The Relationship between College Graduate’s Dual Self-Consciousness and Job Search Clarity: The Mediating Role of Perceived Stress

The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between college graduates’ dual self-consciousness, job searchclarity and perceived stress, and reveal the mediating role of perceived stress between dual self-consciousness andjob search clarity. In this study, 467 college graduates were investigated using the Dual Self-Consciousness Scale,Job Search Clarity Scale, and Perceived Stress Scale. After controlling for gender, age, and region, the resultsrevealed that: (1) private self-consciousness has a significant positive predictive effect on job search clarity; (2)perceived stress has a significant negative predictive effect on job search clarity; (3) perceived stress plays partialmediation effects between private self-consciousness and job search clarity; (4) perceived stress plays completemediation effects between public self-consciousness and job search clarity; (5) perceived stress has suppressingeffects between public self-consciousness and job search clarity.