Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale Research Articles

Educational Choice and the Willingness to Apply of Higher Vocational Students in Guangdong Province, China: The Mediating Role of Career Decision-making Self-efficacy

The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of educational choice on the intention to enter the examination, and the mediating role of career decision-making self-efficacy. A total of 1391 freshmen from six higher vocational colleges in Guangdong Province of China were investigated with Education Choices Scale, Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale and Willingness to Apply Scale. The results showed that educational choice and career decision-making self-efficacy had significant effects on the willingness to apply. Career decision-making self-efficacy plays a mediating role in the significant positive impact of educational choice on the willingness to apply. Therefore, China's educational institutions and policy makers should focus on cultivating vocational students' career decision-making self-efficacy and improving their confidence and ability in career decision-making. To help students better understand their interests, values, and career goals, and to help students better understand the career fields they face professionally.

The impact of final-year clinical placements on nursing students' career planning for the graduate year and beyond

AimsThis study had three objectives: 1) to determine final-year nursing students' career preferences and long-term career plans; 2) to investigate factors influencing nursing students' specialty choices following their final-year clinical placement(s); and 3) to understand how final-year clinical placements can be used to develop the career interests of nursing students to different nursing specialties. BackgroundClinical placement provides an insightful experience that may influence students to feel inclined to work in certain specialties. Therefore, each clinical placement should promote students' learning and enhance positive experiences that could develop their career interests and encourage them to seek employment in the specialty on graduation. DesignA cross-sectional online survey. MethodsThe survey was structured using the Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale – Short Form. The questionnaire was distributed to final-year nursing students (N = 222) at two public universities in Western Australia. This study specifically reports on the Goal selection and Planning domains of the Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale – Short Form, which were explored through additional questions prompting participants to explain their career preferences and reasons for their nursing specialty choices. ResultsMost participants, fifty-three percent, had low confidence in making career decisions. The Goal Selection and Planning questions measured the students' confidence in choosing a suitable practice destination and preparing for their professional careers. Overall, participants prefer employment in hospital settings both in the short- and long-term aspects of their nursing career. The factors influencing the students' career decisions were classified into three main categories: the clinical environment, educational factors and individual factors. ConclusionsThe nursing curriculum may encourage nursing students to work in some specialties over others. This study provides insight into factors that may promote or inhibit students' career choices and how students may be motivated to pursue the less preferred nursing specialties.

Self-ageism among women in Greece: The role of burnout in career decision-making self-efficacy

The present research attempts to identify the role of age in women’s working lives. It studies the factors and aspects of women’s working lives that are affected by age and whether the burnout they experience affects their self-efficacy in the way they make professional decisions. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted in Greece. To obtain the data a structured, online, self-administered questionnaire was used. The questionnaire consists of 25 questions referring to the variable of burnout (Maslach Burnout Inventory — MBI), 25 questions concerning self-efficacy in career decision-making (career decision self-efficacy scale short form — CDSES-SF), and 25 questions concerning demographic data. The collected data was processed using the R language. The findings show that age and gender are very important factors influencing career development (Aliyev & Tunc, 2015). Age, therefore, plays a key role in women’s working lives (Loretto et al., 2000). The study adds value to existing research on ageism by focusing on the consequences for women’s professional lives in Greece. The findings can help in the formulation and development of targeted interventions to empower women and train them to improve their self-efficacy in terms of professional decision-making.

