The Relationship between College Students’ Initiative Personality, Job Hunting Clarity and Career Decision-Making Difficulties

Abstract

Based on the decision theory, 325 college students in Datong City, Shanxi Province were randomly selected. The questionnaire survey was used to investigate the current situation and characteristics of college students’ job hunting. The relationship between college students’ active personality and career decision-making difficulties and the mediating role of job search clarity were discussed. The results show that the clarity of college students' job hunting is significantly different in whether parents participate in career choices; the active personality is significantly different in gender and grade; the difficulty of college students' career decision-making has significant gender differences in the factors of “lack of career planning”, “intrinsic conflict” and “external conflict”; and the clarity of job hunting completely adjusts the difficulty of initiative personality and career decision-making. Keywords—Active personality; Job hunting clarity; Career decision-making difficulties