This study describes the development and evaluation of a short form of the widely used Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale (CDMSE; Taylor & Betz, 1983). The psychometric characteristics and ...

Evaluation of a Short Form of the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale:

This study examined the relation of self-efficacy beliefs to subjects' persistence and success in pursuing science and engineering college majors. Subjects were 42 students who participated in a 10-week career-planning course on science and engineering fields. They completed several measures of self-efficacy , involving their perceived ability to fulfill the educational requirements and job duties of a variety of technical/sci entific occupations. Findings indicated that subjects reporting high self-efficacy for educational requirements generally achieved higher grades and persisted longer in technical/scientific majors over the following year than those with low self-efficacy. Self-efficacy was also moderately correlated with objective predictors of academic aptitude and achievement. Implications for the further extension of self-efficacy theory to educational and vocational behavior are discussed. Bandura (1977, 1982) has recently proposed a theoretical framework to explain and predict behavior change. Essentially, he has suggested that behavior changes achieved by diverse methods are mediated by a common cognitive mechanism. Self-efficacy expectations, meaning beliefs about one's ability to successfully perform a given task or behavior, are hypothesized to determine whether coping behavior will be initiated, how much effort will be expended, and how long effort will be sustained in the face of obstacles and aversive experiences. Thus far, perceived self-efficacy has been studied in relation to a variety of clinical problems such as snake phobias (Bandura & Adams, 1977), social skills (Moe & Zeiss, 1982), and smoking cessation maintenance (DiClemente, 1981). Results have generally suggested that persons' efficacy expectations are useful in predicting behavior change independently of the different treatment approaches used. Recently, Hackett and Betz (1981) have extended self-efficacy theory to vocational behavior, hypothesizing that ex

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Relation of self-efficacy expectations to academic achievement and persistence.

A general theoretical taxonomy of career decision-making difficulties, based on decision theory, has been developed To examine the proposed taxonomy empirically, a questionnaire was constructed in which the various possible difficulties in the theoretical model were represented by respective statements The questionnaire was administered to a sample of 259 young Israeli adults who were at the beginning of their career decision-making process and to an American sample of 304 university students The observed relations among the 10 scales, which represent the 10 theoretical categories of difficulties, and those among the items within 2 selected categories, were similar in the 2 samples and compatible with the expected relations derived from the theoretical model The implications for career counseling and research are discussed The growing rate of change in the world of work increases the number of career transitions individuals make during their lifetime The quality of the career decisions made during these transitions is significant for both the individual and society Making a career decision is, however, a complex process Although some people make such decisions easily, at least apparently, others face difficulties in making their career decisions, and many seek professional help One of the central aims of career counseling is to facilitate the career decision-making process of counselees and, in particular, to help them overcome the difficulties they encounter during this process Therefore, identifying the unique difficulties that prevent individuals from reaching a decision is an essential step in providing them with the help they need The construct of career indecision has been used to refer to the problems individuals may have in making their career decision (for a review, see Slaney, 1988) Because of its recognized significance, career indecision is one of the central research issues of career psychology (Betz, 1992;

A taxonomy of difficulties in career decision making

Career self-efficacy: Empirical status and future directions

In this article self-efficacy research is reviewed in domains relevant to education Research addressing cognitive skills, social skills, motor skills, and career choices has shown that self-efficacy is an important construct that helps to explain students' learning and performance of achievement-related behaviors Research also has identified variables that are associated with educational contexts and that signal to students how well they are achieving or making progress in learning These task-engagement variables include models/social comparative information, goal setting, attributional and performance feedback, strategy instruction, cognitive processing, and reward contingencies A suggested future self-efficacy research agenda might include maintenance and generalization of changes in self-efficacy, the identification of additional task-engagement variables, instrument development and validation, integration of efficacy information from diverse sources, developmental influences on self-efficacy, and teachers' sense of efficacy

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Karen M Taylor

Papers

Applications of self-efficacy theory to the understanding and treatment of career indecision

Evaluation of a Short Form of the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale:

An examination of the relationships among career decision-making self-efficacy, career salience, locus of control, and vocational indecision.

An investigation of vocational indecision in college students: Correlates and moderators

Concurrent Validity of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory for Graduate Students in Counseling