Abstract:
The purpose of this descriptive study was to explore the level of anxiety of job application, the level of self-esteem, and factors related to anxiety of job application among undergraduate students at Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. A cross-sectional design was employed with participation of 296 students in Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. 74 students of each year were selected to be participants by simple random sampling in the classroom after using the stratified sampling for a total of 296 participants. The data were collected from September 2019 to January 2020. A structured questionnaire was applied to ask about demographic information, anxiety of job application, self-esteem, personality traits, and coping strategy. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics such as percentage, mean and standard deviation, Chi-square, Pearsons correlation coefficient where appropriate. The results showed that 56.4% of students were in moderate level of self-esteem, 25% in low level, and 18.6% in high level. Thirty-five point five percent of students with high anxiety job application were detected. The average score of anxiety of job application was 66.69 with standard deviation of 16.1. Factors related to high level of anxiety of job application included medical problems, family financial status, types of careers interests, attitude about current job search situations, lower self-esteem level, higher scores of neuroticism, lower scores of extraversion, lower scores of agreeableness, lower scores of problem-focused strategy and higher scores of avoidance coping strategy. These results therefore suggested the need for an action from related parties proactively promoting student's mental health and developing required skills for dealing with anxiety of job application.