학교폭력 가해청소년의 진로의사결정과 진로결정자기효능감이 진로준비행동에 미치는 효과

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of career decision-making and career decision-making self-efficacy of school-violence perpetrators on career preparation behavior. A total of 250 youths were selected for this study through convenient sampling of the perpetrators who were disciplined by the School Violence Countermeasures Committee or the Student Guidance Committee at general middle and high schools located in J-do. To measure career decision-making, the Career Decision Scale(ACDM) was utilized. Career decision self-efficacy was assessed using the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale(CDMSES-SF), and career preparation behavior was measured using the Career Preparation Behavior Scale. Data analysis was conducted using SPSS 21.0 Windows, including correlation analysis, simple regression analysis, and stepwise regression analysis. The results of this study are as follows. First, the career decision-making of the perpetrators of school violence showed a positive correlation with career preparation behavior. Second, the career decision-making self-efficacy of the perpetrators of school violence showed a positive correlation with career preparation behavior. Third, it was confirmed that the effect of career decision-making ability and self-efficacy on career preparation behavior of adolescents who committed school violence had a direct effect on career preparation behavior. This study attempted to contribute to basic research by revealing that career decision-making and self-efficacy had a direct effect on career preparation behavior for adolescents who committed school violence.

Research on the impact of basic psychological needs satisfaction on career adaptability of Chinese college students.

With social changes, the realization of smooth and satisfactory employment of college students is an issue that requires deep thought. Basic psychological needs satisfaction play an important role as a guiding factor that affects students' career adaptability. This study aims to explore the relationship and mechanism between the satisfaction of students' basic psychological needs satisfaction and their career adaptability. A survey is conducted among students from six different universities across the country, using the Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction Scale, the Career Adaptability Scale, the Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale, and the Career Outcome Expectations Scale. The satisfaction of basic psychological needs, career decision self-efficacy, and career outcome expectations are all significantly positively correlated with career adaptability.Career decision self-efficacy plays a partial mediating role between basic psychological needs satisfaction and career adaptability among college students. The moderated mediation model found that career outcome expectations play a regulatory role in the effect of career decision self-efficacy on career adaptability. College students' basic psychological need satisfaction can positively predict career adaptability directly and indirectly affect career adaptability through career decision self-efficacy, and career outcome expectations have a moderating role between career decision self-efficacy and career adaptability.

The relationship between professional self-concept and career decision-making difficulties among postgraduate nursing students in China: the mediating role of career decision-making self-efficacy.

In the context of a global shortage, uneven distribution, and structural imbalance of nursing talent, postgraduate nursing students must make appropriate decisions about their careers not only for the nursing profession but also for society as a whole. However, little research has been reported on the current status and factors influencing career decision-making difficulties among postgraduate nursing students. Exploring the mediating role of career decision-making self-efficacy between professional self-concept and career decision-making difficulties among postgraduate nursing students in China based on the social cognitive career theory. 276 postgraduate nursing students from 25 universities in seven administrative regions of China were selected by stratified random sampling. Data were collected with the Career decision-making difficulties Questionnaire, Career Decision-making Self-Efficacy Scale, and Nursing Professional Self-concept Scale through an online survey, and were analyzed by univariate analysis, correlation analysis, multiple linear regression analysis, and PROCESS macro. The score for career decision-making difficulties was 2.84 (SD = 0.54). Professional self-concept (r = -0.496, p < 0.01) and career decision-making self-efficacy (r = -0.551, p < 0.01) were negatively associated with career decision-making difficulties. Career decision-making self-efficacy played a partial mediating role between professional self-concept and career decision-making difficulties (p < 0.01), with the mediating effect (Effect Value = -0.253, Bootstrap 95% CI: -0.349, -0.156) accounting for 53.82% of the total effect. The high scores of career decision-making difficulties among postgraduate nursing students demand widespread attention. Nursing educators need to develop a complete and standardized career counseling curriculum for postgraduate nursing students, and should pay attention to the cultivation and development of positive professional self-concept and career decision-making self-efficacy of postgraduate nursing students to reduce their career decision-making difficulties and help them make effective career decision-making.

