Determinants of feelings of anxiety in students entering the job market
Determinants of feelings of anxiety in students entering the job market

Summary/Abstract: Work on the sense of anxiety among young people entering the labour mar- ket is scarce in the Polish literature. They usually concern a general approach to expec- tations, ambitions and related hopes for a good future. There is a lack of connectors showing the negative, psychological effects of entering a new stage of life, as well as the studies confirming (or denying) the existence of a correlation between the feelings of anxiety and the beginning of working life. The available publications related to the topic were written several or more years ago, in the days before the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, while the new reality completely changed the psyche of the young generation entering the stage of professional life.The most psychologically significant negative aspect of having to look for a job is the possibility of various mental disorders and problems. The most common consequenc- es of failure in this area include anxiety, fear, stress and the associated uncertainty before the future.The results show that there are no statistically significant differences in the general lev- el of anxiety related to entering the job market in male and female students. Students with general anxiety disorders also experience anxiety in the sphere of job search. The hypothesis that there is a negative correlation between the level of self-efficacy over job search and the overall level of anxiety related to entering the job market was confirmed in the present study. The results obtained further indicate that there were no statistically significant differences in the overall level of anxiety related to entering the job market between those who begin their studies and those who complete them.

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