Patterns of Career Choice and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the role of mastery goal orientation, support for career development, career decision-making self-efficacy and engineering interest in career adaptability for engineering students. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 307 Korean engineering students from two universities. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze data and examine the relationships among the variables. Findings The results indicated that the level of mastery of goal orientation and support for career development significantly affected career decision-making self-efficacy. Engineering students’ career decision-making self-efficacy also positively influenced their engineering interests and career adaptability. Finally, the students’ engineering interest positively affected their career adaptability. Originality/value This study demonstrated that important factors for career planning and development need to be successively considered during the career choice process by linking it to career decision-making self-efficacy, engineering interest and career adaptability (career choice action), in consecutive order.

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The Role of Personality and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy in the Career Choice Commitment of College Students

Journal of Career Assessment ◽

10.1177/1069072706286474 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 312-332 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Naitian Wang ◽

LaRae M. Jome ◽

Richard F. Haase ◽

Monroe A. Bruch

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Decision Making ◽

Career Choice ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Career Decision ◽

Career Decision Making

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Relationships of Career Self-Efficacy and Personality Variables with Status of Academic and Career Choice among Arab Students

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1994.75.3f.1571 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 75 (3_suppl) ◽

pp. 1571-1582 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ikhlas A. Abdalla

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Career Choice ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Career Decision ◽

Career Decision Making ◽

Nontraditional Occupations ◽

Efficacy Expectations ◽

The Status ◽

Vocational Indecision ◽

Occupational Preference

The present study was done to explore the predictive utility of self-efficacy expectations in career decision-making, vocational indecision, occupational preference and self-efficacy expectations, external orientation and instrumentality in the status of academic and career choice. A set of questionnaires was administered to 95 Qatari men, 145 Qatari women, and 89 Kuwaiti women and each sample was examined separately. Analysis indicated that, compared with women, men had higher mean preference and self-efficacy expectations regarding nontraditional occupations and they had lower preference and self-efficacy expectations regarding traditional occupations. Also, students who had decided on an academic major or career, compared with those who had made tentative decisions and the undecided, had higher scores on self-efficacy expectations in career decision-making, occupational self-efficacy expectations, and instrumentality, and lower scores on vocational indecision and external orientation. Results and implications are discussed in the context of the Arabian environment.

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