Investigation of Protective Factors against Career Stress of Senior University Students Using Mixed Pattern Method

Career stress includes negative career experiences such as encountering career barriers, career indecision. This research aims to analyse and evaluate the protective factors against the career stress of senior university students with mixed-method research. For this purpose, an embedded design was used. A total of 353 individuals [AgeMean =23.55, AgeSd = 3.87], determined by sampling method, participated in the research. Data, Dispositional Hope Scale, Career Adaptabilities Scale, Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale, Career Stress Inventory, and Online Questionnaire were used. Structural equation modeling was used in quantitative data analysis. The content analysis technique was used for qualitative data analysis. As a result of the structural equation modeling analysis in quantitative findings, a protective structural model was obtained against the career stresses of senior university students. The participants revealed several ways to cope with career stress in qualitative findings. The study also examines hope, expectations for self-development, orientation towards activities that make senior students feel good, presence of those experiencing similar stress, positive inculcation, and evaluation of the effects of intrinsic/extrinsic motivators.

Construct validity test on the Indonesian version of Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale (CDSES)

This study aimed to assess the construct validity of Indonesian version of the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale (CDSES) by conducting a convergent evidence test. This version comprised 30 items that measured individual confidence in making career-related decision across seven dimensions, including occupational information (OI), goal selection (GS), self-appraisal (SA), school achievement (ScA), problem-solving (PS), social support (SS), and planning. Despite passing the content validity test, CDSES-Indonesian version lacked psychometric properties in terms of convergent evidence. A construct validation analysis was carried out, incorporating the NEO-PI instruments developed by Costa &amp; McCrae in 1992 into CDSES-Indonesia version. This study involved 211 respondents, including 123 women and 88 men aged between 17 and 35, all being university students. Google Form was used as a platform to distribute the questionnaires for the two measuring instruments to the participants. The results showed a significant relationship between CDSES and personality traits. Four personality traits, namely conscientiousness, openness, extraversion, and agreeableness, exhibited positive correlations with CDSES, while neuroticism showed a negative relationship.

How do personality traits influence adolescents' career anxiety and self-efficacy in making career decisions?

The aim of this study was to search for the links between adolescent career anxiety, career decision-making self-efficacy, and adjective-based personality traits, as well as to see how predictive adjective-based personality qualities are for career anxiety and decision-making self-efficacy. A total of 710 students, 511 girls (72%) and 199 boys (28%) from various high schools in Istanbul, Turkey, made up the research group. Predictive correlational model was used in the analysis of the data while Career Anxiety Scale, Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale and Adjective-Based Personality Scale were used as data collection tools. After providing the normality assumptions and checking extreme values, data analysis was carried out. Standard multiple regression analysis was performed to examine the predictive potential of personality traits based on adjectives on career anxiety and career decision-making self-efficacy, while Pearson Correlation analysis was utilized to determine the relationship between the variables. As a result of the study, several significant correlations between adolescent career anxiety, career decision-making self-efficacy, and adjective-based personality traits were discovered. It was also discovered that adjective-based personality traits predicted career anxiety and competence expectation in career decision-making.

대학 운동선수들의 은퇴불안, 진로결정 자기효능감, 진로준비행동의 관계

Objectives The purposes of this study were to investigate the structural relationship model of retirement anxiety, career decision-making self-efficacy and career preparation behavior of athletes in college. Methods The participants of this study consisted using of 415 athletes who were more than 18 years old with more than 3 years experience of competition. They were assessed by retirement anxiety scale, career decision-making self-efficacy scale and career preparation behavior scale. The evaluation questionnaires were modified to reflect the circumstances in Korea and underwent a validity test prior to translation. The data were conducted by descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, and structure equation modelling. Results First, retirement anxiety had no a influence on career decision-making self-efficacy. Second, retirement anxiety had a positive influence on career preparation behavior. Third, career decision-making self-efficacy had a positively influence on career preparation behavior. Conclusions The result of this study suggests the need of developing programs and providing necessary support aimed at improving college athletes' decision-making self-efficacy and career preparation behavior through career counseling and education.&#x0D;

Development and testing of the career decision-making self-efficacy scale for nursing students: a methodological study

