Mediation Role of Social Network Support on The Effects of Career Stress on Career Stability: A Research on the Gastronomy Students

Abstract

There is always some degree of uncertainty in human's natural life process. Every situation and event are covered with uncertainty in itself. This feeling of uncertainty is generally experienced while choosing a spouse, buying a new estate or thinking on career. An individual who has those kinds of uncertainties can appeal for some methods such as obtaining information, seeking advice and doing research to reduce them. Support expectation from social network is the most appealed one among those methods. In social networks, the expectation of social support is based on the thesis that in the case of uncertainty people will definitely want to get support from actors like family, relatives and friends defined as social networks, because they cannot interact alone in the nature as a social entity In this context, the basis of people's philosophy of life is based on the relationship networks and the concepts of mutual trust and sympathy that helped by these networks. Sharing their emotional situations, the moments of happiness and unhappiness with probable reasons and results of the events that they have experienced throughout their lives, people expect financial and emotional support from social networks. In this context, this study asserts the positive effects of the social networks on people's career stress and uncertainty. A questionnaire was applied to 196 students studying in the gastronomy departments in Istanbul to investigate thesis in question. The data obtained from the questionnaires was first described in the SPSS program and then hierarchical regression was analyzed within three stages. According to the results of the questionnaire, it was determined that the expectation of support in social networks has a positive effect on career stress and uncertainty in the process of career decision besides playing a strong mediation role between career stress and stability.