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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Educ.
Sec. Higher Education
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1477490

The Influence of Community Social Capital's on Pre-service Teachers' Career Calling: The Mediating Role of Career Exploration and the Moderating Effect of Agreeableness

Provisionally accepted
Xiaomin Su Xiaomin Su *Anuar Ahmad Anuar Ahmad *Jamsari Alias Jamsari Alias *
  • National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia

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    This study aims to explore the mechanism of the influence of community social capital on preservice teachers' career calling, and examine the mediating role of career exploration and the moderating effect of agreeableness. Data were collected from 455 pre-service teachers in a local undergraduate normal college in Guangdong Province. The structural equation model was used for analysis. The results showed that there was a significant positive relationship between community social capital and career calling, career exploration played a mediating role, and agreeableness played a moderating role in the relationship between community social capital and career exploration. This finding provides valuable theoretical and practical support for colleges and universities to develop and design community service-learning education programs in order to promote pre-service teachers' career exploration, meet the individualized requirements of future teachers, and cultivate pre-service teachers' career calling.

    Keywords: Community social capital, Career exploration, Career calling, pre-service teachers, Agreeableness

    Received: 07 Aug 2024; Accepted: 10 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Su, Ahmad and Alias. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Xiaomin Su, National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
    Anuar Ahmad, National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
    Jamsari Alias, National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia

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