Longitudinal test of the social cognitive model of choice in engineering students at historically Black universities |
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| Authors: | Robert W. Lent Hung-Bin Sheu Clay S. Gloster Gregory Wilkins |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Humanities, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy;2. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University, OH, United States;3. Department of Political Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy;1. School of Business Administration, South China University of Technology, China;2. Research School of Management, The Australian National University, Australia;1. Renmin University of China, Beijing, China;2. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK;3. Huaqiao University, Fujian Province, China |
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| Abstract: | We tested the social cognitive model of choice (Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994) using a longitudinal design. Participants were 116 students taking beginning engineering courses at two historically Black universities. They completed measures of self-efficacy, outcome expectations, interests, goals, and environmental supports and barriers near the end of two consecutive semesters. Path analyses indicated overall support for the choice model and, in particular, suggested that self-efficacy served as a temporal precursor of outcome expectations, interests, goals, and supports. Interests and self-efficacy were found to be reciprocally related but, contrary to expectations, supports and barriers did not account for unique variance in self-efficacy. Implications for future research on the choice model are discussed. |
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