Decision‐Making Styles, Career Decision Self‐Efficacy, and Career Adaptability Among High School Students

Abstract

We investigated the relationships between decision‐making styles, career decision self‐efficacy, and career adaptability among high school students. We also sought to determine whether gender moderates the relationships among these three constructs. A total of 216 Serbian final‐year high school students responded to career adaptability and decision‐making measures. Results of structural equation modeling showed that career decision self‐efficacy mediates a positive relationship between the rational and intuitive styles and a negative relationship between the dependent style and career adaptability. The rational style only had a direct effect on career adaptability. Gender moderated one path—a regression weight of self‐efficacy on career adaptability. For male students, self‐efficacy was not a significant predictor of career adaptability. The results suggest that career counselors might approach students differently depending on students' gender and that the role of gender in career decision‐making and adaptability processes should be investigated further.

Líši Sa Spôsob Rozhodovania Na Základe Výberu Študijného Odboru?

“…Tá priamo pozitívne súvisí s racionálnym štýlom. Súvisí taktiež pozitívne s intuitívnym štýlom a negatívne s vyhýbavým štýlom, avšak v tomto prípade je tento vzťah mediovaný sebaúčinnosťou, teda vierou vo vlastné schopnosti a kompetencie (Dostanić et al, 2021). Racionálny a vyhýbavý štýl súvisia aj s vyhorením, pričom vzťahy sú podobné ako v predchádzajúcich prípadoch.…”

“…Racionálne rozhodovanie pozitívne súvisí s rozhodovacími kompetenciami (Delaney et al 2005;Bavoľár, 2018), čiže by sa v porovnaní zdravotníckych vied a vzdelávania mohlo očakávať aj potenciálne vyššia miera schopnosti robiť "dobré" rozhodnutia v prospech zdravotníckych vied. Podobné rozdiely by sme mohli predpokladať aj v kariérnej adaptabilite (Dostanić et al, 2021) a nižšej miere vyhorenia (Michailidis, Banks, 2016). Inými slovami na základe vzťahov racionálneho štýlu a psychologických zdrojov na zvládanie pracovných úloh, zmien a tráum, by sa dala predpokladať na základe zistených rozdielov vyššia úroveň pre zdravotnícke vedy.…”

Predicting effects of career adaptability and educational identity on the career decision-making of Chinese higher vocational students

“…The results showed that possible selves “connections to current views of self” and “congruency with overall identity” were predictive of leadership and researcher identity roles, respectively. Compared with identity, career adaptability as a psychological resource promoting career tasks more actively influences or predicts career decision-making (e.g., Dostanić et al, 2021 ). Levin and Lipshits-Braziler ( 2021 ) investigated the conceptual similarity and empirical overlap between the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS) and the Career Decision-Making Adaptability (CDA) indicator.…”

“…We investigated research on these topics and found that in career decision or choice, elements influencing adaptability and academic performance were highlighted. For example, Dostanić et al ( 2021 ) investigated associations between decision-making styles, career decision self-efficacy, and career adaptability among high school students. The authors’ findings showed that career decision self-efficacy mediated a positive relationship between rational and intuitive styles of decision-making as well as a negative relationship between the dependent style of decision-making and career adaptability.…”

The influence of motivation, self-efficacy, and fear of failure on the career adaptability of vocational school students: Moderated by meaning in life

“…Regarding CA, past studies have focused on general company employees ( AlKhemeiri et al, 2020 ; Omar and Tajudeen, 2020 ; Wang et al, 2021 ), student veterans or veterans ( Ghosh and Fouad, 2018 ; Ghosh et al, 2019 ; Becker et al, 2022 ), college students ( Gregor et al, 2021 ; Hu et al, 2021 ; Kim and Smith, 2021 ), high school students ( Dostanić et al, 2021 ), adolescent groups ( Liang et al, 2020 ; Bacanli and Sarsikoğlu, 2021 ), and working women ( Takawira, 2020 ), and have revealed that the target population is very diverse and represents the importance of research on CA.…”