Self-Efficacy as a Mediator of the Relationships between Personality Factors and Career Interests

Abstract

Relationships among the Big Five personality factors (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism), career interests, and career self-efficacy (using Holland’s realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional types for both of the latter) were examined. Among a sample of 147 college students, self-efficacy mediated four out of five personality-interest relationships that have been found to be robust across a number of other samples. The findings generally support social cognitive career theory’s model of interest development and have implications for career counselors who are working to help clients understand their interest assessment results.

The Sustainable Personality in Entrepreneurship: The Relationship between Big Six Personality, Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy, and Entrepreneurial Intention in the Chinese Context

“…In the first phase of the mediation effect analysis, Conscientiousness and Extraversion were associated with higher entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and these findings are consistent with previous studies [50,56] and these prior findings [51,53], respectively, as well as the cognitive-affective system theory of personality [37], which suggests the interaction between cognition and personality. Interestingly, Interpersonal Relationship was also positively related to entrepreneurial self-efficacy.…”

“…For example, Emotional Stability [11,54,56], Conscientiousness [11,50,56], Agreeableness [11,51,53], Extraversion [11,51,53], and Openness [11,52,56] were positively associated with self-efficacy respectively. These findings were based on a genetic perspective that personality traits are mostly inborn [11].…”

“…Previous studies have illustrated that personality may influence individual's entrepreneurial self-efficacy [25,[50][51][52][53][54][55][56]. These findings might need further analysis, whereas personality traits were mostly considered as an inborn result, then entrepreneurial self-efficacy could contribute to people's performance [57].…”

The role of personality in the selection of a major: With and without vocational self-efficacy and interests

“…The other related studies have shown minimal linkages between stress reaction or neuroticism and any of Holland's(1997) hexagonal interests (Barrick et al, 2003;Staggs et al, 2007) or self-efficacy themes (Larson & Borgen, 2006;Nauta, 2004). As expected, alienation was not shown to vary across major families based on prior studies (Larson & Borgen, 2006;Staggs et al, 2007).…”

Self-regulation processes of participants in a job application accompaniment

“…Ainsi, sort-on de l'écueil personnologique consistant à réduire la compréhension des transactions individu/ environnement à des caractéristiques générales et stables de personnalité: pour Betz et Hackett (2006), les SEP ne sont pas des «concepts-traits». Ceci ne signifie pas une absence d'effet des traits de personnalité, mais une prise en compte de la médiation de cet effet par des dimensions plus sensibles au contexte (Brown et al, 2006;Lent & Brown, 2006b;Nauta, 2004). Cette spécificité oblige à adapter les variables ou à en créer de nouvelles, dès lors que l'on s'intéresse à un domaine non encore étudié (Betz & Hackett, 2006).…”