從國際學生的角度出發，結合台灣留住外國人才的吸引力，透過社會認知職業理論，本研究旨在探討影響國際學生就業能力認知的因素。 這種認知在學生規劃職業生涯時發生，涉及文化智力和人際支持。 此外，本研究探討了一種自我評估因素（即自效能）在就業能力認知與文化智力之間的相關性中可能的中介效應。 提出的研究模型透過對在台灣進行結構化調查的198名國際學生所收集的資料進行測試。 採用分層迴歸來評估收集到的資料。 結果表明，文化智力影響國際學生對就業能力的認知，而人際支持對就業能力的認知影響被發現是不顯著的。 此外，文化智力對就業能力的影響與自效能完全中介。 這項研究有望為目前有關就業能力認知的文獻增添新的內容，同時為保留策略提供實際意義。

From a perception of an international student, combined with the attraction in retaining foreign talents of Taiwan, through social cognitive career theory, the goal of this research is to look into what affects international students’ perceived employabiliy, which occurs when students are planning for their career path, on their cultural intelligence and relational support. Moreover, this research explores the potential mediating effect of a self-assessment factor (i.e. self-efficacy) in the correlation between perceived employability and cultural intelligence. The proposed research model was tested with data collected from 198 international students studying in both long-term (bachelor, master, doctoral) and short-term (exchange,language) in Taiwan joining a structured survey. Hierarchical regression is utilized to assess the collected data. The results indicate that cultural intelligence influences international students’ perception of employability, whereas the impact of relational support to perceived employability is found to be insignificant. Furthermore, the association between cultural intelligence on perceived employability is fully mediated by self-efficacy. This research is expected to add to the current literature on perceived employability while also providing pratical implications for retention strategies.

Thesis Validation letter i
摘要 ii
Abstract iii
Table of figures vi
Table of tables vi
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 1
1.1. Research background 1
1.2. Research structure 3
CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 4
2.1. The social cognitive career theory 4
2.2. Perceived Employability 5
2.3. Cultural Intelligence 7
2.4. Self-efficacy 9
2.5. Relational support 10
2.6. How does cultural intelligence impact on perceived employability? 10
2.7. The role of self-efficacy 12
2.8. The effect of relational support to perceived employability 13
CHAPTER 3. RESEARCH DESIGN 15
3.1. Overview of subject 15
3.1.1 Overview of Taiwan 15
3.1.2 Labor structure in Taiwan 16
3.1.3 International student in Taiwan 20
3.2. Research progress 21
3.3. Scale development 22
3.4. Sample design 25
3.4.1 Participants 25
3.4.2 Sample size 25
3.4.3 Questionnaire design 26
3.5. Prepare for analysis 27
3.5.1 Coding 27
3.6. Analysis method 30
CHAPTER 4. RESULT 36
4.1. Description analysis 36
4.1.1 Demographic variables 36
4.1.2 Cultural Intelligence 37
4.1.3 Self-efficacy 40
4.1.4 Self-perceived employability 41
4.1.5 Relational support 42
4.2. Reliability analysis 42
4.3. Exploratory Factor Analysis 45
4.4. Pearson Correlation 47
4.5. Hypothesis testing 48
4.5.1 Regression analysis 48
4.5.2 Mediator analysis 51
CHAPTER 5. DISCUSSION 54
5.1. Discussion 54
5.2. Implication 55
5.3. Future direction 56
REFERENCE 58
APPENDIX 61

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