Decision-making Self-efficacy Research Articles

Codesign and evaluation of advanced therapeutic information resources for and with families of children with neurological conditions: a mixed methods cross-sectional study

ObjectiveParents and caregivers of children with neurological conditions express interest in new and developing treatments and trials; however, they have limited knowledge of, and access to, reliable information. This study...

Empowering high-school students from low-income families in career decision self-efficacy: a quasi-experimental study

Adolescents from low-income families generally have limited resources, which may negatively impact their career development. This study reports findings from the Youth Work-Explorer (Y-WE) career development program for 519 high-school students from low-income families in Hong Kong. One hundred forty-six participants received a three-day career training workshop plus work-attachment Y-WE intervention (group A); 190 received only Y-WE intervention (group B); 183 students were recruited as the control group received no intervention during the study. All participants completed a questionnaire containing three scales measuring extroversion, career knowledge, and career decision self-efficacy (CDSE) twice before and after the intervention. Relative T-tests and repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to determine the intervention’s effectiveness. Results indicated that compared with the control group, participants in group A significantly improved in extroversion and career knowledge, while participants in group B significantly increased their career knowledge and CDSE.

Differences in Career Decision Making Self Efficacy (CDMSE) Between Men and Women in Generation Z

The current phenomenon shows that teenagers often need more confidence in making career decisions. This study aimed to identify differences in the level of Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy (CDMSE) between male and female students in Senior High School (SMA). The type of research used was quantitative and used a comparative method. The population of this study was 640 students in grades XI and XII in high school. The sample of this study was 200 students taken using a random sampling technique. The method used in collecting data was a questionnaire. The instrument used was the CDMSES-SF scale developed by N.E. Betz. The data analysis technique used in this study was non-parametric analysis with the Mann-Whitney test. The results obtained from the data analysis showed significant differences in the level of CDMSE between male and female students. Male students have higher CDMSE than female students. For male students, special attention is needed on the planning and goal selection aspects, while for female students, it is on the planning aspect. These results suggest that male and female students need different approaches to career guidance, especially in planning and goal selection.

How protean career orientation affects career decidedness: The mediating role of career adaptability and career decision self-efficacy

How protean career orientation affects career decidedness: The mediating role of career adaptability and career decision self-efficacy

The Role of Environment and Self on Self-Efficacy in Students' Career Decision Making

This research aims to assess the influence of the level of peer attachment, teacher support, parental support, self-concept, and planned career events on the career decision-making self-efficacy of high school and vocational school students. This research used a cross-sectional study design with a quantitative approach. This research was conducted on 317 students, with 157 high school students and 160 vocational school students determined by cluster random sampling. Data was collected through questionnaires and analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with Smart-PLS. SEM test results showed a significant positive direct influence between parental support, teacher support, and peer attachment on the self-concept of parental support, parental support, and self-concept regarding planned happenstance career, and teacher support and planned happenstance career on career decision-making self-efficacy. Apart from that, there was an indirect influence between parental support, teacher support, and peer attachment on career decision-making self-efficacy through self-concept and planned happenstance careers. Therefore, parents need to shape their children's promising planned careers so that they can have self-efficacy for making sound career decisions as well.

Career Decision Self-efficacy mediates the relationship between General Self-efficacy and Career Decision-making of Undergraduate Students

Career Decision Self-efficacy mediates the relationship between General Self-efficacy and Career Decision-making of Undergraduate Students

Family system profiles and career decision self-efficacy among Chinese university students: a latent profile analysis

Family system profiles and career decision self-efficacy among Chinese university students: a latent profile analysis

The Effect of Shared Decision-making on Decision Self-efficacy and Decisional Conflict of Women with Low-grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesion in Cervical Cytology: An Experimental Study

Background: Women often face decisional challenges and hesitation while choosing the appropriate method to follow up on their abnormal results of cervix cytology. Objective: The present study aimed to determine the effect of shared decision-making (SDM) on decision self-efficacy (DSE) and decisional conflict (DC) about follow-up methods among women with abnormal cervix cytology results. Methods: This interventional study was performed on 54 women referred to the subspecialty clinic of gynecologic oncology. The women were assigned into intervention and control groups using a randomized block design with block sizes of 4 and 6 and an allocation ratio of 1:1. The intervention group received counseling based on the SDM and a decision aid (DA) booklet. The data collection tools included the questionnaires of the demographic and obstetrics characteristics, DC, DSE, and Decision Regret. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS24 software, and independent t-tests and ANCOVA were used. Results: After the intervention, the total mean score of the DC in the intervention group was significantly lower than that in the control group [MD: -22.84 with 95% CI: -23.52 to -21.95, (P <0.001)]. The mean score of DSE in the intervention group was significantly higher than that in the control group [MD: 14.56 with 95% CI: 21.47 to 7.65, (P <0.001)]. Conclusion: The present study results indicated that counseling based on the SDM effectively promotes DSE and reduces DC among women with minor abnormal cervical cytology. Therefore, it is recommended that healthcare providers use SDM for women with abnormal cervical cancer screening results.

