Bandura's (1977Bandura's ( , 1986 self-efficacy theory was tested in relation to occupational consideration and academic performance with 35 High School Equivalency Program students from seasonal farmworker backgrounds. Within-individual and aggregate analyses indicated a moderate to strong relationship between extent of consideration of occupational activities and self-efficacy, interests, and incentives. Individual differences in the strength of the relationship between selfefficacy and extent of consideration were associated with individual differences in generality of self-efficacy. Self-efficacy expectations for academic areas were moderately related to accomplishment and ability, but not to effort, in those areas. The use of incentives as a moderator of the relationship between self-efficacy and occupational consideration illustrated a more complete test of Bandura's theory. Bandura's (1977Bandura's ( , 1986 self-efficacy theory has received increasing attention in the career literature (see Lent & Hackett, 1987, for a review). Bandura (1986) defined self-efficacy expectations as "people's judgments of their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performance" (p. 391). According to Bandura (1977Bandura ( , 1986, self-efficacy expectations affect choice and initiation of behavior, effort, persistence, and hence level of performance or accomplishment. Hackett and Betz (1981) first proposed the relevance of the self-efficacy construct for the career area and for explaining gender differences in occupational choice. Since then, the career self-efficacy model has been studied in relation to consideration of career or major (
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