Data report on career adaptability, personal value, and motivational interview among at-risk Chinese college students

Tingyu Gu; Xiaosong Gai; Yuan Wang; Fanli Jia

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2023.108982

Data report on career adaptability, personal value, and motivational interview among at-risk Chinese college students

Data Brief. 2023 Feb 14:47:108982. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.108982. eCollection 2023 Apr.

Authors

Tingyu Gu¹, Xiaosong Gai¹, Yuan Wang¹, Fanli Jia²

Affiliations

¹ School of Psychology, Northeast Normal University, No. 5268, Renmin Street, Changchun, Jilin Province, China.
² Department of Psychology, Seton Hall University, 400 S Orange Ave, South Orange, NJ, USA.

Abstract

The dataset provided here was partially associated with a published article on career adaptability [1]. The data set included 343 college freshmen who had difficulties in career decision-making. A self-report questionnaire on career adaptability (concern, control, curiosity, confidence), personal values (materialistic values, self-transcendence values, self-enhancement values), and demographic information was administered to all participants. In addition, a pre-selection of low career adaptability was performed. These participants scored below the 27th percentile in career adaptability. The career adaptability was administrated again two months later. We divided the data into two groups (intervention and control) and two time points (pre-test and post-test). Researchers can use the data to explore the relationship among career adaptability, personal values, and demographic information, as well as to compare interventions on career adaptability.

Keywords: Career construction; Counseling; Intervention; Peer coaching.