Table 3.

Results of hierarchical regression analysis.

	Career exploration and decision self-efficacy	Positive affect	Goal commitment	Career adaptability
	M1	M2	M3	M4	M5	M6	M7	M8	M9	M10
Control variable
Gender	0.001	−0.009	0.125	−0.008	−0.019	−0.021	−0.064	−0.008	−0.005	−0.046
Age	−0.148	0.013	−0.023	−0.053	−0.030	−0.066	−0.054	−0.027	−0.056	−0.046
Grade	0.144*	0.004	0.016	0.052	0.025	0.054	0.049	0.026	0.051	0.047
Nationality	−0.132	−0.02	0.017	−0.008	0.019	−0.002	−0.013	0.015	−0.004	−0.014
GPA of last academic year	0.015	0.006	0.04	0.000	0.000	0.002	−0.01	−0.002	−0.001	−0.012
Subjective social status	0.154***	−0.001	0.035	0.051***	0.023*	0.055***	0.043***	0.024	0.052	0.041
Parents’ education	0.049	0.002	−0.007	−0.008	−0.014	−0.003	−0.001	−0.016	−0.008	−0.006
Independent variable
Grit	0.596***	0.049**	0.099*	0.417***				0.311***	0.406***	0.386***
Mediating variable
Career exploration and decision self-efficacy					0.200***			0.178***
Positive affect						0.297***			0.228**
Goal commitment							0.337***			0.309***
R 2	0.097	0.014	0.046	0.111	0.190	0.040	0.102	0.235	0.118	0.173
△R2	0.040	0.008	0.007	0.083	0.163	0.012	0.074	0.124	0.109	0.062
F	11.822***	1.592	5.271***	13.814***	25.986***	4.598***	12.549***	30.106***	13.164***	20.540***

N = 893,

^*p < 0.05,

^**p < 0.01,

^***p < 0.001.