The Relationships Between Family Characteristics and Undergraduate Students' COVID-19 Responses: A Cross-Sectional Study in China

Zhao, Teng; Su, Qiang; Hu, Xinye

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2022.873696

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“…This could add new insights to practical implications about how to effectively adopt protective behaviors against COVID-19. Second, other factors such as individual and family characteristics [ 36 ] may also affect students’ protective behaviors. These variables were not included in the study, since the main purpose of the present study was to mainly investigate the relationships among awareness, knowledge, and protective behaviors.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 Awareness on Protective Behaviors during the Off-Peak Period: Sex Differences among Chinese Undergraduates

Zhao

2022

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COVID-19 remains an extreme threat in higher education settings, even during the off-peak period. Appropriate protective measures have been suggested to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in a large population context. Undergraduate students represent a highly vulnerable fraction of the population, so their COVID-19 protective behaviors play critical roles in enabling successful pandemic prevention. Hence, this study aims to understand what and how individual factors contribute to undergraduate students’ protective behaviors. After building multigroup structural equation models using data acquired from surveys taken by 991 undergraduates at a large research university in eastern China, I found that students’ COVID-19 awareness was positively associated with their protective behaviors, such as wearing a mask, using hand sanitizer, and maintaining proper social distance, but not with getting vaccinated. In addition, I found students with higher COVID-19 awareness were more likely to have more COVID-19 knowledge than those with less awareness. Furthermore, sex differences were observed in the mediation effects of COVID-19 awareness on wearing a mask and getting vaccinated, via COVID-19 knowledge, respectively. The results of this study have implications in helping higher education stakeholders enact effective measures to prevent the spread of the pandemic.

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Impact of COVID-19 Awareness on Protective Behaviors during the Off-Peak Period: Sex Differences among Chinese Undergraduates

Zhao

2022

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“…In addition, family characteristics, such as annual family income and parental occupations, were also considered. Following Zhao et al [ 63 ], annual family income was sorted into low- (<CNY 30,000), middle- (>CNY 30,000 and <CNY 500,000), and high-income (>CNY 500,000) brackets. Furthermore, the mother’s and father’s occupations were, respectively, divided into four categories: government employee/military, service-related job, professional/expert, and other jobs.…”

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“…Because we intended to use an identical set of independent variables to predict multiple continuous outcome variables, multiple analysis of variance (MANOVA) was performed [ 63 ] before conducting Equations (4)–(6) to test whether the number of career courses shows statistically significant variances in students’ career awareness, job search self-efficacy, and career planning ability, yielding a significant difference among the instances of career course taking in these three outcome variables, with Wilks’ Λ = 0.936, F (5, 697) = 3.13, and p < 0.001. In addition, other MANOVA indices, such as Pillai’s trace, Lawley–Hotelling trace, and Roy’s largest root, were all statistically significant at the 0.001 level.…”

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How Do Career Development Courses Help Chinese Undergraduate Students Achieve Healthy and Quality Career Development?

Zhao

2022

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Postsecondary institutions worldwide generally provide career development courses or similar courses to better prepare undergraduate students for healthy and quality future careers. Understanding whether these career development courses positively affect students’ career-related outcomes is crucial. Utilizing survey data collected from a large research university located in the eastern part of China, we found that students who have taken at least one career course exhibited career awareness and career planning abilities that were 0.096 and 0.147 units higher, respectively, than those of students who have not taken career courses, with other variables held constant. More specifically, an additional career course was statistically significantly associated with a 0.099, 0.084, and 0.175 unit increase in students’ career awareness, job search self-efficacy, and career planning ability, respectively. A student’s college major and annual family income seemed to be good predictors for a student’s career awareness, job search self-efficacy, and career-planning ability. Furthermore, the more career courses that a student took, the higher the career awareness, job search self-efficacy, and career planning ability that the student had. With these findings in mind, our study recommends postsecondary stakeholders to leverage such courses to help students better prepare for a healthy and quality career development.

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“…The employment value orientation of college students is influenced by the external social environment values and comprehensive ability [48]. The employment value orientation is generally expressed as the salary, development space, work field and social status of the occupation.…”

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A study on employment quality development of college students - an empirical analysis based on structural equation modeling

Wu,

Atchike

2023

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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The rising number of college students and the increasingly severe employment situation have led to the emergence of ideological problems such as employment confusion, lack of ideals and integrity in the employment, which have become important factors affecting the quality employment of college students. The study finds that the improvement of employment value is the most important factor affecting the success of college students. Through the study, it is found that the upgradation of employment value will lead to the upgradation of employment ability. Ideology determines behavior. College students have ideal beliefs, inner constraints, behavioral scruples and dominant values that can better promote the improvement of employment ability. To carry out employment quality cultivation, it is a need to educate and improve college students’ employment value, employment ability and employment knowledge, etc. The main ways include multi-faceted and multi-level leading college students’ employment value orientation; helping college students to have the ability to cope with changes, such as continuous learning ability, ability to solve new problems and innovation ability; reconstructing the curriculum system and establishing dual-body diversified employment cultivation mode.

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The Relationships Between Family Characteristics and Undergraduate Students' COVID-19 Responses: A Cross-Sectional Study in China

Cited by 7 publications

References 42 publications

Impact of COVID-19 Awareness on Protective Behaviors during the Off-Peak Period: Sex Differences among Chinese Undergraduates

Impact of COVID-19 Awareness on Protective Behaviors during the Off-Peak Period: Sex Differences among Chinese Undergraduates

How Do Career Development Courses Help Chinese Undergraduate Students Achieve Healthy and Quality Career Development?

A study on employment quality development of college students - an empirical analysis based on structural equation modeling

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