Career planning curriculum reform integrating psychology on employment anxiety disorder of college students

Background Due to the issue of employment choices faced by college students after graduation, universities offer related courses to assist students in their career planning. However, some students still experience employment anxiety, making the career planning course reform for college students urgent and necessary. Subjects and Methods To explore the impact of integrating psychological career planning courses on students’ employment anxiety, a study selected 100 students with employment anxiety at a certain university and randomly divided them into two groups. One group is a blank group, which receives guidance from traditional career planning courses. The other group is the experimental group, which adopts the guidance of integrated psychology for college students’ career planning courses. The experimental period lasts for 3 months. The experiment used the Self Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) and the Self Rating Depression Scale (SDS) for effectiveness evaluation. Results The experimental results showed that the SAS scores of the blank group before and after the experiment were 60.3 ± 2.4 and 59.3 ± 1.6, respectively, and the SDS scores were 42.6 ± 1.7 and 37.3 ± 2.0, respectively. The SAS scores of the experimental group before and after the experiment were 62.1 ± 1.6, and the SDS scores were 40.4 ± 2.6 and 32.7 ± 1.4, respectively. The SAS and SDS scores of the experimental group students showed a more significant downward trend compared to the blank group, as incorporating psychology into career planning courses can better focus on students’ psychological changes and provide targeted guidance. Conclusions Integrating career planning courses into psychology can alleviate students’ employment anxiety. Acknowledgement The research is supported by a reform project of teaching content and curriculum system of institutions of higher learning in Guizhou Province in 2019: Exploration of teaching reform of career planning course based on OBE concept -- Taking Guizhou University of Engineering Science as an example (Found No.2019157)