Correspondence of interests and abilities with occupational choice.

Tracey, Terence J. G.; Hopkins, Nathaniel

doi:10.1037/0022-0167.48.2.178

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“…This is in line with more general research that has shown that individuals' perceptions of their capabilities (i.e., self-efficacy) are related to their preferences for performing specific tasks (Bandura, 1977;Betz & Hackett, 1981). People tend to avoid engaging in tasks for which their self-efficacy is low and generally pursue tasks for which their self-efficacy is high (e.g., Tracey, 1997;Tracey & Hopkins, 2001).…”

Section: Gender Differences In Individual Task Choicesupporting

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Individual Task Choice and the Division of Challenging Tasks Between Men and Women

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Vianen

Humphrey

et al. 2009

Group & Organization Management

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Challenging experiences are considered important for career development, and previous studies have suggested that women have fewer o f those experiences in their jobs than men have. However, the nature and possible determinants of this gender gap in job challenge have hardly been empirically studied. In the present study, the authors examine (a) gender differences in individuals' choice to perform challenging tasks and (b) gender differences in the allocation of challenging tasks in opposite-sex dyads. Results show that the men and women in the sample did not differ in their individual choice to perform challenging tasks, but after task allocation in opposite-sex dyads men ended up with more of the challenging tasks, whereas women ended up with more of the nonchallenging tasks. The authors discuss the possible consequences of these results for women's career development.

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Section: Gender Differences In Individual Task Choicesupporting

confidence: 87%

Individual Task Choice and the Division of Challenging Tasks Between Men and Women

Pater

Vianen

Humphrey

et al. 2009

Group & Organization Management

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“…The extent to which interests and self-efficacy in combination can provide incremental utility in the career counseling process is of considerable practical as well as theoretical importance. Major studies demonstrate the incremental predictive validity of these two sets of variables (Donnay & Borgen, 1999;Isaacs, Borgen, Donnay, & Hansen, 1997;, Rottinghaus, Lindley, Green, & Borgen, 2002Tracey & Hopkins, 2001), yet there have been few studies of counseling interventions based on use of the cross-classifications suggested herein. Furthermore, tests of the SCCT model require the availability of parallel measures of self-efficacy and interests (and, ideally, outcome expectations), so we hope that the availability of these many new sets of parallel measures will stimulate broader examination of SCCT and related models.…”

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Current Research on Parallel Measures of Interests and Confidence for Basic Dimensions of Vocational Activity

Betz

Rottinghaus

2006

Journal of Career Assessment

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This article begins with a rationale for and review of parallel measures of selfefficacy (confidence) and interests for basic dimensions of vocational activity. Recent development of and research on the Expanded Skills Confidence Inventory, Campbell Interest and Skills Survey, Kuder Skills Assessment, and Inventory of Work-Relevant Abilities are described and reviewed. Research on the incremental predictive validity of these measures for understanding and for counseling uses is discussed. Numerous suggestions for further research and for career assessment are provided.

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“…Although not all studies that followed Donnay and Borgen used the same approach to statistical analyses, the findings that interests and self-efficacy make incremental contributions to the prediction of major and occupational choice and group membership have been frequently replicated (e.g., see Betz, Borgen, & Harmon, 2006;Tracey & Hopkins, 2001), and the joint use of interest and confidence scores in career assessment and counseling has gained considerable acceptance (see the review by Betz & Rottinghaus, 2006).…”

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Career Self-Efficacy: Exemplary Recent Research and Emerging Directions

Betz

2007

Journal of Career Assessment

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This article discusses what the author views as exemplary work illustrating important directions in research on the applications of Bandura's self-efficacy theory to career theory, assessment, and counseling. The author begins with research on measuring career self-efficacy, following which research testing the postulated behavioral consequences of career self-efficacy expectations is discussed. Notable studies of the learning experiences postulated to lead to the development of strong expectations of efficacy are reviewed. Studies of the possible relationships of efficacy expectations to parallel measures of vocational interests are included. Finally, exemplary studies applying the theory to the career development of diverse groups, studies of interventions designed to increase career self-efficacy, and new research attempting to integrate self-efficacy theory with personality constructs are included. The article is not intended as a comprehensive review of this research but rather to provide highlights of some of the excellent work being done in this area.

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Correspondence of interests and abilities with occupational choice.

Cited by 92 publications

References 57 publications

Individual Task Choice and the Division of Challenging Tasks Between Men and Women

Individual Task Choice and the Division of Challenging Tasks Between Men and Women

Current Research on Parallel Measures of Interests and Confidence for Basic Dimensions of Vocational Activity

Career Self-Efficacy: Exemplary Recent Research and Emerging Directions

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