OCCUPATION AND HEALTH ›› 2026, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (22): 3132-3137.

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Influence of college students' future work self on career adaptability and the role of career exploration,learning investment and career mission

RAN Juan, JI Jing(), HE Yue, ZHAO Dan, CHEN Shanshan, DU Guohui   

  1. School of Public HealthShaanxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,XianyangShaanxi 712046, China
  • Received:2025-10-09 Revised:2025-12-02 Online:2026-11-15 Published:2026-09-20
  • Contact: JI Jing,E-mail:362165754@qq.com

Abstract:

Objective To understand the relationship between future work self,career adaptability,learning engagement,career exploration,and career mission sense,and to examine the chain mediated effect of learning engagement and career exploration,as well as the moderating role of career mission sense in the chain mediation of the impact of future work self on college students' career adaptability. Methods From April to July 2023,a random sampling method was used to conduct a questionnaire survey among college students from six universities in Shaanxi Province. The questionnaire included future job self-clearness scale,career adaptation scale,career exploration scale,learning engagement scale,and career mission scale,and the data were analyzed. Results The total score of the future work self of 1 008 college students in Shaanxi Province was (18.71±4.51)points,the total score of career exploration was (42.52±8.31)points,the total score of learning engagement was (73.40±16.02)points,the total score of career mission was (40.57±6.73)points,and the total score of career adaptability was (90.47±11.83)points.There were pairwise correlations between college students' future work self,career exploration,learning engagement,career mission and career adaptability(r=0.501,0.596,0.602,0.579,all P<0.01). The independent mediation effects and chain mediation effects of career exploration and learning engagement on the impact of future work self on college students' career adaptability were significant(β=0.146,0.124,0.043,all P<0.01). Career mission positively moderated the impact of career exploration on learning engagement(β=0.083,P<0.01). Conclusion Future work self has a significant positive predictive effect on career adaptability.The future work self can indirectly affect career adaptability through career exploration and learning engagement,and can also affect career adaptability through the chain mediation of "career exploration-learning engagement",in which career mission has a significant moderating effect. The government,schools,and families can take active measures from the dimensions of "future work self-career exploration-learning engagement-career adaptability" to better improve the career adaptability of college students and promote social progress and development

Key words: Career adaptability, Future work self, Learning engagement, Career exploration, Sense of career mission, Mediating effect, Moderating effect

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