The Effect of Grit on Career Adaptability of Chinese College Students Based on the Self-Regulatory Processes

Haihong Li; Xuan Yu; Yuanfei Mei; Xuhong Liu; Ling Li; Nan Luo

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.795153

The Effect of Grit on Career Adaptability of Chinese College Students Based on the Self-Regulatory Processes

Front Psychol. 2021 Dec 8:12:795153. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.795153. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Haihong Li¹, Xuan Yu², Yuanfei Mei³, Xuhong Liu⁴, Ling Li², Nan Luo¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Business Administration, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, China.
² School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu, China.
³ School of Management Science and Engineering, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, China.
⁴ Department of Police Management, Sichuan Police College, Luzhou, China.

Abstract

Intelligence is innate, but grit is something everyone can develop. Grit not only enables students to stick to their goals, but also to persevere even when they fail. Career adaptability is an important concept in vocational education of college students, which is a person engaged in some work, must have a certain physical and psychological quality. Base on the self-regulation theory, this study investigated the relationship between grit and career adaptability of Chinese college student based on the self-regulatory processes. We surveyed 839 Chinese college students and tested a self-regulation model. As expected, grit was related to greater career adaptability via greater career exploration and decision self-efficacy, positive affect, and goal commitment. These findings not only broaden the theoretical framework for the effect of grit on career adaptability, but also open up a new horizon for improving college students' career adaptability in practice.

Keywords: career adaptability; goal commitment; grit; positive affect; self-regulatory process.