BackgroundThe conventional Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale does not reflect the situation in Korea due to different sociocultural attributes and fails to account for the unique nursing profession and changes in healthcare. We aimed to develop and psychometrically test the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale for Nursing Students.MethodsA methodological study using a newly developed questionnaire tool and investigation of the validity and reliability of the preliminary instrument. Data were collected from 400 nursing students through an online survey conducted in May 2021. We identified 56 preliminary items through a literature review and focus group interviews. Of them, 40 were completed with a content validity index > .80. Content, construct, and criterion-related validity; internal consistency reliability; and test-retest reliability were used in the analysis.ResultsExploratory factor analysis revealed three factors including 21 items: adapting to work (20.5%), understanding the major (20.2%), and goal setting (16.4%), explaining 57.1% of the total variance. As a result of confirmatory factor analysis, 17 items in the three-factor structure were validated. Reliability, as verified by the test-retest interclass correlation coefficient, was .86 and Cronbach’s α was .92. The final Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale for Nursing Students consists of 17 items: adapting to work (7 items); understanding the major (4 items); and goal setting (6 items).ConclusionThe scale developed to measure the career decision-making self-efficacy of nursing students showed sufficient validity and reliability.

The Effect of the Career Psychoeducation Program on the Career Decision Self-Efficacy and Educational Outcome Expectations of Eleventh-Grade Students

This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of a career psychoeducation program developed based on the social cognitive career theory in career decision self-efficacy and educational outcome expectations of eleventh grade students. The study used a quasi-experimental model with a pretest-posttest control group design. The experimental process of the study was designed according to a 2x3 mixed (split-plot) design with a control group including pretest, posttest, and follow-up measurements. This process was carried out with 36 eleventh greleventh grade students, including 18 in experimental and 18 in control groups. The study data were collected using the Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale–Short Form and the Educational Outcome Expectations Scale. During the experimental process, an eleven-week career psychoeducation program was carried out in the experimental group, and no intervention was conducted in the control group. As a result of the study, it was found that there was a significant difference in favor of the experimental group students in terms of the mean scores obtained from the career decision self-efficacy and educational outcome expectations and that this difference between the mean scores was also maintained in the follow-up measurements. The findings of the effectiveness of the career psychoeducation program on the career decision self-efficacy and educational outcome expectations of eleventh grade students were discussed in the light of the related literature.

Analysis of Relationships between High School Students’ Career Maturity, Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy, and Career Decision-Making Difficulties

The study analyzed the relationships between high school students’ career maturity, career decision-making difficulties, and career decision-making self-efficacy and aimed to investigate whether career maturity, career decision-making difficulties and career decision-making self-efficacy altered according to gender, type of school, and grade level. The study sample was composed of 665 high school students attending five different high schools in Bursa. The data collection tools included the Career Decision-making Difficulties Questionnaire, the Career Maturity Scale, and the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale. Among quantitative research methods, a correlation model was applied. The analysis results revealed a weak but significant negative relationship between career maturity and career decision-making difficulties scale in terms of total scores and subscale scores. Additionally, there was a medium- and low-level significant negative relationship between the career decision-making difficulties scale total and subscale scores, and the career decision-making self-efficacy total and subscale scores. The subsequent analysis to describe the mediating role of career decision-making self-efficacy demonstrated that career decision-making self-efficacy had a partial mediating role. Furthermore, male students were found to have a more disadvantaged status than did female students in terms of career maturity. Based on the fact that students’ career decision-making difficulties stemmed from the aspect of a lack of readiness, psycho education programs can be organized to determine the reasons for the lack of lack of readiness, find solutions, and provide the necessary information and skills. Future studies may focus on examining the reasons for the career maturity level differences.

