Impact of Anticipatory Psychological Contact (APC) on Career Choice: Evidence from Final Year Management Undergraduates in a State University in Sri Lanka

Abstract

Anticipatory psychological contact mean, pre-employment beliefs and perceptions of future career. Therefore, the objective of this study was to identify the impact of anticipatory psychological contact on career choice in final year management undergraduate in a state university. Although the between Anticipatory Psychological Contact and Career Choice established in western literature, very few studies have examined these with final year management undergraduates in Sri Lankan context. This study intends to contribute to fill the gap in practical and empirical. Hence this research is a deductive (theory testing) research, and it was a quantitative and cross-sectional study which was based on final year management undergraduates in a state university. Data were collected through structured questionnaire using convenience sampling technique. Final year management undergraduates in the state university were chosen the population of the study and sampling method was convenience sampling method. Correlation analysis and simple regression analysis were used to measure the relationship and to test the advanced hypotheses of the study by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The analyzed results show there is a significant impact on anticipatory psychological contact on career choice while ensuring relationship between anticipatory psychological contact and career choice.