Career Planning and Self-Efficacy as Predictors of Students' Career-Related Worry: Direct and Mediated Pathways
Journal of Career Development
; 50(1):185-199, 2023.
Article
in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-2266716
ABSTRACT
The current study seeks to shed light on social-cognitive resources that mitigate master students' experience of dysfunctional career-related worry before graduation. Based on the career self-management model (CSM;Lent & Brown, 2013), we investigate concurrent and time-lagged direct and mediated relationships between career planning, career-related self-efficacy, and career-related worry among a sample of 482 students shortly before graduation. Using data collected at three time points, a negative relationship was found between career planning (T1) and career-related worry (T3) via career-related self-efficacy (T2). Our findings shed light on the role of career planning and career-related self-efficacy as malleable social-cognitive resources that diminish dysfunctional thinking before graduation in sequential order. These findings imply that career planning and career-related self-efficacy are relevant predictors of affective states and can be incorporated into the CSM.
ERIC; Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE), Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, Stress Variables, Self Efficacy, Correlation, Pandemics, United States, Self Management, Age Differences, United Kingdom, Foreign Countries, Portugal, Employment Level, COVID-19, Gender Differences, College Students, Barriers, Career Planning, Predictor Variables, Italy
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ProQuest Central
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Language:
English
Journal:
Journal of Career Development
Year:
2023
Document Type:
Article
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