The Relationship between Parenting Style and Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy in Undergraduates: Mediating Effect of Work Values

Objective To explore the characteristics of parenting style, work values and career&#x0D; decision making self-efficacy in undergraduates and analyze the relationship among the above&#x0D; 3 variables. Method: Eight hundred and forty-nine undergraduates were selected by stratified&#x0D; random sampling from 7 universities in Guangdong province. Short-Form Egna Minnen av&#x0D; Barndoms Uppfostran (s-EMBU), Work Values Scale for College Students (WVS) and&#x0D; Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy Scale (CDMSES) were administred to them.&#x0D; Results: ⑴ The score of parental control was at a low level; The scores of parental care, social&#x0D; promotion, ease and stability, salary and reputation, benifits and welfare, total scores and five&#x0D; dimensions of CDMSES belong to the medium level; The scores of the other 6 dimensions of&#x0D; WVS belong to high scores. ⑵ Purposeful values play a partial mediating role in the&#x0D; relationship between parental care and career decision making self-efficacy, and the mediating&#x0D; effect accounts for 33.9% of the total effect; Instrumental values play a partial mediating role in&#x0D; the relationship between parental care and career decision making self-efficacy, with the mediating&#x0D; effect accounting for 11.1% of the total effect; Work values play a partial mediating role in the&#x0D; relationship between parental care and career decision making self-efficacy, and the mediating&#x0D; effect accounts for 30.4% of the total effect. Conclusion: Parental care can not only directly&#x0D; predict college students' career decision making self-efficacy, but also indirectly affect it through&#x0D; work values.

The Relationship between PGI and College Students' Career Decision Making Self-efficacy: A Chain Mediation Model

To explore the influencing factors and mechanism of career decision making self-efficacy of college students, the research uses PGIS-Ⅱ, Future Time Perspective Scale, Academic Engagement Scale, and Career Decision Making Self-efficacy Scale to investigate 148 college students. The results show that PGI, career decision making self-efficacy, future time Perspective, and academic engagement are significantly positively correlated; future time perspective and academic engagement play a mediating role between PGI and college students' career decision making self-efficacy; PGI significantly predicted career decision making self-efficacy through the chain mediation of future time perspective and academic engagement.

The Relationship between Personality and Career Decision Making Self Efficacy Among Pra-University Student at Machang, Kelantan.

This study was conducted to explore the differences in personality and level of career decision-making self-efficacy (CDMSE) by gender among pre-university students. Besides, this study also conducted to identify the relationship between personality and CDMSE among pre-university students. This study uses a mixed method design in determining the relationship between personality and self-efficacy in career decision making. The respondent be selected by using simple random sampling method, as 175 student Pre-University and 5 respondents were selected to interview in obtaining qualitative findings. Data was collected by using Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2) and Career Decision Making Self-efficacy Scale Short Form (CDMSE-SF). Data analyzed using Statistical Package Social Science 25.0 (SPSS). The results showed no difference between conscientiousness (t(173)=0.280,p&lt;0.05), openness (t(173)=0.613,p&lt;0.05), neuroticism (t(173)=1.434,p&lt;0.05), agreeableness (t(173)=0.857, p&lt;0.05, extraversion (t(173)=-0.559, p&lt;0.05) and level of CDMSE (t(173)=1.558, p&lt;0.05). The finding also revealed that conscientiousness, (r=0.505**, n=175, p&lt;0.05) openness, (r=0.212**, n=175, p&lt;0.05) neuroticism, (r=0.366**, n = 175, p&lt;0.05) and extraversion (r=0.486**, n=175, p&lt;0.05) had a significant relationship with CDMSE among Pre-University students. However, there is no significant relationship between agreeableness and CDMSE (r=0.128, n=175, p&lt;0.05). The result was supported by qualitative findings, which show the relationship between personality and CDMSE. This study is significant for students, counselor, and educators in helping students related to their careers.

