TY - JOUR AU - Buathong, Napakkawat AU - Pattanalertpaiboon, Nattapong AU - Wattanapaiboon, Kanokpit AU - Piriyakoontorn, Jeerapat AU - Thaweechai, Chutikarn AU - Pinkaew, Pratsara AU - Sriket, Phurinut AU - Setasuban, Warat AU - Komjakraphan , Suppanut PY - 2021/06/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Job-Seeking Anxiety Resilience and Family Influence on Career Decision-Making among Senior Undergraduate Students in Southern Thailand during the COVID -19 Pandemic JF - Siriraj Medical Journal JA - Siriraj Med J VL - 73 IS - 6 SE - Original Article DO - 10.33192/Smj.2021.48 UR - https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/sirirajmedj/article/view/251269 SP - 363-372 AB - <p><strong>Objective:</strong>&nbsp; A study of job-seeking anxiety, resilience quotient and family influence on career decision-making is apparently lacking; especially in regards to the impact of the financial crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic, and other factors, such as the political climate currently in Thailand. This study aimed to determine job-seeking anxiety, resilience quotient and family influence on career decision-making and related factors among senior, undergraduate university students.<strong><br>Materials and Methods:</strong> A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in a university in Southern Thailand; from May to October, 2020. Two hundred and seventy-one participants completed questionnaires regarding personal and parental demographic characteristics, resilience, family influence scale, job-seeking self-perception and job-seeking anxiety. <br><strong>Results: </strong>The prevalence of job-seeking anxiety among participants was low (40%), moderate (50%) and high (10%). In univariate analysis, factors significantly associated with job-seeking anxiety were: female gender (p=0.03), effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, economics and the current, political situation Thailand (p=0.03), resilience quotient (p&lt;0.001) and job-seeking self-perception (p&lt;0.001). The predictors of job-seeking anxiety, from multivariate analysis, were: resilience quotient (β = -1.169, P&lt;0.001) and job-seeking self-perception (β = 2.232, P&lt;0.001).&nbsp; <strong><br>Conclusion: </strong>Our study provided evidences that a significant proportion of senior, undergraduate students had experienced job-seeking anxiety, with the protective factor of job-seeking anxiety being individual resilience quotient. This information could be used as an effective management strategy for providing mental health promotion, and prevention for senior, undergraduate university students.</p> ER -