Longitudinal Relations of Self-Efficacy to Outcome Expectations, Interests, and Major Choice Goals in Engineering Students

Autor/inn/en	Lent, Robert W.; Sheu, Hung-Bin; Singley, Daniel; Schmidt, Janet A.; Schmidt, Linda C.; Gloster, Clay S.
Titel	Longitudinal Relations of Self-Efficacy to Outcome Expectations, Interests, and Major Choice Goals in Engineering Students
Quelle	In: Journal of Vocational Behavior, 73 (2008) 2, S.328-335 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0001-8791
DOI	10.1016/j.jvb.2008.07.005
Schlagwörter	Self Efficacy; Career Choice; Interests; Engineering Education; Epistemology; College Students; Longitudinal Studies; Models; Social Cognition; Social Theories; Racial Differences; African American Students; Black Colleges; Student Attitudes; Path Analysis; Objectives; Goal Orientation; White Students; Correlation; Measures (Individuals) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Bildungsinteresse; Ingenieurausbildung; Erkenntnistheorie; Collegestudent; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Analogiemodell; Soziale Kognition; Gesellschaftstheorie; Rassenunterschied; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Schülerverhalten; Pfadanalyse; Goal definition; Zielsetzung; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Korrelation; Messdaten
Abstract	We examined the nature of the temporal relations among the core person variables in the social cognitive model of academic and career choice [Lent, R. W., Brown, S. D., & Hackett, G. (1994). Toward a unifying social cognitive theory of career and academic interest, choice, and performance [Monograph]. "Journal of Vocational Behavior," 45, 79-122.]. Participants were 209 students taking beginning level engineering courses at either a predominantly White or a historically Black university. They completed measures of self-efficacy, outcome expectations, interests, and goals near the end of two consecutive semesters. Path analyses indicated support for a model in which self-efficacy served as a temporal precursor of outcome expectations, interests, and goals. There was less support for a model in which the latter variables produced reciprocal paths to self-efficacy. Implications for future longitudinal research on SCCT's (social cognitive career theory's) choice hypotheses are discussed. (Contains 2 figures and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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