The Effect of Social Support of Athletes on College Life Adaptation and Career Decision Self-Efficacy

The Effect of Social Support of Athletes on College Life Adaptation and Career Decision Self-Efficacy

Factors influencing career adaptation: The positive effects of mastery goal orientation, social support, and vocational decision self-efficacy

In the highly competitive employment environment, most college students have left their jobs for a short time after employment, and attention should be paid to students’ career adaptation. However, the further influence of skilled goal orientation, social support and career-determined self-efficacy on college students’ career adaptation needs to be confirmed. This study analyzes the effects of these factors on college students’ career adaptation. This study aims to analyze the impact of mastery goal orientation, social support, and vocational decision self-efficacy on career adaptation among 224 university students in East China. The results indicated that university students generally exhibit positive levels of mastery goal orientation, social support, vocational decision self-efficacy, and overall career adaptation. Female students demonstrate higher levels of mastery goal orientation, social support, vocational decision self-efficacy, and career adaptation compared to male students. As students progress in their academic years, their levels of mastery goal orientation, social support, vocational decision self-efficacy, and career adaptation tend to increase. Students majoring in humanities and social sciences have higher level than students majoring in science and engineering in all factors. Students majoring in humanities and social sciences exhibit more optimism in all factors compared to students in science and technology fields. The relationships among these factors show positive correlations. Mastery goal orientation, social support, and vocational decision self-efficacy all have positive effects on career adaptation. Among these, family support stands out as the most influential subordinate factor of social support on career adaptation. The most influential subordinate factor of vocational decision self-efficacy on career adaptation is conscious decision-making. Therefore, male, lower grade, science and engineering college students are the groups that need to be paid attention to in improving career adaptation. Skilled goal orientation, family support and conscious decision making have a better effect on the improvement of career adaptation. These results can provide important reference information for universities, counselors and college students in the training of career planning, and theoretically enrich the relevant research on college students’ career adaptation, and provide certain enlightenment for future researchers.

Instruments for Measuring Career Decision Self-Efficacy in High School Students: A Systematic Literature Review

Instruments for Measuring Career Decision Self-Efficacy in High School Students: A Systematic Literature Review

The Relationship Between Positive Psychological Capital, Career Decision Self-Efficacy, and Career Anxiety Among Taekwondo Majors

The Relationship Between Positive Psychological Capital, Career Decision Self-Efficacy, and Career Anxiety Among Taekwondo Majors

The Effect of Career Course on Career Decision Making Self-efficacy of Senior University Students

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of an “Interviewing Skills in Career Counseling” course on the level of career decision-making self-efficacy of senior university students. In this sense, the qualitative-quantitative category of mixed-methods was used. The Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale and course evaluation form were utilised to examine the effectiveness of this course, consisting of theory and practice for a total of 14 weeks. The experimental group includes of senior students from the Department of Counseling and Guidance who chose the course, while the control group includes of senior students who didn’t choose the course and were studying in the same department. Both groups were administered the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale as pre-test and post-test, and in addition to this, an evaluation form was used for the experimental group as a post-test. When the results obtained from the quantitative data are examined, the experimental group made progress and there was a significant difference between the experimental group and the control group in terms of the total score for career decision-making self-efficacy levels and the subscales of career decision-making self-efficacy in terms of job/occupational information, career choice and ways of creating a career plan. The qualitative findings were grouped into three categories: change as a result of the course, limitations and strengths of the implementation.

Higher education orientation in Türkiye: a cross-educational questionnaire validation and reliability study

AbstractThe present study aims to validate the Higher Education Orientations Questionnaire (HEOQ) among Turkish university students. The research comprises two studies: 201 Turkish university students were recruited for study 1, while 371 students took part in study 2. The HEOQ was translated in study 1. In study 2, criterion validity was tested by forming a hierarchical regression model on career decision self-efficacy. The HEOQ had adequate fit and measures for validity and reliability in the Turkish sample. Career decision self-efficacy was positively predicted by profession and negatively predicted by external orientation. Implications are presented for career development of university students.

Career adaptability and career coping styles among Chinese medicine specialty students during the COVID-19: The mediating role of career decision-making self-efficacy

Over the past decade, the attrition rate of Chinese medical graduates has remained high, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this situation. Medicine specialty students are the main force of the future healthcare industry. The career choices and career confidence of those entering the healthcare industry will have a huge influence on the quality of future healthcare provision. Considering the possible emergence of public health emergencies such as COVID-19 in the future, helping students develop good career adaptability will contribute to their future career development. However, the relationship between career adaptability, career coping styles and career decision-making self-efficacy remains unclear during the COVID-19. This study aims to examine the interconnections amongst career coping styles, career adaptability and career decision-making self-efficacy among Chinese medicine specialty students and the mediating role of career decision-making self-efficacy. Questionnaire survey was conducted on 747 medicine specialty students from China. The results showed that positive coping style has a significant positive correlation with career decision-making self-efficacy, career adaptability, and their sub-dimensions. There was a partial mediating effect of career decision self-efficacy between the predictor variable positive coping style and the outcome variable career adaptability. By promoting the level of positive coping style or career decision-making self-efficacy among medicine specialty students, the career adaptability can be directly or indirectly enhanced. This survey will help to guide future medical education decisions during a similar pandemic to prevent further loss of healthcare professionals in the medical service.

