英文摘要 |
Social cognitive career theory is used to explore the differences in factors influencing seafaring intentions between undergraduate students in the navigation departments across the Taiwan Strait. Research objects are selected from navigation majored students from three domestic maritime universities in Taiwan and the Dalian Maritime University (DMU) in Mainland China. The authors testify the proposed application of social cognitive career theory on seafaring career choice with the structural equation modeling technique. The results find that self-efficacy is the main factor affecting seafaring intentions in the Taiwanese scenario, while it slight indirectly affects DMU navigation majored students' seafaring intentions. In addition, social context acts as the significant role affecting navigation majored students' seafaring career selection intentions in the DMU scenario, while it only indirectly influences Taiwanese peers' seafaring intentions. Moreover, vocational interest is the most directly influential factor on Taiwan navigational students' seafaring intentions, while it is shown no significant effect exists in the DMU scenario. Finally, practical implications are suggested drawn from the results of this study. |