Social–cognitive predictors of career exploration and decision-making: Longitudinal test of the career self-management model.
Abstract
We tested the social-cognitive model of career self-management (Lent & Brown, 2013) using a longitudinal design. Participants were 420 college students who completed measures of career exploration and decision-making self-efficacy, outcome expectations, social support, goals, and actions, along with trait conscientiousness, at 2 time points roughly 4 months apart, near the beginning and middle of an academic year. They also reported their level of career decidedness and decisional anxiety at both of these time points as well as near the end of the academic year (about 3 months after the 2nd assessment). The model provided good overall fit to the data and accounted for substantial portions of the variance in engagement in exploratory actions and in the 2 decisional outcomes (decidedness and decisional anxiety) over time. The findings also supported the hypothesized bidirectional paths of the decisional outcomes to self-efficacy and outcome expectations. We consider implications of the findings for the social-cognitive model as well as for future research and practice. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Authors
- Lent, R. W., Morris, T. R., Penn, L. T., & Ireland, G. W.
- Venue
- Journal of Counseling Psychology
- Published
- 2019-03
- Volume
- 66
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 184-194
- ISSN
- 0022-0167 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-2168
- OpenAlex
- W2886085997
- Cited by
- 114
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 18 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 6
- FWCI
- 13.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Counseling Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Career Development and Diversity
- Social Sciences › Education › Higher Education and Employability
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Disability Education and Employment
- Keywords
- career self-management, career exploration, career choice, career self-efficacy, outcome expectations, social support, career decidedness, conscientiousness, university students, social cognitive model, longitudinal development
- MeSH terms
- Self-Management, Adolescent, Career Choice, Cognition, Decision Making, Female, Forecasting, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Social Behavior, Social Support, Students, Self Efficacy, Young Adult
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