Causal Relationship Between Career Indecision and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy
Open Access
- 1 September 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Career Development
- Vol. 33 (1), 47-65
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0894845306289535
Abstract
This study surved 166 students when they were in Grade 8 of high school and then again when they were in Grade 10, using measures of career indecision and career decision-making self-efficacy. Consistent with social-cognitive theories, the authors hypothesized that changes in self-efficacy over time would be causally associated with changes in career indecision over time. Using latent variable analyses, the authors estimated a two-wave, longitudinal, cross-lagged panel design and find that contrary to expectations, changes in career decision-making self-efficacy did not result in changes in career indecision, despite significant contemporaneous associations at both times. Theoretical and applied implications are highlighted.Keywords
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