The moderating effect of student club membership on the relationship between career intention in the tourism sector and post-graduate employability anxiety

Engin Unguren; Tahire Huseyinli

doi:10.1016/j.jhlste.2020.100265

The moderating effect of student club membership on the relationship between career intention in the tourism sector and post-graduate employability anxiety

J Hosp Leis Sport Tour Educ. 2020 Nov:27:100265. doi: 10.1016/j.jhlste.2020.100265. Epub 2020 Sep 23.

Authors

Engin Unguren¹, Tahire Huseyinli²

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration, Alanya Aladdin Keykubat University, Alanya, Turkey.
² Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Human Resources Management, Alanya Aladdin Keykubat University, Alanya, Turkey.

Abstract

The majority of the studies on students who study tourism reveal that they do not plan to build their careers in the tourism industry. It is important for both educators and the tourism industry to determine the career intentions of tourism students and the factors which affect them. There are many studies on tourism students' attitudes towards the tourism industry. The main purpose of this particular study is how extracurricular student club membership status of tourism students affect their career intentions and post-graduation employability anxiety. It analyzes student club membership status as a moderating variable in building relationships between the career intentions and post-graduation employability anxiety. Data were collected from 512 respondents via survey. The research model is tested with structural equation model (SEM) and to test the moderating role of student club membership status in the relationship in question, PROCESS macro for SPSS is favoured. The study presents both theoretical insights and practical implications.

Keywords: Career intention; Extra curricular activities; Post-graduate employability anxiety; Student club membership; Tourism education; Undergraduates.