Mediatory Role of Career Decision Making Self Efficacy and Vocational Outcome Expectations on the Relationship between Personalityand Career Goals among Senior Secondary School Students
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.48047/CU/54/01/63-84Keywords:
Career Goals, Vocational Outcome Expectations, Senior Secondary School Students, Mediation Analysis, Personality Traits, Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy, Social Cognitive Career TheoryAbstract
Current research investigates that personality traits as well as career goals among secondary school students are mediated by vocational outcome expectations (VOE) and career decision-making self-efficacy (CDMSE). Employing the Big Five personality traits framework, the study analyzes how these traits influence students’ career choices and the mechanisms through which self-efficacy and outcome expectations mediate this relationship. Data were collected from 568 secondary school students in the 11th and 12th grades, representing eight schools across eight districts in Tripura, India. Deploying a quantitative approach, standardized questionnaires were administered to assess personality factors, outcome expectations, career goals, and CDMSE. Results demonstrate personality factors or traits, especially openness, have a crucial role in the student’s choice goals, with CDMSE mediating as a significant factor and VOE enhancing this relationship, stressing the relevance of CDMSE in pursuit of career goals. The findings suggest that promoting CDMSE may assist students in utilizing their personality factors more efficiently in the formulation and achievement of career objectives, which are of high degree. However, as the research is based on self-assessment questionnaires, it has certain limitations with respect to generalizing findings, and additional factors that affect Choice Goals should also be analyzed further. These limitations provide potential areas for future research, which should focus on the impact of specific educational programs targeted to enhance CDMSE on student outcomes in different contexts.
Downloads
References
Madow, W. G., & Anderson, T. W. (1959). Introduction to Multivariate Statistical Analysis. The American Mathematical Monthly, 66(5), 432. doi:10.2307/2308777
Bandura, A., & National Institute of Mental Health. (1986). Social foundations of thought and action: A social cognitive theory. Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Bandura A. (1989). Human agency in social cognitive theory. American Psychologist. 44(9):1175-84. doi: 10.1037/0003-066x.44.9.1175. PMID: 2782727.
Betz, N. E. & Hackett, G. (2006). Career Self-Efficacy Theory: Back to the Future. Journal of Career Assessment, 14(1), 3–11. doi:10.1177/1069072705281347
Brown, S. D. & Lent, R. W. (2012). Career development and counseling: putting theory and research to work. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Conkel Ziebell, J. L. (2010). Promoting viable career choice goals through career decision-making self-efficacy and career maturity in inner-city high school students: A test of social cognitive career theory. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/96093.
Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (1985). Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior. doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-2271-7
Elliot, A. J., & Thrash, T. M. (2002). Approach-avoidance motivation in personality: Approach and avoidance temperaments and goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82(5), 804.
Gravetter, F., and Wallnau, L. (2014). Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences. 8th Edition, Wadsworth, Belmont, CA.
Hayes, A.F. (2017). Introduction to Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis: A Regression-Based Approach. Guilford Press, New York.
Judge, T. A., & Ilies, R. (2002). Relationship of personality to performance motivation: A meta-analytic review. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87(4), 797–807. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.87.4.797
Janse, R.J., Hoekstra, T., Jager, K.J., Zoccali, C., Tripepi, G., Dekker, F.W., & van Diepen, M. (2021). Conducting correlation analysis: important limitations and pitfalls, Clinical Kidney Journal, 14(11). 2332–2337, https://doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfab085
Lent, R. W. & Brown, S. D. (2017). Social Cognitive Career Theory in a Diverse World: Guest Editors’ Introduction. Journal of Career Assessment, 25(1), 3–5. https://doi.org/10.1177/1069072716657811
Lent, R. W., Brown, S. D., & Hackett, G. (1994). Toward a unifying social cognitive theory of career and academic interest, choice, and performance. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 45(1), 79–122. https://doi.org/10.1006/jvbe.1994.1027
Lounsbury, J. W., Hutchens, T., & Loveland, J. M. (2005). An Investigation of Big Five Personality Traits and Career Decidedness Among Early and Middle Adolescents. Journal of Career Assessment, 13(1), 25–39. https://doi.org/10.1177/1069072704270272
McCrae, R. R., & Costa, P. T., Jr. (1997). Personality trait structure as a human universal. American Psychologist, 52(5), 509–516. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.52.5.509
Nauta, M. M. (2010). The development, evolution, and status of Holland’s theory of vocational personalities: reflections and future directions for counseling psychology. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 57(1), 11.
Roberts, B. W., Walton, K. E., & Viechtbauer, W. (2006). Patterns of mean-level change in personality traits across the life course: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Psychological Bulletin, 132(1), 1.
Taylor, K. M., & Betz, N. E. (1983). Applications of self-efficacy theory to the understanding and treatment of career indecision. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 22(1), 63–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/0001-8791(83)90006-4
Turda, E. S. (2024). The Relationship Between Personality Factors, Vocational Identity, and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy. International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 11(1), 55–75. https://doi.org/10.13152/IJRVET.11.1.3
Yu, X., Luo, N., Liu, X., Li, H., Li, L., & Mei, Y. (2021). Effect of Proactive Personality on Career Decidedness: The Mediating Role of Career Exploration and the Moderating Role of Anticipated Regret. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.763224
Zhang, L., Wang, X., Fan, W., & Li, Y. (2024). Contributions of proactive personality to career decision self-efficacy: mediating effect of positive affect and moderating roles of social class and gender. Current Psychology, 43(10), 9164–9175. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-05014-0
Zhao, F., Li, P., Chen, S., Hao, Y., & Qin, J. (2022). Career exploration and career decision self-efficacy in northwest Chinese pre-service kindergarten teachers: The mediating role of work volition and career adaptability. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 729504.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
You are free to:
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially.
- Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
- The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
Under the following terms:
- Attribution — You must give appropriate credit , provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made . You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
