From the three-dimensional perspective of college students' school, family and themselves, explore the mechanism of the influence of proactive personality on career exploration

Abstract

Abstract Career exploration, as the antecedent variable of college student's career choice and employment, guides for the construction of their career. Based on the theory of social cognitive career, this study explores the formation mechanism of career exploration from three aspects: personality, family and university. Through a multi-stage investigation of 980 college students from 16 colleges and universities on Chinese mainland, it is found that: (1) Proactive personality positively affects career exploration; (2) College students' self-efficacy plays a mediating role between proactive personality and career exploration; (3) Teacher support and parental support strengthen the positive effect between self-efficacy and career exploration; (4) Both teacher support and parental support positively moderate the indirect influence of proactive personality on career exploration through self-efficacy. This study tries to provide practical guidance for college students to engage in career exploration and career construction from a pluralistic perspective.