High School Students' Career Decision-making Difficulties According to Locus of Control

Kırdök, Oğuzhan; Harman, Esranur

doi:10.13189/ujer.2018.060205

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“…It can be concluded that the social cognitive career theory improves the career decision-making abilities of VHS Boyolali students. Career decision making is a process which includes not only career choices but also a commitment to carry out the necessary actions to realize those choices (Kirdök & Harman, 2018). Individuals with low career decision-making skills tend to experience more negative experiences when making career decisions because of difficulties in solving problems that require complex information management.…”

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The effectiveness of social cognitive career theory on career decision making

Kusumawati

Wahyuningsih

2020

konseli

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Students with high academic anxiety can cause a decrease in motivation to learn. This kind of situation will harm the learning achievement achieved by students. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of social cognitive career theory on improving student career decision making. This study used a randomized experimental pretest-posttest control group design. A total of 16 students of VHS Boyolali were the subjects in this study. Selection of subjects using purposive sampling technique which is based on the criteria of low career decision-making ability, obtained from the score of career decision making scale. The data analysis technique used was the Wilcoxon test. The results of statistical tests show that there is an effect of social cognitive career theory on increasing student career decision making. The findings of this study prove that the social cognitive career theory is effective in improving student career decision making at VHS Boyolali.

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The effectiveness of social cognitive career theory on career decision making

Kusumawati

Wahyuningsih

2020

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“…Making a career choice, difficulties arise because of the lack of information about labour market situation, professional requirements, study programmes. The other researchers' conducted studies also fix the lack of information stating, that one of the biggest difficulties in the process of decision-making is the lack of useful information or uncertain information (Kırdök & Harman, 2018).…”

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Lithuanian gymnasium students’ career and professional self-determination

Lamanauskas¹,

Augienė²

2018

Psychol. Thought

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Career education is a very important part of general/comprehensive education. One of the main components of this process is proper students’ preparation for professional choice (professional self-determination). Thus, it is important to know objective and subjective factors determining young persons’ professional self-determination. Such awareness is important and necessary for the school, which accepts responsibility for the formation of students’ professional purposefulness and professional self-determination maturity. Lithuanian gymnasium students have to make an early decision concerning future professional activity. At the beginning of 2018, a complex research was carried out, comprising qualitative and quantitative approaches. Formulating research aim is to analyse Lithuanian gymnasium students’ professional self-determination context. A total of 643 Lithuanian gymnasium 11-12 grade students took part in the research. Apart from the main research instrument (questionnaire) in the research, the researchers presented four open-ended questions. Qualitative data were processed using a quantitative content analysis. Research results revealed that the majority of female and male students thought that to properly choose a career was important, because this was a self-realisation warranty. Regardless of this, choosing a future career, both male and female students most frequently experience personal difficulties. Choosing a future career, one needs information support, different person support and self-awareness help. It has been stated that choosing a career external factors have a greater influence on both female and male students than internal ones. Choosing a career, personality character features have a bigger influence on female students, and a desire to improve, to realise oneself has a greater impact on male students.

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“…The first until the fourth step in developing career decision instruments were identifying the purpose of measuring and b) domain restriction of measuring, c) operationalization of aspects, and d) item writing. The researcher collected all components and information related to career decisions based on the psychological theory and instrument developed by Kirdök & Harman (2018). After that, the researcher constructed the scale's items based on the aspects and indicators and wrote them.…”

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“…In contrast to the development of career decision-making instruments developed in Turkey, career decision-making instruments are given to high school students. It aims to help students outline their difficulties in making future career decisions (Kirdök & Harman, 2018).…”

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Developing and Validating Instrument of Career Decision of Islamic Senior High School Students in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Arini

Purwanta

Hidayat

2021

ijsl

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This study aimed to develop and validate an instrument of career decision of senior high level. Two hundred thirty-three learners from one of the Islamic senior high schools in Yogyakarta were involved in this study. The design of this study was research and development (R&D), which consisted of eight steps: a) identifying the purpose of measuring, b) domain restriction of measuring, c) operationalization of aspects, d) item writing, e) language trial, and field test, f) item selection, g) construct validation, and h) final validation. The researcher implicated students and expert judgments to validate the instrument. A small group and large group instrument try-out were done in this study. To analyze the data, the researcher combined the statistical calculation and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The result of this study showed that the career decision instrument undergoes some revision before it was fixed. The expert's judgments & result of the small group try-out showed that the instruments must be improved. The researcher revised some items in the instrument and did the large group try-out. The result of confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the career decision instrument was fixed. It was ready to use by the counseling teachers to help the senior high school students make career decisions for their future.

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High School Students' Career Decision-making Difficulties According to Locus of Control

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The effectiveness of social cognitive career theory on career decision making

The effectiveness of social cognitive career theory on career decision making

Lithuanian gymnasium students’ career and professional self-determination

Developing and Validating Instrument of Career Decision of Islamic Senior High School Students in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

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