Acculturation moderating between international students’ career decision‐making difficulties and career decision self‐efficacy

Abstract

We conducted a moderation analysis with a sample of 96 international students in the United States to examine the relationship among three study variables. Results indicated that international students' acculturation modes (i.e., marginalization, separation, assimilation, and integration) significantly moderated the relationship between career decision-making difficulties and career decision self-efficacy. This finding not only corroborated the welldocumented inverse correlation between career decisionmaking difficulties and career decision self-efficacy, but further contextualized this relationship within the international students' population, wherein acculturation plays a crucial role in their cross-cultural living and learning experience. Implications for career development practitioners and future research directions were provided. K E Y W O R D S acculturation, career decision self-efficacy, career decision-making difficulties, international students, moderation analysisThe career development process is a central aspect of the international student experience (Balin et al., 2016). However, most of the research with international student populations has focused on acculturation concerns, social adjustment, language proficiency, and academic needs (e.g.,

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