The Relationship Between Career Social Support and Employability of College Students: A Moderated Mediation Model

Abstract

This study examines the underlying mechanism that connects career social support with employability through a survey of 392 Chinese college students. The results showed that career social support had a positive effect on career adaptation and employability of college students, and career adaptation mediated the association between career social support and employability. Furthermore, proactive personality was found to play a moderating role in linking career adaptation and employability. More specifically, higher levels of a proactive personality strengthen the enhancing effect of career adaptation on the employability of college students. Therefore, there was a moderated mediation effect between career social support and employability of college students.

Future orientation and perceived employability of chinese undergraduates: a moderated mediation model

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Developing Capital in Language Learning: A Mixed-Method Study on Vietnamese English Learners

“…As directly stated above, the driving force of social capital towards symbolic capital cannot be underestimated. That relationship seems to be a decisive factor to facilitate how graduates progress their positioning in the job market (Bassey, et al, 2019;Islam, 2018;Xia et al, 2020). Based on the participants' perspectives, they understood themselves in response to their varying sociocultural contexts.…”

“…Acting as an independent variable in the examined relationships between forms of capital, economic capital referred to students' financial strengths that assisted students to access learning resources. Social capital suggested students' attempted to expand their personal network and professional connections with those who supports mutually on various purposes (Islam, 2018;Xia et al, 2020), while cultural capital indicated cultural knowledge and understanding that enabled learners to assimilate and integrate into other diverse settings in which they live or work (Bahna, 2017;Pham et al, 2019).…”

“…This is consistent with the emergence and growing importance of education (Bourdieu, 1977;Norris, 2011). Secondly, social capital contributed to the development of symbolic capital, indicating that social relationships seemed to be a decisive factor in facilitating how graduates would have progressed their positioning in the desired job market (Bassey, et al, 2019;Islam, 2018;Xia et al, 2020). Lastly, the interaction between cultural and symbolic capital suggests that being able to use language effectively goes together with knowing about the culture where the language is used, therefore the impacts of cultural capital are undebatable in importance (Bourdieu, 1977(Bourdieu, , 1986(Bourdieu, , 1989Dovey, 2020;Paige et al, 2003).…”

“…Societal group memberships enable individuals to grow their sense of cooperation. Memberships can provide opportunities to impact others and collaboratively create values (Andreas, 2018;Bassey, et al, 2019;Islam, 2018;Xia et al, 2020). Bourdieu (1989) defined symbolic capital as "a reputation for competence and an image of respectability and honorability" (Bourdieu, 1989, p. 291).…”