ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Personality and Social Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1585195
The Influence of Self Efficacy on Career Maturity in College Students: Mediating the Moderation of Creativity Tendency and Achievement Motivation
Provisionally accepted
- 1College of Innovation and Enterprise Education, Heilongjiang University, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, China
- 2Harbin University, Harbin, China
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Objective: This study explores the relationship between self-efficacy and career maturity among college students, while investigating the mediating role of creativity tendency and achievement motivation. Method: A survey was conducted on 950 college students using the Self-Efficacy Scale, Career Maturity Scale, Creativity Tendency and Achievement Motivation Scale. Results: Self-efficacy significantly and positively predicts career maturity. Creativity tendency has a mediating effect between self-efficacy and career maturity among undergraduate students. The interaction between self-efficacy and achievement motivation significantly predicts creativity tendency, while the interaction between creativity tendency and achievement motivation significantly predicts career maturity. Conclusion: Creativity tendency partially mediates the relationship between self-efficacy and career maturity. Achievement motivation moderates both the initial and later stages of the mediating pathway as "self-efficacy →creativity propensity →career maturity."
Keywords: college students, self-efficacy, Career maturity, Creativity tendency, achievement motivation
Received: 03 Mar 2025; Accepted: 22 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Tong, Zhong, Yang, Liu, Yang, Zhao and Hou. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Yuying Tong, tong0315@163.com
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