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- Title
"Imagine Your Career after the COVID-19 Pandemic": An Online Group Career Counseling Training for University Students.
- Authors
Zammitti, Andrea; Russo, Angela; Ginevra, Maria Cristina; Magnano, Paola
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
VOCATIONAL guidance; COVID-19 pandemic; COLLEGE students; POSITIVE psychology; PSYCHOLOGICAL well-being
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences (2076-328X), 2023, Vol 13, Issue 1, p48
- ISSN
2076-328X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/bs13010048