The Relationship between Perceived Social Support, Self-Esteem and Career Decision Self-Efficacy among First Year Undergraduate Students

Little is known regarding the life satisfaction of rural-to-urban migrants in China. In this study we assessed whether self-esteem and perceived social support mediated the association between rural-to-urban migrants' acculturative stress and life satisfaction. We use convenience sampling to recruit 712 migrants who were employed at construction sites in Nanjing for the study. Results reveal that acculturative stress was negatively related to self-esteem, perceived social support, and life satisfaction; self-esteem was positively associated with perceived social support and life satisfaction; and perceived social support was a significant and positive predictor of life satisfaction. In addition, we found that self-esteem and perceived social support partially mediated the relationship between acculturative stress and life satisfaction. Our findings provide a better understanding of life satisfaction over the course of migration, and add to knowledge of psychological well-being and mental health among rural-to-urban migrants in China.

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Mediation Effects of Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy on the Relationship between Social Support and Career Preparation Behaviors of Multicultural Adolescents

Korean Education Inquiry ◽

10.22327/kei.2019.37.1.167 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

pp. 167-185

Author(s):

Yun-Hee Jung ◽

JuSung Jun

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Decision Making ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Career Decision ◽

Career Preparation ◽

Career Decision Making ◽

Mediation Effects ◽

The Relationship

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Validation of a French Version of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire: Relationships With Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy

Journal of Career Development ◽

10.1177/08948453211009975 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 089484532110099

Author(s):

Jérôme Rossier ◽

Shékina Rochat ◽

Laurent Sovet ◽

Jean-Luc Bernaud

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Career Counseling ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Age Groups ◽

Career Decision ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Career Decision Making ◽

Student Sample ◽

French Version ◽

The Relationship

The aim of this study was to validate the French version of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ) and to assess its measurement invariance across gender, age groups, countries, and student versus career counseling samples. We also examined the sensitivity of this instrument to discriminate a career counseling population from a general student sample. Third, we studied the relationship between career decision-making difficulties, career decision-making self-efficacy, and self-esteem in a sample of 1,748 French and French-speaking Swiss participants. A confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the overall hierarchical structure of the CDDQ. Multigroup analysis indicated that the level of invariance across groups almost always reached configural, metric, and scalar invariance. Differences between countries were very small, whereas differences between the general population and career counseling subsamples were much larger. Both self-esteem and self-efficacy significantly predicted career decision-making difficulties. Moreover, as expected, self-efficacy partially mediated the relationship between self-esteem and career decision-making difficulties.

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Suicide Attempts and Perceived Social Support among Chinese Drug Users: The Mediating Role of Self-Esteem and Depression

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18010208 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 208

Author(s):

Yali Deng ◽

Xuemeng Li ◽

Liu Liu ◽

Wing Hong Chui

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Drug Users ◽

Protective Factor ◽

Suicide Attempts ◽

Perceived Social Support ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Influential Factors ◽

Chinese Drug ◽

Severe Problem ◽

The Relationship

Suicidal behavior is a severe problem among drug users. This study examines influential factors related to suicide attempts and analyzes possible mediators of the relationship between perceived social support and suicide attempts amongst Chinese drug users under compulsory institutional drug treatment. Taking perceived social support as the independent variable, we found that the relationship between suicide attempts and perceived social support is mediated by self-esteem as a protective factor and depression as a risk factor. Path analysis shows that self-esteem contributes relatively more to the indirect effects than depression does, accounting for 31.1% and 24.2% of the total effect, respectively. Generally speaking, the findings of this study point to an urgent need for addressing suicide attempts among Chinese drug users while treating self-esteem as the protective factor that deserves as substantial attention as depression receives.

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