Guided Imagery and Its Effect on Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy, Career Indecision, and Career Exploration

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica L. Behrens ◽  
Margaret M. Nauta
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Guided Imagery ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Career Exploration ◽  
Career Indecision ◽  
Career Decision Making

Autonomous Versus Controlled Motivation on Career Indecision: The Mediating Effect of Career Exploration

2021 ◽  
pp. 089484532199254
Author(s):  
Olímpio Paixão ◽  
Vítor Gamboa
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Career Exploration ◽  
Career Indecision ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Controlled Motivation

Effective career decision-making outcomes may depend on the type of motivation underlying career development. The purpose of this study was to analyze how autonomous and controlled motivation predict exploration behaviors and career indecision and in which degree the effect of motivation on indecision is mediated by career exploration (environmental exploration, self-exploration, intended-systematic exploration and amount of information), among a group of high-school students (10th, 11th, and 12th grades, N = 523, M = 16.40). An integrative model was tested using path analysis to test direct and indirect effects and model fit (AMOS 20.0). The final model showed good fit to the data. Three indirect effects were found significant, being self-exploration, and amount of information presented as mediators. Our results highlight the importance to design career interventions not only focusing on promoting exploration behaviors but also on creating purposeful planning, based on students’ reasons underlying their involvement in the career decision-making process.

scholarly journals Difficulties in Career Decision Making and Self-Evaluations: A Meta-Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 608-635
Author(s):  
Shagini Udayar ◽  
Nimrod Levin ◽  
Yuliya Lipshits-Braziler ◽  
Shékina Rochat ◽  
Annamaria Di Fabio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Career Indecision ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Inconsistent Information ◽  
Lack Of Information

This meta-analysis examined the association between two types of difficulties in career decision making—indecision and indecisiveness—and four types of self-evaluations: generalized self-efficacy, process-related self-efficacy, content-related self-efficacy, and self-esteem. Analyses were conducted on data from 86 studies ( N = 54,160): Process-related self-efficacy showed stronger negative associations with career indecision than did generalized self-efficacy, content-related self-efficacy, or self-esteem. In contrast, self-esteem showed stronger negative associations with indecisiveness than with career indecision. The second part of this meta-analysis focused on differential associations between two types of self-evaluations (process-related self-efficacy and self-esteem) and the three major clusters of difficulties in career decision making (lack of readiness, lack of information, and inconsistent information). Based on 19 studies ( N = 7,953), the findings showed that process-related self-efficacy was strongly and negatively associated with lack of information and inconsistent information. In contrast, self-esteem was only weakly related to the three major clusters of difficulties in career decision making. In showing that each type of self-evaluation was more strongly associated with certain types and causes of difficulties in career decision making, the present article highlighted the importance of self-evaluations in the career decision-making process.

Decision-making self-efficacy mediates the peer support–career exploration relationship

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 485-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huafeng Zhang ◽  
Haitao Huang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Career Exploration ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Career Information ◽  
Distal Support ◽  
The Relationship

We explored the mediating effect of decision-making self-efficacy in the relationship between undergraduates' perceived career-related peer support and career exploration. Participants were 650 junior and senior undergraduates from 6 public universities in Shanghai, China. The key results were as follows: (1) career information and suggestion, emotional support, and peer role models were the 3 dominant factors of career-related peer support; (2) career-related peer support was positively and significantly correlated with career exploration; and (3) career decision-making self-efficacy mediated the relationship between career-related peer support and career exploration. Specifically, career information and suggestion and peer role models provided proximal and distal support, promoting individuals' career exploration not only directly but also indirectly through career decision-making self-efficacy. In comparison, emotional support from peers provided only distal support, promoting individual career exploration indirectly through career decision-making self-efficacy. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings, study limitations, and future research directions are discussed.

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