Gail Hackett

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a social cognitive framework for understanding three intricately linked aspects of career development: (a) the formation and elaboration of career-relevant interests, (b) selection of academic and career choice options, and (c) performance and persistence in educational and occupational pursuits.

TL;DR: A recent review of the career barriers literature presents a mixed picture as discussed by the authors, on the one hand, students and workers do perceive barriers to their career progress; but on the other hand, barrier ratings are often found to be besomewhat modest in size and have not been shown to be consistently related to important career outcome or process variables in the mostly student samples in which they have been studied.

TL;DR: An approach to the conceptualization and facilitation of women's career development based on A. Bandura's (Social learning theory) self-efficacy theory is presented in this article, where women lack strong expectations of personal efficacy in relationship to many career-related behaviors and thus fail to fully realize their capabilities and talents in career pursuits.

TL;DR: In this article, the applicability of Bandura's self-efficacy theory to the process of career decision making and, in particular, to investigate the possible importance of selfefficacy expectations in the explanation of women's continued underrepresentation in many professional and managerial occupations was investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship of mathematics self-efficacy expectations to the selection of science-based majors in college males and females, and found that mathematics selfefficacy expectation was significantly related to the extent to which students selected science based college majors, thus supporting the role of cognitive mediational factors in educational and career choice behavior.