Relationship Between a Feminist Approach to Career Counseling and Career Self‐Efficacy Beliefs

Abstract

To determine whether liberal feminist and conventional approaches to career counseling might differentially affect women's career self‐efficacy beliefs, 40 college women heard audiotapes of career counseling and provided ratings of their own career self‐efficacy. Analysis supported the suggestion that a feminist approach to career counseling can have a significantly more positive effect on career self‐efficacy than a conventional approach. This was true for ratings on the category of nontraditional careers as well as for overall career self‐efficacy ratings.

Twenty-Five Years of Self-Efficacy in Career Assessment and Practice

“…Students who par-ticipated in the delayed-treatment control group also reported greater CDMSE, but not as high as the first treatment control group. Similar to Juntunen (1996), Foltz and Luzzo concluded that the results of their study provided support for the necessity of counselors "to move beyond mere assessment of career interests and skills to thoroughly examine the process of career development relative to the client" (p. 42). Sullivan and Mahalik (2000) studied the effectiveness of a 6-week group counseling approach that incorporates the four sources of self-efficacy and attends to contextual factors (i.e., societal messages) with a sample of college women having moderate to high levels of career indecision.…”

Sociodemographics, Beliefs, and Attitudes as Determinants of College Students' Career Aspirations

“…However, we did find that having self‐efficacy beliefs, holding feminist attitudes, and identifying as female (i.e., Steps 1 and 2 of the moderation models) linearly predicted educational aspiration for our sample. In light of these findings, career counselors can promote college students' empowerment by encouraging them to take responsibility for their own educational goals (Juntunen, 1996). We invite career counselors to develop college fairs so that students can receive information about advanced degrees from representatives or professionals within their related fields.…”

A social psychological model of women’s gender‐typed occupational mobility

“…Previous studies have found that selfefficacy influenced one's educational and occupational aspirations (Bandura et al, 2001;Chang, 1990), career choice and management (Bandura et al, 2001;Dawes et al, 2000;Hackett and Betz, 1981;Juntunen, 1996), and educational and occupational attainment (Ancis and Phillips, 1996;Chang, 1990;Wang et al, 1999). Fiorentine (1988) found that female premedical students' lower confidence in performing the role of physician explained the high attrition rate of female students in premedical programs.…”