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Precarious Employment and Subjective Career Success During the School-to-Work Transition

PURPOSE: The transition from school to work is an important stage in the career development of university students, and precarious employment during this period can significantly impact their early career success. In today’s unstable employment environment, this study examines how employment instabi...

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Autores principales: Zhong, Haiyan, Xu, Jingbo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10314769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37396406
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S418017
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description PURPOSE: The transition from school to work is an important stage in the career development of university students, and precarious employment during this period can significantly impact their early career success. In today’s unstable employment environment, this study examines how employment instability during the transition from school to work directly and indirectly affects college students’ subjective career success. This contributes to a thorough understanding of this transitional period and provides university students with the necessary resources to cope with a smooth transition from school to work. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We recruited senior students at five universities in Harbin, China, from May to July 2022. After obtaining participants’ consent, questionnaires were distributed via social media, resulting in 967 valid questionnaires. Based on this sample, we examined the chain mediating effect of financial stress and occupational self-efficacy in the association between precarious employment and career success and the moderating effect of employability. RESULTS: The study found that precarious employment hurts career success and can also affect career success by increasing financial stress and decreasing occupational self-efficacy among college students. At the same time, financial stress can also decrease students’ self-efficacy. Finally, employability can reduce the adverse effects of precarious employment on career success and occupational self-efficacy. CONCLUSION: The link between employment instability and subjective career success during the transition from school to work has been demonstrated for university students. Employment instability not only increases college students’ financial stress but also reduces career self-efficacy, which in turn affects college students’ perceptions of early subjective career success. Importantly, employability plays a positive role in the smooth school-to-work transition and subjective career success of university students.
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spelling pubmed-103147692023-07-02 Precarious Employment and Subjective Career Success During the School-to-Work Transition Zhong, Haiyan Xu, Jingbo Psychol Res Behav Manag Original Research PURPOSE: The transition from school to work is an important stage in the career development of university students, and precarious employment during this period can significantly impact their early career success. In today’s unstable employment environment, this study examines how employment instability during the transition from school to work directly and indirectly affects college students’ subjective career success. This contributes to a thorough understanding of this transitional period and provides university students with the necessary resources to cope with a smooth transition from school to work. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We recruited senior students at five universities in Harbin, China, from May to July 2022. After obtaining participants’ consent, questionnaires were distributed via social media, resulting in 967 valid questionnaires. Based on this sample, we examined the chain mediating effect of financial stress and occupational self-efficacy in the association between precarious employment and career success and the moderating effect of employability. RESULTS: The study found that precarious employment hurts career success and can also affect career success by increasing financial stress and decreasing occupational self-efficacy among college students. At the same time, financial stress can also decrease students’ self-efficacy. Finally, employability can reduce the adverse effects of precarious employment on career success and occupational self-efficacy. CONCLUSION: The link between employment instability and subjective career success during the transition from school to work has been demonstrated for university students. Employment instability not only increases college students’ financial stress but also reduces career self-efficacy, which in turn affects college students’ perceptions of early subjective career success. Importantly, employability plays a positive role in the smooth school-to-work transition and subjective career success of university students. Dove 2023-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10314769/ /pubmed/37396406 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S418017 Text en © 2023 Zhong and Xu. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
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