"Imagine Your Career after the COVID-19 Pandemic": An Online Group Career Counseling Training for University Students

被引:10
作者
Zammitti, Andrea [1 ,2 ]
Russo, Angela [1 ]
Ginevra, Maria Cristina [2 ]
Magnano, Paola [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Catania, Dept Educ Sci, I-95124 Catania, Italy
[2] Univ Padua, Dept Philosophy Sociol Educ & Appl Psychol, I-35139 Padua, Italy
[3] Kore Univ, Fac Human & Social Sci, Cittadella Univ, I-94100 Enna, Italy
关键词
positive psychological resources; fear of COVID-19 pandemic; life satisfaction; online support program; university students; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; FUTURE ORIENTATION; LIFE SATISFACTION; RISK INTELLIGENCE; SELF-EFFICACY; ADAPTABILITY; SCALE; FEAR; INTERVENTION; EQUIVALENCE;
D O I
10.3390/bs13010048
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively influenced the psychological well-being of people around the world; university students have experienced feelings of fear of the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the intolerance of uncertainty, and a worsened quality of life, related to the reduction of social contacts. Scholars all around the world widely suggest the need to take care of this issue, proposing solutions to support students' adjustment in the post-pandemic period. The literature on positive psychology and the life design approach has identified multiple psychological resources, the character strengths, that can sustain people's life satisfaction and well-being in changing contexts, including their university experience. We proposed an online group career counseling intervention for 30 Italian university students (experimental group) to promote university students' psychological resources and mitigate the long-term negative implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on life satisfaction. The other 30 students formed the control group. We found that the students engaged in the online group career counseling intervention evidenced, at the post-test, higher levels than the pre-test of (a) resilience, (b) subjective risk intelligence, (c) career adaptability, (d) self-efficacy, (e) optimism, (f) hope, (g) life satisfaction, and lower levels than the pre-test of (h) fears of COVID-19 pandemic. No differences at Time 1 and Time 2 were found in the control group. Implications for future research and practice will be discussed.
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