The role of career adaptability and resilience in mental health problems in Chinese adolescents

•Investigated career adaptability, resilience, and mental health problems in Chinese adolescents.•A mediation model was tested with data from n = 372 participants.•Career adaptability negatively predicted mental health problems.•Resilience may be a mediator between career adaptability and mental hea...

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Published in:Children and youth services review 2020-05, Vol.112, p.104893, Article 104893
Main Authors: Xu, Chen, Gong, Xingying, Fu, Wanyan, Xu, Yanjun, Xu, Haiyan, Chen, Wenjing, Li, Min
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptability
Adolescents
Boys
Career adaptability
Career counseling
Careers
Counseling
Girls
Health problems
Medical personnel
Mental disorders
Mental health
Mental health problems
Resilience
Secondary school students
Secondary schools
Social policy
Social problems
Social work
Teenagers
Well being
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Summary:•Investigated career adaptability, resilience, and mental health problems in Chinese adolescents.•A mediation model was tested with data from n = 372 participants.•Career adaptability negatively predicted mental health problems.•Resilience may be a mediator between career adaptability and mental health problems. The mechanism of how career adaptability could contribute to adolescent’s mental health problems remains unclear in mainland China. The present study aims to explore the relationship between career adaptability, resilience, and mental health problems in a sample of Chinese adolescents. A total of 372 Chinese high school students aged 14–19 years (M = 17.25; SD = 0.53), including 141 (37.9%) boys and 231 (62.1%) girls participated. The results found that career adaptability negatively predicted mental health problems and resilience mediated the relationship between career adaptability and mental health problems. In light of these results, several managerial suggestions related to career education and career counseling practices for adolescents, as well as implications for future researches are provided. These findings could provide cross-cultural for theoretical implications and contribute to evidence-based social policy and social work intervention to promote adolescent’s mental well-being.
ISSN:0190-7409
1873-7765
DOI:10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104893