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How Do Career Development Courses Help Chinese Undergraduate Students Achieve Healthy and Quality Career Development?
Postsecondary institutions worldwide generally provide career development courses or similar courses to better prepare undergraduate students for healthy and quality future careers. Understanding whether these career development courses positively affect students’ career-related outcomes is crucial....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9739443/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36497701 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315620 |
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description | Postsecondary institutions worldwide generally provide career development courses or similar courses to better prepare undergraduate students for healthy and quality future careers. Understanding whether these career development courses positively affect students’ career-related outcomes is crucial. Utilizing survey data collected from a large research university located in the eastern part of China, we found that students who have taken at least one career course exhibited career awareness and career planning abilities that were 0.096 and 0.147 units higher, respectively, than those of students who have not taken career courses, with other variables held constant. More specifically, an additional career course was statistically significantly associated with a 0.099, 0.084, and 0.175 unit increase in students’ career awareness, job search self-efficacy, and career planning ability, respectively. A student’s college major and annual family income seemed to be good predictors for a student’s career awareness, job search self-efficacy, and career-planning ability. Furthermore, the more career courses that a student took, the higher the career awareness, job search self-efficacy, and career planning ability that the student had. With these findings in mind, our study recommends postsecondary stakeholders to leverage such courses to help students better prepare for a healthy and quality career development. |
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spelling | pubmed-97394432022-12-11 How Do Career Development Courses Help Chinese Undergraduate Students Achieve Healthy and Quality Career Development? Zhao, Teng Wu, Jingchao Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Postsecondary institutions worldwide generally provide career development courses or similar courses to better prepare undergraduate students for healthy and quality future careers. Understanding whether these career development courses positively affect students’ career-related outcomes is crucial. Utilizing survey data collected from a large research university located in the eastern part of China, we found that students who have taken at least one career course exhibited career awareness and career planning abilities that were 0.096 and 0.147 units higher, respectively, than those of students who have not taken career courses, with other variables held constant. More specifically, an additional career course was statistically significantly associated with a 0.099, 0.084, and 0.175 unit increase in students’ career awareness, job search self-efficacy, and career planning ability, respectively. A student’s college major and annual family income seemed to be good predictors for a student’s career awareness, job search self-efficacy, and career-planning ability. Furthermore, the more career courses that a student took, the higher the career awareness, job search self-efficacy, and career planning ability that the student had. With these findings in mind, our study recommends postsecondary stakeholders to leverage such courses to help students better prepare for a healthy and quality career development. MDPI 2022-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9739443/ /pubmed/36497701 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315620 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Zhao, Teng Wu, Jingchao How Do Career Development Courses Help Chinese Undergraduate Students Achieve Healthy and Quality Career Development? |
title | How Do Career Development Courses Help Chinese Undergraduate Students Achieve Healthy and Quality Career Development? |
title_full | How Do Career Development Courses Help Chinese Undergraduate Students Achieve Healthy and Quality Career Development? |
title_fullStr | How Do Career Development Courses Help Chinese Undergraduate Students Achieve Healthy and Quality Career Development? |
title_full_unstemmed | How Do Career Development Courses Help Chinese Undergraduate Students Achieve Healthy and Quality Career Development? |
title_short | How Do Career Development Courses Help Chinese Undergraduate Students Achieve Healthy and Quality Career Development? |
title_sort | how do career development courses help chinese undergraduate students achieve healthy and quality career development? |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9739443/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36497701 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315620 |
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