Explore career via the iceberg metaphor: an Satir Growth Model-based career intervention in enhancing college freshmen' career adaptability

ABSTRACT

This study introduced Satir Growth Model (SGM) into career intervention to enhance Chinese college freshmen’s career adaptability. The effect of SGM-based career intervention was examined by the randomised controlled trial design. Results indicated that the experimental group experienced a significant increase in career exploration and career adaptability after seven sessions of the SGM-based career intervention. Our study also found that career exploration could partly mediate the relationship between experimental condition and career adaptability. One year later, the experimental group accomplished a follow-up test, which showed that the effect of SGM-based career intervention could remain in a long run. These results suggested that the SGM-based career intervention could be a new approach for the enhancement of career adaptability.

KEYWORDS:

• College freshmen
• career adaptability
• Satir Growth Model
• career exploration
• iceberg metaphor
• career intervention

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, upon reasonable request.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the annual project of National Social Science Fund of China in 2014: Research on college students’ occupation career development with Satir family therapy model [number 14BKS131].

Notes on contributors

Enna Wang

Enna Wang is a PhD candidate at the School of Education, Tianjin University, China. Her research are career intervention and group therapy.

Junjie Zhang

Junjie Zhang is a registered counsellor in China and a Ph.D. candidate in psychology at the National Innovation Center for Assessment of Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, China. He works on the evaluation of career intervention effectiveness.

Xian Peng

Xian Peng is an Associate Professor at the School of Philosophy and Sociology, Lanzhou University, China. She has over 10 years of research and clinical experience in Satir therapy. Her research interests are psychological intervention and training in Satir therapy.

Hongyan Li

Hongyan Li is an Associate Professor in the International Rural Education and Training Center at Agricultural University of Hebei, China. Her interest is in the various applications of Satir therapy.

Chenguang Teng

Chenguang Teng is a PhD candidate at the Insitute of Agricultural Economics and Development, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China. His research concerns the study of career psychology.

Biao Zeng

Biao Zeng is a PhD candidate at the National Innovation Center for Assessment of Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, China. His research involves the study of intervention effectiveness.