Self-management Ability of Students in Higher Vocational Colleges:A Case Study of Quanzhou College of Technology

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the research on the self-management ability of vocational college students, and find out the current situation and main problems of the development of self-management ability of vocational college students. The three purposes of this study are as follows: 1) To explore the impact of the differences of objective factors on the development of self-management ability of vocational college students and put forward appropriate strategies; 2) Explore the deficiencies in the development of self-management ability of vocational college students and put forward appropriate strategies; 3) Put forward appropriate strategies for the defects of the development of self-management ability of vocational students in the management mode of vocational colleges.

This paper adopts quantitative analysis method to analyze the problem, takes Quanzhou College of Technology students’ self-management ability development as an example, combines students’ basic information with six dimensions of self- cognition, self-planning, self-regulation, self-monitoring, self-assessment and self- reinforcement, and combines social cognitive theory, social cultural theory and self- determination theory. The data were collected by the single factor classification and summary method combined with the questionnaire survey method, and the forward Likert scale was used to investigate the situation of each dimension. The research results show that there are great differences in the demographic characteristics, family background characteristics and school learning characteristics of vocational college students, which shows that the differences of objective factors affect the development of self-management ability of vocational college students. Secondly, through the use of Likert scale forward scoring method to analyze the six dimensions of the situation, we can see that the current higher vocational students in the development of self- management ability self-management consciousness is shallow, self-planning ability is weak, self-management effect is not good. Thirdly, the research on the development of self-management ability of higher vocational students can stimulate the initiative and enthusiasm of self-management at the individual level, create a harmonious and democratic family cultural atmosphere in the family, and enrich the training forms of self-management ability of higher vocational students in higher vocational colleges. It is hoped that this study can provide more experience and reference for other researchers and be helpful to the study of self-management ability of vocational college students.

Keywords: vocational students, higher vocational college, self-management, self-management ability

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Master of Business Administration (International Program), Siam University, Bangkok, Thailand