The moderating influence of social support on career anxiety and career commitment: an empirical investigation from India

ABSTRACT

The study examines the linkages between anxiety, social support, and commitment of the students towards the tourism and hospitality career inter alia the moderating influence of social support between career anxiety and career commitment. The data was collected from 472 tourism and hospitality students and the findings depicted that a few of the elements of career anxiety (irrational beliefs about employment and employment environment) have a significant negative association with students’ commitment. The moderating influence of social support revealed the negative relationship between anxiety and commitment was only considerable among students with low or no social support.

KEYWORDS:

• Career anxiety
• personal ability
• social support
• career commitment
• higher education
• hospitality
• profession
• tourism
• COVID-19
• India

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The authors have not received any financial support for this manuscript and nor they intended the same at any stage. The authors have followed ethical procedure to conduct the study.