1998;6:181-193. doi: 10.1177/106907279800600205.

Assessing career search self-efficacy: Construct evidence and developmental antecedents.

Journal of Career Assessment

V Scott Solberg

UIID-EM: 79 Bookshelf ID: 1998-02202-005 DOI: 10.1177/106907279800600205

Abstract

Evidence in support of career search self-efficacy as a construct is provided through a review of relevant empirical literature. Career search self-efficacy involves one's beliefs about one's own ability to successfully perform career exploration activities. Empirical research supports career search self-efficacy as a construct related to, but separate from, agentic personality traits and as related to a number of career outcomes such as career exploration and vocational identity. Empirical research also supports the importance of agency, family processes, identity, and the environment as determinants of career search self-efficacy. A model linking the source of career search self-efficacy with the effects of career search self-efficacy provides a number of avenues for future research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

Keywords: construct validity & developmental antecedents of career search self efficacy; Human Development

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