Explaining Career Decision‐Making Self‐Efficacy: Personality, Cognitions, and Cultural Mistrust

Abstract

The authors explore the hypothesis that career decision‐making self‐efficacy could be affected by negative career thoughts, Big Five personality factors, and cultural mistrust in a sample of African American and Caucasian college students. Findings demonstrated that negative career thinking, openness, and conscientiousness explained a significant amount of variance in career decision‐making self‐efficacy in a general sample of college students, but no unique variance was explained by cultural mistrust in a sample of African American college students.

Core self-evaluation and career decision self-efficacy: A mediation model of value orientations

“…This theoretical argument is supported by empirical evidence showing that all four componential traits of CSE are significantly and positively related to self-efficacy in vocational development processes (Bullock-Yowell, Andrews, & Buzzetta, 2011;Schyns & von Collani, 2002). However, it appears that almost no empirical research has examined the relationship between overall CSE, as an integral construct, and CDSE.…”

“…In addition, the examination of the CSE-CDSE relationship in the current study has extended this theoretical perspective to a Chinese context. The latest findings of recent and present research conducted in multiple cultures (Bullock-Yowell et al, 2011) suggest that it is potentially applicable to generalize the role of CSE in career decision-making processes to different cultural groups. Future research is expected to provide cross-cultural validation.…”

Youth employment in start-up ventures in Jordan: an exploratory study

“…As previously said, career decision-making processes are not only affected by one's educational background but also by role models (Flouri & Buchanan, 2002;Van Auken et al, 2006), self efficacy (Bandura, 1977;Bullock-Yowell, Andrews, & Buzzetta, 2011;Luzzo, 1993), and individual characteristics (Kidd, 1984;Law, 1981). 13 We already claimed that there is a lack of research on career decisions to join a startup or a recently born small business when looking at employment opportunities.…”

“…Indeed, the education system in Jordan does not provide a well-rounded exploration of opportunities, and has a lack of a critical, innovative, risk taking approach to teaching (Dakkak, 2011) that takes into consideration the personal traits of a person such as self efficacy (Bullock-Yowell et al, 2011) and the family a youth comes from (Hou, Wu, & Liu, 2013).…”

Unemployed Adults’ Career Thoughts, Career Self‐Efficacy, and Interest: Any Similarity to College Students?

“…Career decision‐making self‐efficacy—an individual's beliefs about his or her capability to perform tasks related to the career decision‐making process (Taylor & Betz, 1983)—has been shown to be related to several career‐related constructs, including certainty (Betz, Klein, & Taylor, 1996) and fear of commitment (Betz & Sterling, 1993), in addition to the personality traits of conscientiousness and extraversion (Bullock‐Yowell, Andrews, & Buzzetta, 2011; Hartman & Betz, 2007). Self‐efficacy has been seen as an important factor to address with unemployed individuals (Steinweg, 1990) and acknowledged in research on the unemployed (e.g., Aviram, 2006; Wiener et al, 1999).…”