Investigation On Employment Confidence Of Poor Students In Higher Vocational Colleges And Study On Group Intervention

In face of job-seeking and employment issues,poverty-stricken graduates from higher vocational schools usually suffer low confidence because of a variety of reasons,which may eventually affect their job seeking and employment quality.Current literature and studies mostly focus on the cause and remedy to the self-inferiority mentality of college students including higher vocational schools,while few are devoted to the study,and especially the empirical study of how to improve the self-confidence of poor graduates from higher vocational schools.This research,after coming to understand the employment confidence among poverty-stricken higher vocational students,verified how self-evaluation and social support influence their assessment and confidence of the capabilities they need to complete each job task.By selecting some poor students of low employment confidence,the research provided them with group counseling intervention to improve their employment confidence and at the same time verify the validity of the designed group-counseling scheme.This research took 277 higher vocational students from Lanzhou Vocational Technical College(LVTC)as the study subjects,including 158 poverty-stricken students meeting LVTC's poverty standards and another 119 non-poor students.By use of Personal Evaluation Scale,Social Support Scale,Self-efficacy Scale in Career Decision to examine the enrolled students,we analyzed how self-evaluation and social support influence their assessment and confidence of the capabilities they need to complete each job task.Besides,we also compared their differences with non-poor students.These attempts provide theoretical basis and statistical supports for performing group intervention to improve the employment self-confidence among higher vocational students by shaping objective and reasonable personal evaluation and shoring up social support level.Then,we recruited respondents by voluntary registration and selected 24poverty-stricken students from LVTC.After separating them into the experiment group and the control group,we provided eight times of group-counseling intervention to the 12 members in the experiment group.The intervention was conducted twice each week and each intervention lasted 120 minutes.By the combination of scale evaluation and process evaluation,qualitative methods and quantitative methods,we managed to assess the results of our group-counselingintervention.The conclusions of this research are as follows:(1)Compared with their peers of better economic status,impoverished students from higher vocational schools lack objective and reasonable evaluation of themselves,receive less social supports,and suffer low self-efficacy in career decision as well as inadequate self-confidence in employment.(2)The objectivity and reasonability of self-evaluation and the level of social supports can affect the self-efficacy of career decision among poverty-stricken students from higher vocational schools.Here,Self-efficacy refers to the self-confidence in the necessary capabilities required by every job task in career decision.(3)The group-counseling activities for poverty-stricken students organized in this research can effectively improve their self-confidence in employment.(4)The scheme of group-counseling activities designed and implemented to improve the employment confidence among poverty-stricken students is practically feasible.It can effectively improve their self-confidence in employment by helping them form objective and reasonable self-evaluation,and improving social support level.Based on currently available studies,this research hopes to explore the correlation between,self-evaluation,social support and self-confidence in employment among poverty-stricken students from higher vocational schools.By use of group-counseling intervention,we manage to provide useful assistance to the self-confidence in employment among these students by shaping objective and reasonable personal evaluation,improving social support level,regulating self-inferiority mentality in employment,and elevating their self-confidence in employment.