ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Mindfulness
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1599906
This article is part of the Research TopicApplications of Mindfulness in Media and Communication StudiesView all 20 articles
Growth-Oriented Thinking and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Among University Students: The Chain Mediation Role of Mindfulness and Future Time Perspective
Provisionally accepted
- Faculty of Education, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, China
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Abstract: To explore the relationship between growth mindset and career decision-making self-efficacy among university students as well as the underlying influencing mechanisms. It uses the Growth Thinking Scale, Mindfulness Scale, Future Time Perspective Scale, and Career Decision Self Efficacy Scale to conduct a survey of 670 university graduates. The results show: A significant positive correlation between self-efficacy and growth-oriented thinking in career decision-making (r = 0.468, p < 0.01), mindfulness (r = 0.298, p < 0.01), and future time perspective (r = 0.352, p < 0.01). Mindfulness, future time perception, and mindfulness-future time perception partially mediated the relationship between growth mindset and self-efficacy in career decision-making, with effect sizes of 0.042, 0.076, and 0.133, respectively, accounting for 9.17%, 16.46%, and 28.98% of the total effect. The mediating pathways of growth-oriented thinking influence these factors are statistically significant, as are their chain relationships. The results indicate that mindfulness and future time perspective can explain the impact of university students' growth-oriented thinking on their career decision-making self-efficacy, and strengthen the indirect effect of mindfulness on career decision-making self-efficacy through chain mediation.
Keywords: career decision-making self-efficacy, Growth-Oriented Thinking, mindfulness, future time perspective, university students
Received: 25 Mar 2025; Accepted: 07 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Li, Wang, Li and Yin. 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:
Xuzhou Li, lixuzhou@ynnu.edu.cn
Keli Yin, yinkeli@ynnu.edu.cn
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