ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Personality and Social Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1537814
How to deal with future uncertainty?: An empirical study of undergraduates based on the theory of motivation information management
Provisionally accepted
- Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China
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Based on the Theory of Motivated Information Management (TMIM), this study examines how undergraduates manage information related to post-graduation paths, with a particular focus on their interactions with teachers, family, and friends. Besides this, the study explores how individuals perceive and handle information in uncertain situations, specifically examining the behavior of undergraduates regarding employment and further education decisions. Furthermore, this research reveals the decision-making process of students facing graduation choices, particularly in terms of information management. It addresses a gap in the application of the TMIM model within the context of college graduation anxiety research, assessing its suitability as a decision-making model for information seeking related to graduation anxiety.The findings demonstrate the effectiveness of the TMIM framework in predicting informationseeking strategies, thereby supporting various application scenarios of information-seeking models for undergraduates.
Keywords: Theory Of Motivated Information Management, uncertainty, undergraduates, graduation anxiety, information seeking Frontiers
Received: 01 Dec 2024; Accepted: 16 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Feng, Guo, Wang and Mo. 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: Chunyan Mo, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China
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