“Imagine Your Career after the COVID-19 Pandemic”: An Online Group Career Counseling Training for University Students
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....
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-8252b9a5f8934100a4bac2b05a1ff6ce2023-11-30T21:13:50ZengMDPI AGBehavioral Sciences2076-328X2023-01-011314810.3390/bs13010048“Imagine Your Career after the COVID-19 Pandemic”: An Online Group Career Counseling Training for University StudentsAndrea Zammitti0Angela Russo1Maria Cristina Ginevra2Paola Magnano3Department of Educational Sciences, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, ItalyDepartment of Educational Sciences, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, ItalyDepartment of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, 35139 Padova, ItalyFaculty of Human and Social Sciences, Kore University, Cittadella Universitaria, 94100 Enna, ItalyThe 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.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/13/1/48positive psychological resourcesfear of COVID-19 pandemiclife satisfactiononline support programuniversity students |
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| title | “Imagine Your Career after the COVID-19 Pandemic”: An Online Group Career Counseling Training for University Students |
| title_full | “Imagine Your Career after the COVID-19 Pandemic”: An Online Group Career Counseling Training for University Students |
| title_fullStr | “Imagine Your Career after the COVID-19 Pandemic”: An Online Group Career Counseling Training for University Students |
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| title_short | “Imagine Your Career after the COVID-19 Pandemic”: An Online Group Career Counseling Training for University Students |
| title_sort | imagine your career after the covid 19 pandemic an online group career counseling training for university students |
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