HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Sport Psychology
This article is part of the Research TopicDeterminants of Achievement in Top SportView all 32 articles
Chain-Mediated Effects of Career Self-Efficacy and Career Planning Between Social Support and Career Anxiety in College Soccer Players
Provisionally accepted
- 1Teaching Department of Common Courses, Shandong University of Art and Design, Jinan, China
- 2Shandong Sport University, Jinan, China
- 3Department of Modern Handicrafts, Shandong University of Art and Design, Jinan, China
- 4Department of Physical Education, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China
- 5Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China,, jinan, China
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors affecting the Career Anxiety of Chinese university high-level soccer players, to construct a chain mediation model, and to provide intervention suggestions to alleviate the Career Anxiety of this group. The study used questionnaires and collected 797 valid questionnaires (404 male; 393 female), and used AMOS 21.0 and SPSS 19.0 software for data processing and model testing through hierarchical regression and structural equation modeling. The results showed that: social support had a direct negative effect on Career Anxiety; career choice self-efficacy and career planning mediated between social support and Career Anxiety, respectively; and career choice self-efficacy and career planning together constituted a significant chain mediation effect. The conclusion suggests that improving the social support level, enhancing their career choice self-efficacy and perfecting their career planning ability are the key ways to effectively intervene in Career Anxiety among college high-level soccer players.
Keywords: university-level high-performance soccer players, social support, Career anxiety, careerchoice self-efficacy, Career planning, chain mediation
Received: 21 Aug 2025; Accepted: 31 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 FENG, ZHANG, WANG, Zhang and Che. 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: Guangwei Che, chegw@sdutcm.edu.cn
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