A Study On Perceived Employment Barrier Of Higher Vocational College Students And Its Predictive Model

Perceived employment barrier is the prediction of the employment obstacle that an individual believes currently exists or may be encountered in the future. At present, perceived employment barrier of college students has garnered the attention and examination of many researchers. But there is a lack of research on the special college students of higher vocational college students. Therefore, it has theoretical and practice meaning to study perceived employment barrier from the view of higher vocational college students. Because it not only can enrich the theoretical research of the perceived employment barrier, at the same time can provide theoretical basis for the study of the vocational guidance in higher vocational colleges, and can provide a new breakthrough point to higher vocational college’s career mental health counselors. So that the research can increase the effectiveness of vocational guidance in higher vocational colleges, promote the development of higher vocational college’s career guidance, better solve the employment problems, and fundamentally solve the problem of higher vocational students’ employment.Based on previous literature, combined with the characteristics of higher vocational college students and the structure of perceived employment barriers, research one revised the “Perceived Employment Barriers of Undergraduates Questionnaire”. Through exploratory factor analysis of the data collected from the questionnaire, the structure of the revised questionnaire was constructed. and then, through the confirmatory analysis the structure validity of the revised questionnaire was examined. The formal questionnaire was developed. By using the questionnaire, research two investigates the characteristics of the higher vocational college students’ perceived career barriers. Finally, based on the existing research results about perceived career barriers, the influential factors are extracted and corresponding forecast model is built. Summarizing all the research results, the following conclusion is drawn.(1)The perceived employment barrier of undergraduates is a six-factor model. It contains vocational knowledge, social skill, professional skill, competition on employment, family background, and attitude of relatives. The revised questionnaire used in this research possesses high reliability and efficiency, meets the request of psychological measure. Thus it can be used as investigate tool for the research of higher vocational college students’ perceived employment barriers.(2)The main barriers higher vocational college students perceived are competitive pressures on the job market and the lack of professional knowledge. The barriers higher vocational college students perceived increased first, and then decreased. The higher vocational college students in second grade perceived largest barriers. Significant gender differences were found in higher vocational college students’ perceived employment barriers. The female perceived more barriers. There are no significant difference in aspects of students’ hometown, parents’ vocation, and single-child or not.(3)Resilience, career decision-making self-efficacy, work values, attribution style, father’s refused, and mother’s over protection correlated significantly with higher vocational college students’ perceived barriers. Resilience, career decision-making self-efficacy, work values, attribution style, father’s refused, and mother’s over protection have direct effect on higher vocational college students’ perceived barriers, in which father’s refused and mother’s over protection are the positive effects, resilience, career decision-making self-efficacy, work values, and attribution style are the negative effects. Resilience, work values and attribution style have indirect effects on higher vocational college students’ perceived employment barriers through career decision-making self-efficacy. The most powerful predictive factor in model is career decision-making self-efficacy.