ArticleFrontiers in psychology2026
Training support, public service motivation, and career retention intentions: the mediating role of job wellbeing among college graduate volunteers in China's rural revitalization.
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Background: The effective implementation of China's rural revitalization strategy relies on a stable young volunteer corps, whose career retention directly impacts volunteer team stability and service efficacy. Public service motivation, a core dimension of volunteers' emotional resilience, and job wellbeing are key to career retention, while training support is a critical exogenous factor, yet their integrated influence mechanism on rural revitalization volunteers' career retention intentions remains underexplored. Methods: Integrating Social Exchange Theory, Theory of Planned Behavior and Public Service Motivation Theory, this study built a framework of exogenous training support-endogenous public service motivation-job wellbeing-sustained career retention intention. Based on survey data of 369 volunteers from Hubei's University Student Volunteering Program (Rural Revitalization Project)-a nationally standardized program initiated in 2022 in this typical central China province, ordered logistic regression and Bootstrap mediation effect tests were used to examine the core variable influence mechanisms. Results: Training support and public service motivation both exerted significant positive effects on career retention intentions, with training support having a stronger total effect. Job wellbeing partially mediated the training support-career retention link (mediation contribution: 57.8%), but its mediating role in the public service motivation-career retention relationship was non-significant, with public service motivation driving career retention directly. Conclusions: This study identified a "dual-path" mechanism for rural revitalization volunteers' career retention, clarifying the differential roles of training support and public service motivation (emotional resilience). The findings provide theoretical basis and practical pathways for optimizing volunteer training and incentive systems, shaping young volunteers' emotional resilience, and consolidating talent support for rural revitalization, while linking training support to career retention (employability) via key mediators of emotional resilience and job wellbeing.
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