusion:Attribution retraining provides opportunities for improving the undergraduate nursing students'vocational knowledge,professional knowledge,and social ability.Attribution retraining should be encouraged in undergraduate nursing programs in order to reduce the nursing shortage in China's Mainland.

Predicament of College Students with Economic Difficulties in Career Development and Assistance Strategies

College students with economic difficulties are the vulnerable groups who are easy to fall into the predicament of career development. They are mainly characterized as weak career awareness,unclear self-awareness,lack of social resources,and poor comprehensive quality. This paper comprehensively analyzed the predicament of college students and causes. On the basis of causes,it came up with strategies including establishing a perfect whole-process education mechanism,strengthening psychological health and ideological and political education,actively expanding social practice internship platform,and vigorously cultivating employment competitiveness,so as to help students with economic difficulties to get out of their predicament and realize sustainable and comprehensive career development.

Solutions to Rural College Students' Psychological Plight in Career Choice Based on Social Learning Theory:A Case Study of Northwest A&F University

The rural college students are facing psychological plight in their career choice.The social learning theory can use the triadic theory of learning to set reasonable career choice goals,the observational learning theory can be employed to establish a correct outlook on career choice,and the self-efficacy theory can be adopted to make up for the deficiencies in career choice.

Translational research in early neuroscience careers of high school students

Essentially, the knowledge of science alone offers little utility. With-out the ability to investigate, apply and communicate, science serves no purpose. That is not to undermine the importance of scientific knowledge, but there currently exists a major flaw in our high school educational system that inhibits meaningful learning experiences for most students. Application of science in local high schools is largely directed at improving performance on multiple-choice exams. Standardized tests taken by high school students are slowly progressing,

Research on the Coupling Between the Career Identity of Normal School Students and the Construction of Ideological and Political Education in Primary and Secondary Schools

Normal school students are a special group,who moonlight as teenagers of the era and the future teachers.They are classified as receivers and disseminators of education.The special identity of normal school students dictates that they are possessed of extraordinary career identity which is closely coupled with work related to ideological and political education in primary and secondary schools.It is the career identity of normal school students that provides ideological and political education in primary and secondary schools with consistency,stability,high efficiency and standardization.

Need Saliency and Academic Behavior of Technical Students in India: Implications for Career Sustaining Competences

In the current scenario of rapid expansion of higher education, it becomesimperative to study the dynamic factors underlying quality education,student motivation and learning outcomes. Most of the literature availableas on date are predominantly based on western studies, where theindividual’s personal achievement, autonomy, control, power are consideredto be most important. But these western models often influenced by theirindividualistic philosophy and cultural values are quite inapplicable forpluralistic Indian society, where we believe in collaboration and teamwork.Rare attempts have been made to develop an indigenous model to measurethese attributes in our society. The present study is first of its kind to assessthe salient and non-salient needs of technical students pursuing their studiesin India. Authors have identified measures of the students’ engagement invarious academic, co-curricular activities and their performance outcomes.A sample of Four-hundred and Sixty-five (N=465) engineering/sciencestudents were collected through purposive sampling exclusively from IITKharagpur , a premier technical institute in eastern India where studentsacross the country got selected and joined on merit basis, through thenational level joint entrance examination for Engineering and Science, thetoughest examination in the country, known as IIT-JEE. Career implicationsare discussed in light of the major findings.

An Investigation of Medical Students’ Cognition on the Doctor-Patient Relationship and Their Career Choice

Objective:To investigate medical students’cognition on the doctor-patient relationship and its influence on their career choice as well as to provide reference for medical education and communication education.Methods:A self-compiled questionnaire survey was carried out at a medical university in W city,and descriptive statistics as well as chi-square tests were conducted.Results:There were significant differences in medical students’cognition of doctor-patient relationship among different genders,registered residence,only-child status,whose parents are working in the medical field,and their own evaluation of the major(p<0.05);the different cognitions of doctor-patient relationship have a significant influence on medical students’career choice.Conclusion:Medical students’vocational cognition and educational guidance should be strengthened,hospital information should be open and transparent,media reporting of medical events should be standardized,and a doctor-patient conflict regulation mechanism should be established.

Research progress on career anxiety and influencing factors of nursing college students under the background of COVID-19

As the social environment keeps changing college students'employment anxiety increases rather than decreases,the mental health of college students during the new crown epidemic has attracted the attention of the state and universities.Through literature review,we analyzed the concept,measurement tools,and influencing factors of employment anxiety in the context of the new crown epidemic,aiming to propose measures and theoretical basis for improving career planning of nursing college students in the future,improving the quality of nursing talent training and alleviating employment anxiety of nursing college students in colleges and universities.

父母职业观念对大学生职业发展的影响

为了解父母职业观念对大学生职业发展的影响,自编职业观调查问卷开展调研,采用相关性分析、回归分析等方法考察其影响作用。结果显示,大学生职业观整体发展状况良好,大学生父母职业观各维度与其子女职业观各维度的相关性显著,父母职业观维度可有效预测子女职业认知39.6%,职业道德36.3%,职业情感36.9%,职业评价39.7%与职业理想29.4%的变异率。父母应树立正确的家庭教育理念,引导子女建立正确的职业观,对子女抱以理性的职业期望。此外,学校、社区等也应共同努力,实现家庭教育与学校教育的融合发展,营造良好的社区教育环境,共同为大学生职业发展提供正向引导。