| 英文摘要 |
Introduction: People continually make career choices when developing, and such choices are correlated with personal and environmental factors. Choosing the career that fulfills one’s own interests and abilities not only concerns one’s own future career development and achievement, but also affects the human resource management strategies of various professional fields in a country considerably. Therefore, on the basis of the social cognitive career theory, we established a model for explaining the career choices of university physical education (PE) students and explored the effects of social support, learning experience, career self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and professional interests on the career choices of these students. Methods: Fourth-year university PE students were recruited in this study. Data were collected by conducting a questionnaire survey. A total of 410 questionnaires were distributed, and 389 valid questionnaires were returned. The obtained data were statistically analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, confirmatory factor analyses, and structural equation modeling. Results: (a) Variables involving social support, learning experience, career self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and professional interests were positively correlated with each other. (b) The goodness-of-fit of the model and the sample data on the university PE students in this study reached an acceptable level. Apart from social support and expected results demonstrating nonsignificant effects on career choices, all the other potential variables were confirmed to affect career choices directly or indirectly. Conclusion: We effectively explain the career choices of university PE students by using the model created according to the social cognitive career theory. All the variables are closely correlated with one another, and professional interests considerably influence the PE students’ career choices. The results of this study can serve as a practical reference for school advising units and future studies. |
