Wenxia Zhou's research while affiliated with Renmin University of China and other places

... Nevertheless, as emerging research on employee proactivity suggests, employees can be proactive and strive to assert themselves in their career paths rather than simply accepting their careers in a passive manner (Ramaprasad, Rao, Rao, Prabhu, and Kumar, 2022). In this regard, a recent study found that negative career shocks can boost employees' perceived employability through engaging in networking behavior (Zhou, Jiang, Khapova, and Qu, 2023). ...

... Pro-environmental behavior represents the degree to which an individual exhibits environmentally sustainable behavior [4][5][6]. However, previous studies have neglected how organizational management mechanisms (e.g., environmental leadership) lead to green behaviors, meaning that companies have little strategy to promote employees' green behaviors [7][8][9], which is the first gap. In addition, few surveys address the linkage between pro-environmental behavior and corporate social responsibility and whether there are potential contextual variables (e.g., environmental identity) that strengthen this relationship [10][11][12], which is the second gap. ...

... Previous literature reveals that death reflection encourages employees to decide on tasks, goals, and activities based on their own values (Lykins et al., 2007). Using a sample of 387 employees in China, Wei et al., (2021) found that death reflection triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic is positively related to role performance and OCB. It seems that employees in high death reflection redesign their jobs and take the initiative to provide more help or guidance, resulting in higher levels of OCB (Wei et al., 2021). ...

... This paper suggests that we should follow the concept of "internal and external cooperation". This concept includes two major contents: one is to build a curriculum system of "three-course linkage" for employment training; the other is to build a diversified employment training mode [51]. ...

... The questionnaire includes four dimensions: optimism, resilience, self-efficacy, and hope. In our study, we selected four items with higher loadings, following the operational approach established by Zhou et al. (2018). These questions were scored on a 5-point Likert scale, with higher scores indicating higher positive tendencies in PsyCap. ...

... College students need to adjust themselves so that they can smoothly transition from students to professionals and gradually meet the requirements of their careers and complete career activities. Career adaptability is a significant ability to help college students develop and plays a role in college students' career construction and decision-making [13,14]. Therefore, career adaptability is a critical variable for observing the lifelong career development of college students [1]. ...

... According to Bandura's social cognitive theory (SCT), individual thoughts, environmental influences, and individual behaviors form a triangular relationship (Bandura, 1997). Individual behaviors form through interactions between individual thoughts and environmental influences (Xin et al., 2020). Social cognitive career theory (SCCT), which is based on the foundation of the SCT, suggests that self-efficacy and outcome expectations play important roles in the formation of career interests (Zhao et al., 2021). ...

... As it constitutes the positive possible selves and is a motivational resource in the context of work [11], studies have suggested that the future work self is positively linked to proactive career behaviors [16,49], such as career planning and skill development. Moreover, when shaping their future work self, students are more likely to seek relevant information and suggestions on environmental clues [15], which not only provides a clearer image of their occupational self-concept [50] but also forms "personalized" career planning for constructing themselves [51]. Therefore, it can be inferred that there is a positive correlation between the future work self and career exploration. ...

... Definitions of psychological wellbeing vary, currently, several measures relate to different conceptual models, and most researchers agree that psychological wellbeing is best understood as a positive assessment of one's work-life (Xin, Li, Tang, Zhou & Wang 2019;Xu, Xie, Tang, 2020 (2008) note a common thread is an assumption that happy workers have higher performance, with mutual benefits for employees and organizations. ...

... Research indicates that students' engagement in career preparatory activities is influenced by their personal resources [59]. These resources can both trigger and constrain career preparatory behaviors [59], thereby impacting their career development and overall well-being [60]. As a personally relevant resource, job market knowledge plays an important role in judging the employment situation, making career decisions, and promoting career success [61]. ...