My Fate Is My Decision: The Differential Effects of Fate and Criticality of Decision Beliefs on Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy

Dysfunctional career decision-making beliefs (DCB) impede career decision making (CDM) process in several ways. This study proposes to delineate the profiles of two career-specific dysfunctional beliefs, fate (FB) and criticality of decision (CB) through their differential effects on career decision self-efficacy (CDSE) in undergraduate students. A sample of 157 undergraduate students (aged M = 21.07, SD = 1.78, 87.2% female) completed the fate and criticality beliefs subscales of Dysfunctional Career Decision-Making Beliefs Scale, Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale and Career Satisfaction Scale. Two-step cluster analyses was provided for delineating the profiles of combined variables of fate and criticality beliefs. As the result, four clusters emerged: criticality of decision beliefs (CB), fate beliefs (FB), negotiable fate beliefs (NFB) and no dysfunctional beliefs (NB) group. Clusters did not differ in terms of gender, age, GPA or career satisfaction. The profiles of DCB did not differ in CDSE; statistically significant group differences were only found for career goal selection. More specifically, FB group showed significantly less self-efficacy in setting their career goals as compared to CB or NFB groups. Results indicate that dysfunctional fate beliefs are associated with low perceived self-efficacy regarding the selection of goals in the process of career decision-making. However, the effect of FBs can be buffered by CBs, dysfunctional of their kind, suggesting that negotiable FBs have a more favourable effect on career related goal selection self-efficacy as they draw back the process of CDM under personal influence.

Is there a relationship between the time management skills of sports manager candidates and career decision self-efficacy?

This study aims to examine the relationship between the time management skills of sports management students and their career decision self-efficacy. The study group of the study research consisted of 279 Sports Management Department students who were studying in the Faculty of Sport Sciences at a public university located in Manisa, Turkey during the 2018-2019 academic year. "Time Management Scale", “Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale” and "personal information form" were used as data collection tools. As a result of the study, a positive, moderately significant relationship was found between students' time management skills and career decision self-efficacy levels.

A psychometric evaluation of the career decision making self-efficacy scale

The assessment tool for a career currently being developed requires special treatment from a psychologist/psychometrist. The measurements are conducted when students are confused about career options. However, for students who have decided, it is uncommon for them to seek professional help. Psychological tools that focus on capturing information about students’ maturity in relation to their ability to make career decisions can help them choose a major that’s suitable for their career. This study concern on adapting the career decision-making self efficacy (CDMSE) that can predict one’s confidence in his/her ability to make career choices. The adaptation of this instrument went through several stages such as translation, back translation, testing the reliability, and testing the validity evidence of content and internal structure using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). This study used a sample of 539 high school students in Bandung and Cimahi. The construct reliability (CR) of the instrument was α=0.929. The evidence for internal structure using CFA showed that the CDMSE scale has an acceptable goodness of fit index. The standardized loading factor item in the range 0.710-0.998. It can be concluded that the Bahasa Indonesia version of the CDMSE scale has good psychometric properties and can be used for research or assessment to measure a person’s degree of confidence about his/her ability to make career choices.

The link between career outcomes expectancy and career decision-making self-efficacy of STEM students in a South African university

The Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), one of the highly researched career theories, suggested that outcomes expectance and self-efficacy are crucial factors in the career selection process. The result of career outcomes expectancy (COE) and career decision-making self-efficacy (CDSE) may be pivotal in an individual’s shunning or being more inspired in their career behaviour. Both factors together are important in career decision-making. The aim of this study was to investigate the association among COE and CDSE of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students at a South African university. The article is based on a quantitative study conducted among a sample of 322 STEM students, of which 203 responses were received. The career outcomes expectancy scale (COES) and career decision self-efficacy scale (CDSES) were used in the collection of data. Data were analysed with the IBM SPSS version 26 software and descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation, linear regression and multivariate analytical tools were engaged. Findings show that age and race significantly associated with CDSE. Additionally, COE was found to have a statistically significant relationship with CDSE and that CDSE positively predicted COE. The environment of upbringing was also found to be influential in participants’ CDSE and COE. In line with extant literature, the discussion of the findings is made to proffer recommendations that have implications for practice, policy and further studies.