Career Development Attributes and Occupational Values of Asian American and White American College Students

1991 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick T. L. Leong
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Asian American ◽  
White American ◽  
Occupational Values

scholarly journals Personal Gambling Expectancies Among Asian American and White American College Students

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Ka Ki Chan ◽  
Nolan Zane ◽  
Gloria M. Wong ◽  
Anna V. Song
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Asian American ◽  
White American

Cultural Factors, Perceived Barriers, and Asian American Career Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Kantamneni ◽  
Kavitha Dharmalingam ◽  
Grant Orley ◽  
Sutha K. Kanagasingam
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Outcome Expectations ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Perceived Barriers ◽  
Efficacy Outcome ◽  
Asian American College Students

Contextual factors can play an important and influential role in the career development of Asian American students. The purpose of this study was to examine how specific cultural factors, such as ethnic identity, internalization of Asian American stereotypes, Asian values, parental influences, and perceived barriers, predicted Asian American college students’ self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and interests in occupations and academic areas in which Asian Americans are highly represented. Two social cognitive career theory models were tested in this study: the first model examined how distal and proximal contextual influences predicted self-efficacy and interests in occupations with high Asian American representation and the second model examined how distal and proximal contextual variables predicted math and science self-efficacy, outcome expectations, goals, and intentions. Three hundred and eighty-one Asian American college students participated in this study. The findings from path analyses found a strong fit for the first model, suggesting that distal and proximal contextual factors predicted self-efficacy and interests in occupations with high Asian American representation. An adequate fit was found for the second model. The findings from this study provide psychologists and counselors with a more nuanced understanding of how career decisions are made for Asian American college students.

Examining the Role of Ethnic Identity and Meaning in Life on Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jioni A. Lewis ◽  
Trisha L. Raque-Bogdan ◽  
Sharon Lee ◽  
Mrinalini A. Rao
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
African American ◽  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Life Meaning

In emerging adulthood, establishing a sense of self and life meaning is a key developmental task for career development. This study examined the role of ethnic identity and meaning in life in career decision self-efficacy (CDSE) among African American, Asian American, and White incoming, first-year, college students ( n = 2,470). Using hierarchical multiple regression analysis, we found that ethnic identity and meaning in life predicted between 14% and 26% of the variance in CDSE for African American, Asian American, and White students. Mediation analyses for each ethnic group revealed that the presence of life meaning mediated the relations between ethnic identity and CDSE. Ethnic identity appears to be associated with positive career development, in part, through the cultivation of life meaning for ethnically diverse college students. Implications for research and career counseling with ethnically diverse college students are discussed.

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