Making a Commitment to Your Future: Investigating the Effect of Career Exploration and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy on the Relationship between Career Concern and Career Commitment

Shi, Chen; Xue, Yan; Chen, Huaruo; Ling, Hairong; Wu, Jiajing; Gu, Xing

doi:10.3390/su132212816

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“…Career development theory divides personal career development into five stages: growth, exploration, establishment, maintenance, and decline ( Super and Jordaan, 1973 ; Jordaan, 1977 ). Vocational college students are between the ages of 15 and 24, and are in the exploratory stage of career development ( Chen et al, 2021 ). Career exploration is a mental or physical activity undertaken by an individual to achieve career goals that includes both information seeking and awareness of self and environment so that the individual has a clearer orientation to the establishment of future career development goals ( Super and Knasel, 1981 ; Pavlova and Silbereisen, 2014 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Influence of discrimination perception on career exploration of higher vocational students: Chain mediating effect test

Liu

Sun²,

Qin³

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Explore the influence mechanism of discrimination perception on higher vocational Students’ career exploration, it provides empirical evidence for promoting vocational college Students’ career exploration and career development. Using the questionnaire survey method, 893 higher vocational students from four higher vocational colleges in Jiangsu Province were investigated by using the Discrimination Perception Scale, the Core Self-Evaluation Scale (CSES), the Chinese version of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire, the Chinese version of the Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire (CFQ) and the Career Exploration Scale (CES). The data were analyzed using SPSS26.0 and Amos23.0, and the results showed that discrimination perception was significantly negatively correlated with core self-evaluation, psychological flexibility and career exploration (r = −0.487, −0.497, −0.326, p < 0.01), core self-evaluation was significantly positively correlated with psychological flexibility and career exploration (r = 0.518, 0.352, p < 0.01), and psychological flexibility was significantly positively correlated with career exploration (r = 0.386, p < 0.01); Core self-evaluation and psychological flexibility mediated the effect between discrimination perception and career exploration with effect sizes of −0.054 and −0.061, respectively; Core self-evaluation and psychological flexibility mediated the chain effect between discrimination perception and career exploration of higher vocational students with effect sizes of −0.030. Therefore, discrimination perception not only directly influences career exploration of higher vocational students, but also indirectly influences career exploration of higher vocational students through the separate mediating effects of core self-evaluation and psychological flexibility and the chain mediating effects of core self-evaluation and psychological flexibility. Accordingly, the following suggestions are put forward, which should pay attention to the cultivation of core self-evaluation and psychological flexibility of higher vocational students, strengthen the teaching quality and improve the image of vocational colleges.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Influence of discrimination perception on career exploration of higher vocational students: Chain mediating effect test

Liu

Sun²,

Qin³

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Drawing on social cognitive career theory (Lent et al, 1994(Lent et al, , 2002 and the career selfmanagement model (Lent and Brown, 2013;Lent et al, 2016), CDSE is a strong predictor of many career-related attitudes and behaviors. For instance, scholars found CDSE is positively related to career adaptability (Parola, 2023;Stead et al, 2022), career commitment (Chen et al, 2021), career satisfaction (Kim et al, 2016) and career decidedness (Lee et al, 2022;Li et al, 2019;Penn and Lent, 2018) and negatively related to career indecision (Choi et al, 2011).…”

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“…For instance, scholars found CDSE is positively related to career adaptability (Parola, 2023; Stead et al. , 2022), career commitment (Chen et al ., 2021), career satisfaction (Kim et al ., 2016) and career decidedness (Lee et al ., 2022; Li et al ., 2019; Penn and Lent, 2018) and negatively related to career indecision (Choi et al ., 2011).…”

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The antecedents of career decision self-efficacy: a meta-analysis on 20 years of research

Wang,

Luan,

Zhao

et al. 2023

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PurposeThis study aims to examine the antecedents of career decision self-efficacy (CDSE) and provide a comprehensive understanding of the factors that influence this critical construct in career development and decision-making.Design/methodology/approachThis study employed a meta-analysis of 43 independent studies, comprising 90 correlations and 17,143 participants. The Hunter-Schmidt method meta-analysis was used to analyze the data and identify the factors associated with CDSE. Random-effect meta-regression analysis was applied to detect the potential moderators.FindingsThe study found that CDSE is positively associated with social support (ρ = 0.41), age (ρ = 0.05), agreeableness (ρ = 0.23), conscientiousness (ρ = 0.48), emotional intelligence (ρ = 0.48), extraversion (ρ = 0.41), openness (ρ = 0.35) and proactive personality (ρ = 0.68), while negatively related to neuroticism (ρ = −0.33). Furthermore, the results indicate that sample gender (%female) and mean age partially moderate the relationship between CDSE and age, core-self evaluations and neuroticism.Originality/valueIn this study, the authors have contributed significantly to the existing research on CDSE antecedents by conducting a thorough analysis of the various factors associated with this critical construct. The findings offer an accurate understanding of the factors that influence CDSE, and this paper's moderation analysis sheds light on the boundary conditions in the CDSE literature. Moreover, this research has practical implications for practitioners such as teachers, parents and career counselors. By leveraging the insights gained from this study, practitioners can provide more effective career support and intervention to young people, which can help increase their CDSE and improve their overall career development and well-being.

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“…An individual with a strong sense of self-efficacy works harder to tackle challenges, while those with a low sense of self-efficacy may reduce their efforts or even drop out of their career objectives. The concept of career decision-making self-efficacy (Taylor and Betz, 1983 ), developed by prior research, was demonstrated as a critical factor for ensuring a sustainable career containing job satisfaction, intrinsic satisfaction (Peng and Mao, 2015 ), career choice commitment (Chen et al, 2021 ), and career exploration (Rogers et al, 2008 ). When female employees have a strong sense of self-efficacy toward a career, they maintain more interest and motivation in work and believe that they can effectively complete the job assignment and deal with difficulties in work through their own ability and knowledge; therefore, both job satisfaction and career commitment will be strengthened.…”

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confidence: 99%

Family-supportive supervisor behaviors and career sustainability of e-commerce female workers: A mixed-method approach

Luo

Li²,

Agbanyo³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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Women play an essential role in promoting societal and economic harmony development. However, compared with their male counterparts, female employees usually have to take on more family responsibilities while they endeavor to perform well at work. It is inevitable for them to face work–family conflicts; therefore, how to make female employees' careers more sustainable is a critical concern. Even though female career sustainability is well-explored in the literature, the combined effect of worker self-efficacy and family-supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSBs) on female career sustainability remains unexplored. To fill this gap, this study examines the influence of FSSB on female employee career sustainability, as well as the mediating role of self-efficacy. Moreover, a mixed-method approach was used to test the proposed relationships. The results indicate that FSSB has a positive impact on female career sustainability. Furthermore, the findings revealed that FSSB promotes female career sustainability through self-efficacy. This study establishes a theoretical framework for further research on the relationships between leader behavior and employee career sustainability. At the same time, it offers practical implications for supervisors in the management of subordinate career sustainability.

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Making a Commitment to Your Future: Investigating the Effect of Career Exploration and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy on the Relationship between Career Concern and Career Commitment

Cited by 21 publications

References 91 publications

Influence of discrimination perception on career exploration of higher vocational students: Chain mediating effect test

Influence of discrimination perception on career exploration of higher vocational students: Chain mediating effect test

The antecedents of career decision self-efficacy: a meta-analysis on 20 years of research

Family-supportive supervisor behaviors and career sustainability of e-commerce female workers: A mixed-method approach

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