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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"SCCT"”.
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Increasing adolescent interest in computing through the use of social cognitive career theory
… in the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), this dissertation shifts the research focus and finds serious shortcomings in defining the construct of computer technology learning experiences design. The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate whether, and to what extent, the …
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Social Cognitive Predictors for Undergraduate College Student's Choice Goals in Math and Science: Understanding the Role of Coping Efficacy
… the utility of Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994) in the prediction of undergraduate college student's math and science interests and choice goals. Coping efficacy and self-efficacy beliefs were assessed separately in order to better understand the relationships …
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Perceived Career Barriers: The Role of Ethnic Identity, Acculturation, and Self-Efficacy Mediators among Latina/o College Students
… groups. Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) explains how sociocultural and background contextual factors interact with self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and career goals to shape career behavior. The present study investigated the relation of ethnic identity and acculturation to …
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Madoff Madness: A Textual Analysis of the SEC's response to the Madoff Ponzi Scheme
… applied Situational Crisis Communication Theory (SCCT) in its crisis response, in order to examine SCCT's merit as a theory in government crisis communication research. This study also offers additional response strategies imposed by the SEC to suggest further expansion of SCCT in a government …
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Influence of Institutional Environment on Social Entrepreneurial Intention: a study in Maldives using Social Cognitive Career Theory
… thesis applies Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) to the Maldives' SIDS context to examine how institutional conditions affect social entrepreneurial intention. The study begins by situating local social enterprise models in worldwide SE literature. The literature review uses Gartner's …
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The Influence of Perceived Career Barriers on College Women's Career Planning
… Utilizing Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) and recent literature as a basis, this study conceptualized career goals using the two constructs career salience and career aspirations. Based on information garnered in this student's thesis and on studies examining pathways in the SCCT …
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How women's calling for science careers relates to psychological predictors of persistence in science
… science. Using Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) as a framework, the hypothesis that the relationship between perceiving a calling as a scientist and intentions to pursue science is mediated by science self-efficacy and science identity (respectively) was supported. Explanations and …
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Examining the role of the university environment, cultural congruity, social support, and self-efficacy on the academic persistence of black students attending predominantly white institutions and historically black colleges or universities
… 1975), and social cognitive career theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, and Hackett, 1994) to examine academic persistence intentions among Black undergraduate students at PWIs (n=103) and HBCUs (n=157). Structural Equation Modeling was used to test a model depicting relationships between contextual …
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"Informalisation of employment and career trajectories in the gig economy: evidence from ehailing drivers Cape Town"
… (SOI) and the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) frameworks to guide the research. The SCCT framework was customized to focus on ehailing-specific and related factors termed job specific determinants of career choices. Findings: The study findings depict the ehailing driver's job as a more …
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Fostering Computer Science Career Interest in Fifth-Grade Students
… grounded by Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), was implemented using a pre-survey-post-survey design. Qualitative data was collected using focus groups to explain quantitative findings further. The samples' post-survey (39.62) mean was greater than the pre-survey mean (37.17), but the …
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Toward Extended Situational Crisis Communication Theory: Include Visuals, Prior Performance, and Framing Devices
… and situational crisis communication theory (SCCT). This online experiment aims to see the effects of pictures and an organization's distinctiveness (i.e., an organization's prior good or bad performance) on people's crisis reactions in a real oil-spill crisis phenomenon and how both the …
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Predicting the STEM Outcomes of Academically Qualified Women: A Longitudinal Examination of Social Cognitive Career Theory
… indicate that among qualified women many of the SCCT personal and contextual variables are relevant to STEM career development. Moreover, findings from the present study support the hypothesis (Lent et al., 1994) that personal, environmental, and behavioral variables affect one another. An …
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Entrepreneurial career choice barriers, supports, and coping strategies: Graduates’ experiences
… It utilized Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) as a foundation theory in this exploration procedure. Study participants were university graduates who were in the stage of running their own established business. Targeting these individuals provided a rich and practical knowledge about the …
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Career decision learning experiences : development and validation of a scale
… Theory and on Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994). A 5-factor model was hypothesized based on the learning experiences proposed by Bandura and included in SCCT (social persuasion, vicarious learning, mastery experiences, negative emotional arousal, and positive …
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Doctoral students’ career decision-making process: comparing faculty and non-faculty careers from socio-cognitive and contextual perspectives
… (CIP) and Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) as theoretical frameworks, the study sought to 1) understand doctoral students’ career choice processes and 2) examine the career decision-making process differences based on their sought career paths (faculty versus non-faculty route). This …
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The Influence of In-School Time (IST) and Out-of-School Time (OST) Learning Experiences on Aviation Career Entry
… literature and social cognitive career theory (SCCT). In particular, the career focus and career confidence findings, related to the SCCT concept of self-efficacy, suggests that OST STEM education is more impactful upon aviation career self-efficacy than IST STEM education. Recommendations are …
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Influence of generational status and financial stress on academic and career self-efficacy
Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994) provided a theoretical framework for the present study. Students’ beliefs in their abilities to perform academic tasks (i.e., academic self-efficacy; Solberg, O’Brien, Villarreal, Kennell, & Davis, 1993) and to make career-related …
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Áfallastjórnun lögreglu; Rauðagerðismálið
… lögreglu greind út frá Coombs (2023) þar sem SCCT-líkanið (Situational Crisis Communication Theory) er notað til að meta hvort krísustjórnun lögreglu hafi verið verið góð.
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INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL COGNITIVE VARIABLES ON THE CAREER EXPLORATORY BEHAVIORS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN UNDERGRADUATE STEM-INTENSIVE AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES MAJORS AT HISTORICALLY BLACK LAND-GRANT INSTITUTIONS
… selected to measure various components of the SCCT framework, focusing primarily on person, cognitive and contextual variables. Data were collected from African American undergraduate students (N = 314) enrolled in STEM-intensive agricultural sciences majors at five Historically Black …
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A qualitative case study to understand high school graduates' experiences in a career and technical education center's hospitality and tourism program.
… Brown's (2008) Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) framework and graduates' decisions not to pursue a career in the hospitality and tourism industry. The findings in this study confirm that the elements that create SCCT theoretical framework are still relevant in the 21st century and directly …
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