The virtuous cycle of women’s job search remodeling and self-efficacy - A case study of the Yangtze River Delta region in China

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10.2991/978-2-38476-128-9_7How to use a DOI?

Keywords

women; self-efficacy; job-search reshaping

Abstract

Chinese young career women, who are in their childbearing years, face multiple pressures from work and family. Previous studies have primarily focused on successful cases of women balancing their careers and families, with scant attention paid to the self-efficacy of female job seekers. This study, based on a three-month investigation tracking 67 job seekers in the Yangtze River Delta region of China, used a structural equation model to analyze weekly data. The findings indicate that the proactive engagement of women in job-search reshaping behaviors significantly positively influences their career self-efficacy on a weekly basis. Moreover, weekly career self-efficacy significantly and positively affects employment opportunities and mediates the influence of weekly job-search reshaping on employment opportunities. The research results extend our understanding of the formation of job-seeking self-efficacy and its virtuous cycle effects. They also provide positive suggestions for the self-efficacy of new female job seekers, thereby promoting their job-seeking success.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shijing Zhu
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/10/15
TI  - The virtuous cycle of women’s job search remodeling and self-efficacy - A case study of the Yangtze River Delta region in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2023 3rd International Conference on Modern Educational Technology and Social Sciences (ICMETSS 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 46
EP  - 57
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-128-9_7
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-128-9_7
ID  - Zhu2023
ER  -