Career Choice and Development

In the following sections, we present an overview of the basic theory, its empirical base, its range of generalizability, and th ...

certain variables through which persons may exercise agency (for example, Goodman, 1994; Krumboltz & Nichols, 1990). A secon ...

(2) outcome expectations, and (3) personal goals. These three vari- ables are seen as basic “building blocks” of career developm ...

Ajzen, 1988), accord outcome expectations play a key role in moti- vating behavior. Outcome expectations are acquired through le ...

an important, if generally implicit, role in virtually all theories of career choice and decision making (Lent et al., 1994). SC ...

assumed to be important determinants of career choice (Betsworth & Fouad, 1997; Hansen, 1984). SCCT’s interest model emphasi ...

Sources ofself-efficacyand outcomeexpectations Interests Intentions orgoals for activityinvolvement Activityselectionand practic ...

form an important feedback loop, helping to solidify or reshape self- efficacy and outcome expectations and, in turn, interests. ...

interest or other vocational outcomes. SCCT is concerned with a number of other important person and contextual variables (gende ...

Person Inputs• Predispositions• Gender• Race-ethnicity• Disability or health statusBackground contextualaffordances Interests 7 ...

indifference) they receive for performing certain activities, and the outcomes they come to anticipate. The process of gender-ro ...

shape self-efficacy and outcome expectations. At the same time, as is also depicted in Figure 7.2, gender and cultural factors a ...

Summary. According to SCCT’s interest model, interests are a joint function of self-efficacy beliefs and outcome expectations; p ...

The expression of a primary choice (or goal) Actions, such as enrolling in a particular training program that is designed to im ...

Although sharing this general assumption, SCCT is distinct from, yet complements, Holland’s theory in a number of respects. For ...

imize the substantial impact of objective features of the environ- ment, but it does highlight the person’s active role in appra ...

choice formation and implementation (for instance, discrimination in hiring, “glass ceiling” obstacles, or cultural practices wh ...

implement their interests, they will choose less interesting occupa- tional paths that are available to them, that provide adequ ...

and subsequent behavior. Success experiences promote develop- ment of abilities and, in turn, self-efficacy and outcome expecta- ...

Finally, we should comment on the nature of goals within SCCT’s performance model. Whereas our interest and choice mod- els invo ...