X Gai, T Gu, Y Wang, F Jia - Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2022 - Elsevier

Improving career adaptability through motivational interview among peers: An intervention of at-risk Chinese college students majoring in foreign language.

Stem career interventions

Jia

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Excerpt

Using career construction theory, the present study developed a motivational interview between peers that involves engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning. The study aimed to determine if motivational interviews could enhance career adaptabilities of Chinese at-risk first-year college students majoring in foreign languages. A total of 67" at-risk" first-year college students with low career adaptability scores were identified from a screening process (N= 343) and assigned to the intervention or control groups. In the intervention …