A Study on the Mediating Effect of Career Decision Self-efficacy in the Relationship between Education Service Quality and Major Satisfaction in Specialized High Schools: A Multi-Group Analysis between Gender

A Study on the Mediating Effect of Career Decision Self-efficacy in the Relationship between Education Service Quality and Major Satisfaction in Specialized High Schools: A Multi-Group Analysis between Gender

치위생학과 학생의 취업 스트레스, 자아존중감, 학과만족도가 진로결정 자기효능감에 미치는 영향

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between employment stress, self-respect, department satisfaction, and career decision self-efficacy of dental hygiene students. Methods: Data were collected through a self-administered survey. Data were collected from April 1 to April 19, 2023, and the final analysis subjects were 178 people. Data analysis used the IBM SPSS Statistics 26.0 program. Results: Factors affecting career decision self-efficacy were significant in college life satisfaction, club activities, employment stress, and self-respect, and the explanatory power was 44.4%. Conclusions: Through classes using a variety of teaching methods, career exploration and employment mentoring programs are needed to make students more interested in major classes, encourage them to participate in major club activities, and reduce students' stress about finding jobs in the future.

대학생이 지각한 부모의 긍정적·부정적 양육태도가 학업적 자기효능감에 미치는 영향

Objectives This study aims to explore the role of grit and career decision self-efficacy as parallel multiple mediating effects in the relationship between college students' perceptions of their parents' positive and negative parenting attitudes and the students' own academic self-efficacy. Methods Data wear collected through online questionnaires administered to 409 college students at four-year universities across the nation, from October 15 to October 20, 2021. The data gathered were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation analyses, and parallel multiple mediating effect models via the PROCESS macro, utilizing Bootstrap. Results The study subjects' academic self-efficacy was positively correlated with their parents' parenting attitudes (r=.256, p<.001), grit (r=.537, p<.001), and career decision self-efficacy (r=.567, p<.001). Upon examining the parallel multiple mediating effects of the sub-factors of parenting attitudes, the study confirmed that grit and career decision self-efficacy have a full mediating effect on the relationship between positive parenting attitudes and academic self-efficacy, and a partial mediating effect on the relationship between negative parenting attitudes and academic self-efficacy. Conclusions To boost the academic self-efficacy of college students and elevate their parents' parenting attitudes, grit, and career decision self-efficacy, schools need to develop a diverse range of curricular and extracurricular programs. Additionally, ongoing coordinated management between families and schools is essential.

Exploring the career development challenges and expectations of international students during the COVID-19 pandemic

In this study, the interrelations between locus of control, perceived social support, career decision self-efficacy, and career outcome expectations among international students in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic was investigated through the lens of Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT). Based on structural equation modeling, data from 194 international students at a large Midwestern research institution in the United States. revealed that career decision self-efficacy plays a significant mediating role in the relationships between age, locus of control, and career outcome expectations. These results provide valuable insights into the career development process of international students during a global pandemic. The implications of these findings and directions for future research are thoroughly discussed.

Public perceptions of artificial intelligence in healthcare: ethical concerns and opportunities for patient-centered care

BackgroundIn an effort to improve the quality of medical care, the philosophy of patient-centered care has become integrated into almost every aspect of the medical community. Despite its widespread acceptance, among patients and practitioners, there are concerns that rapid advancements in artificial intelligence may threaten elements of patient-centered care, such as personal relationships with care providers and patient-driven choices. This study explores the extent to which patients are confident in and comfortable with the use of these technologies when it comes to their own individual care and identifies areas that may align with or threaten elements of patient-centered care.MethodsAn exploratory, mixed-method approach was used to analyze survey data from 600 US-based adults in the State of Florida. The survey was administered through a leading market research provider (August 10–21, 2023), and responses were collected to be representative of the state’s population based on age, gender, race/ethnicity, and political affiliation.ResultsRespondents were more comfortable with the use of AI in health-related tasks that were not associated with doctor-patient relationships, such as scheduling patient appointments or follow-ups (84.2%). Fear of losing the ‘human touch’ associated with doctors was a common theme within qualitative coding, suggesting a potential conflict between the implementation of AI and patient-centered care. In addition, decision self-efficacy was associated with higher levels of comfort with AI, but there were also concerns about losing decision-making control, workforce changes, and cost concerns. A small majority of participants mentioned that AI could be useful for doctors and lead to more equitable care but only when used within limits.ConclusionThe application of AI in medical care is rapidly advancing, but oversight, regulation, and guidance addressing critical aspects of patient-centered care are lacking. While there is no evidence that AI will undermine patient-physician relationships at this time, there is concern on the part of patients regarding the application of AI within medical care and specifically as it relates to their interaction with physicians. Medical guidance on incorporating AI while adhering to the principles of patient-centered care is needed to clarify how AI will augment medical care.