The career development of Mexican American adolescent women: A test of social cognitive career theory.

Abstract

This study tested R. W. Lent, S. D. Brown, and G. Hackett's (1994) model of career choice with 364 Mexican American adolescent women. Path analyses were run to determine the influence of contextual and social cognitive variables on career aspiration, career choice prestige, and traditionality. Partial support for the model was evidenced as nontraditional career self-efficacy, parental support, barriers, acculturation, and feminist attitudes predicted career choice prestige. Acculturation, feminist attitudes, and nontraditional career self-efficacy predicted career choice traditionality. Feminist attitudes and parental support predicted career aspiration. The paths between nontraditional career interests and the 3 outcome variables were not supported. Finally, none of the background contextual variables in this study predicted nontraditional career self-efficacy. Implications of the results and suggestions for future research are discussed.

An investigation of African-American women's prestige domain interests and choice goals using Social Cognitive Career Theory

“…That is, although a few studies of SCCT have included occupational prestige (e.g., Flores & O'Brien, 2002;Tang, Fouad, & Smith, Prestige Interests and Choice Goals 19 1999), no prior studies have used prestige-specific measures of self-efficacy, outcome expectations, interests, and choice goals to assess SCCT-implied relationships among the set of prestige variables. Understanding African American women's career development along the prestige dimension may be particularly important due to trends of employment in lower-prestige occupations for this population.…”

“…In turn, self-efficacy and outcome expectations influence the individual's vocational interests and other career outcomes such as career choice, both directly and through a sequential pathway. Given SCCT's attention to contextual as well as internal person variables, this theory has been applied to ethnic minorities and women in both conceptual literature (e.g., Byars & Hackett, 1998) and empirical studies (e.g., Flores & O'Brien, 2002;Flores, Robitschek, Celebi, Andersen, & Hoang, 2010;Lent, Sheu, Gloster, & Wilkins, 2010;Nauta & Epperson, 2003;Navarro, Flores, & Worthington, 2007;Rivera, Chen, Flores, Blumberg, & Ponterotto, 2007). However, much of the traditional SCCT research focusing exclusively on African Americans has been conducted in math and science-related domains (Lent et al, 2005 because African Americans are underrepresented in STEM occupations (National Science Foundation, 2013).…”

Evaluación del modelo cognitivo social de desarrollo de la carrera para la predicción de las metas en las materias tecnológicas de estudiantes de bachillerato

“…Así, por ejemplo, Flores y O'Brien (2002) verifi can que las creencias de autoefi cacia infl uyen en el interés. Del mismo modo, Nauta y Epperson (2003), con una muestra de alumnas de secundaria con interés por la ciencia y la tecnología, corroboraron que sus creencias de autoefi cacia infl uían en su interés por la ciencia y que este interés predecía sus metas para persistir en los estudios científi cos-tecnológicos.…”

Research on Career Choices and Decision-Making Process Among Chinese Overseas Students

“…Careers in science or technology domains are highly valued and prestigious indicators of social standing in Asian culture, and therefore Asian female students in the US are likely to be encouraged to pursue such a career. However, Leung [9] warned that Asian youth's career choices may be limited if those choices are influenced solely by reputation as this may lead to career decision-making incompatible with their interests and competences.…”

“…Besides influencing their personal development, background factors such as family of origin, socioeconomic status and level of education, have an impact on individuals' career preferences and decision-making as well [9]. Studies that have addressed this issue with regard to Asian youth have reported that the individuals' career ambitions and choices were heavily shaped by their parents [10].…”