Self-Efficacy and Career Choice and Development

Communicating Gender-Equality Progress, Reduces Social Identity Threats for Women Considering a Research Career

“…Instead, their interest was slightly lower than men's across conditions and was statistically mediated by women's slightly lower self-efficacy or confidence that they have what it takes to succeed in research, which was also unaffected by the experimental prime. This mediation result replicated much previous research, which has shown that gender differences in self-efficacy explain women's lower interest in careers that are dominated by men (e.g., Hackett 1995;Tellhed et al 2018). The result implies that to improve women's interest in a research career, women's research self-efficacy needs to be strengthened.…”

“…Further, previous research has found that women's lower interest in occupations that are horizontally dominated by men, which tends to be statistically mediated by women's lower self-efficacy, defined as doubts that one has the right competence to succeed in a domain (e.g., Bandura 1977;Betz and Hackett 1981;Hackett 1995;Lent et al 1994;Tellhed et al , 2018. We will replicate this research by testing if a gender difference in interest in the PhD program is statistically mediated by a gender difference in the belief that one has what it takes to succeed in research.…”

Development and initial validation of the Multicultural Counseling Self-Efficacy Scale--Racial Diversity Form.

“…From an agentic perspective, self-efficacy theory provides both counselors and clients with the framework to focus on enablement factors, "the personal resources to select and structure their environments in ways that set a successful course for their lives" (Bandura, 1997, p.177). For people with adjustment difficulties, such as career development issues, self-efficacy also plays a key role in facilitating career interests, choice, and performance (Hackett, 1995;Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 2002).…”

Personal and Institutional Factors: Relationship to Self-Efficacy of Persistence to the Senior Year in College among Self-Identified Black Undergraduate Students in a Hispanic Serving Institution

“…Similar to the retention literature (Bandura, 1993;Hackett, 1995), these findings indicate that students who are self-efficacious are motivated to master challenging academic tasks and to persist in college. Also, moderate correlations were seen between self-efficacy and academic and intellectual development items (r = .35, p < .001) and between selfefficacy and faculty concern for student development and teaching (r = .26, p < .01).…”