The Structural Relationship among Career-Related Mentoring, Ambiguity Tolerance, and Job Search Effort and Behavior of Korean College Students

Autor: Yangyi Kwon, Jhong Yun (Joy) Kim, Andrew Keane
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Mediation (statistics)
Sobel test
Structure analysis
lcsh:TJ807-830
Geography
Planning and Development
Applied psychology
education
lcsh:Renewable energy sources
050109 social psychology
Management
Monitoring
Policy and Law
Ambiguity tolerance
Nonprobability sampling
ambiguity tolerance
0502 economics and business
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
job search behavior
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
career-related mentoring
Empirical evidence
lcsh:Environmental sciences
lcsh:GE1-350
ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION
Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment
lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants
05 social sciences
Building and Construction
lcsh:TD194-195
job search effort
Correlation analysis
Program Design Language
Psychology
050203 business & management
Zdroj: Sustainability
Volume 12
Issue 21
Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 8834, p 8834 (2020)
ISSN: 2071-1050
DOI: 10.3390/su12218834
Popis: Although a substantial body of mentoring research has been conducted on students attending four-year colleges, the interplay of career-related mentoring, ambiguity tolerance, and job search effort and behavior has not been seriously investigated. Therefore, we examined the relationship between career-related mentoring and ambiguity tolerance, as well as job search effort and behavior, for the purpose of understanding how to better assist undergraduate college students achieve preliminary job search success. Data were collected via pencil surveys administered to 300 undergraduate students selected by purposive sampling from four colleges in Seoul, Korea. Correlation analysis and covariance structure analysis were conducted to examine the relationships between variables. A Sobel test was also conducted to check the mediation effect of the model. Results were consistent with our hypotheses and showed that there was a significant, indirect, positive effect of career-related mentoring on job search effort and behavior, mediated through ambiguity tolerance. Our study contributes to career-related mentoring and job search research by providing empirical evidence supporting the results. It has implications for universities, mentoring program design, and career guidance professionals.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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