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Longitudinal relations of self-efficacy to outcome expectations, interests, and major choice goals in engineering students |
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| Authors: | Robert W Lent Hung-Bin Sheu Janet A Schmidt Clay S Gloster |
| Institution: | a Department of Counseling and Personnel Services, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA b Division of Psychology in Education, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA c Counseling Center, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA d Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA e Department of Electrical Engineering, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA |
| 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. |
| Keywords: | Social cognitive career theory Self-efficacy Outcome expectations Interests Choice goals Engineering |
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