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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT)"”.
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Accounting career decision-making choices of rural high school learners in Amathole East, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Career decision-making continues to be a concern for high school learners. This is an even bigger concern for learners in rural based high schools due to lack of knowledge about various careers. This study sought to understand accounting career decisionmaking choices of rural high school learners …
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A scopic review of gender gaps in STEM studies in Bangladesh and Pakistan
… and Mathematics (STEM) education and careers in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and question why women continue to be underrepresented in these areas. It examines structural, cultural, and institutional constraints restricting the involvement of women such as the restrictive social norms, …
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Gendered racial microaggressions and identity in the career development of Black women college students
In this study, Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994; 2000) was the theoretical framework to understand Black Women college students' career development process that included cultural (person and contextual factors). Due to Black Women embodying two historically …
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Social Cognitive Predictors for Undergraduate College Student's Choice Goals in Math and Science: Understanding the Role of Coping Efficacy
<p>This study examined 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 …
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Applying social cognitive career theory to college science majors
… of research done to examine the applicability of social cognitive career theory (SCCT, Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994), almost none of this has focused on the prediction of science interests or goals. Additionally, this theory has not been applied to a group of individuals focused on studying …
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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
… study incorporated the person-environment fit theory (PE Fit; Lewin, 1938; Parsons, 1909), retention and attrition theories (Bean, 1980; Tinto, 1975), and social cognitive career theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, and Hackett, 1994) to examine academic persistence intentions among Black undergraduate …
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How women's calling for science careers relates to psychological predictors of persistence in science
… identified as a group that leaves the science-career pipeline at high rates (NSF, 2015), though researchers have highlighted science self-efficacy, identity, values, and intentions, as critical predictors of their persistence (Estrada et al., 2011). The current study proposes and investigates a …
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Perceived Career Barriers: The Role of Ethnic Identity, Acculturation, and Self-Efficacy Mediators among Latina/o College Students
… changing of structural barriers that hinder the career path of oppressed 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 …
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Fostering Computer Science Career Interest in Fifth-Grade Students
… 5th-grade students' interest in computer science careers. The treatment consisted of nine one-hour lessons in which the researcher introduced computer science content to students. At the end of the treatment, participants developed an application to study for a state-wide science assessment. To …
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Entrepreneurial career choice barriers, supports, and coping strategies: Graduates’ experiences
… experience of choosing entrepreneurial careers and explores what personal and contextual factors shaped such process. 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 …
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Influence of Institutional Environment on Social Entrepreneurial Intention: a study in Maldives using Social Cognitive Career Theory
Social entrepreneurship creates social mechanisms for sustainable, rights-based development by addressing chronic social issues that public and private initiatives do not solve. Despite extensive study on social initiatives, little is known about how institutional environments influence social …
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The Influence of Perceived Career Barriers on College Women's Career Planning
… and often fail to follow their original career goals. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of perceived career barriers and supports on young women's career planning. Utilizing Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) and recent literature as a basis, this study …
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Career decision learning experiences : development and validation of a scale
… is 19% (BLS, 2010a). Young adults struggle with career decisions, often halting the process or making inaccurate or ineffective decisions (Gati, Krausz, & Osipow, 1996). With a psychometrically sound instrument based on established theory, psychologists and vocational specialists can support …
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Doctoral students’ career decision-making process: comparing faculty and non-faculty careers from socio-cognitive and contextual perspectives
Minimal extant research on doctoral students’ career development prohibits the customization of career preparation that is necessary to prepare them with competencies for achieving their career goals. Such research is particularly urgent as current academic job markets shift career placement …
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The Influence of In-School Time (IST) and Out-of-School Time (OST) Learning Experiences on Aviation Career Entry
… their associated learning experiences influence career entry.</p> <p>Utilizing a mixed methodology approach, this research retrospectively explored the self-reported effect of out-of-school time (OST) and in-school time (IST) STEM experiences on aviation career development. Through interviews, a …
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Culture matters: factors affecting the persistence of European American and Asian women in two U.S. engineering doctoral programs
… by the 16 study participants, and shows that social contexts and psychological responses to these contexts interact to create challenges to persistence on an engineering educational career path. In the second chapter, factors that participants perceived as promoting their persistence on an …
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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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Increasing adolescent interest in computing through the use of social cognitive career theory
… evidence of the role of most constructs 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 …
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Physics Education: Understanding the Barriers for Young Women in Ontario
… by these young women. This research is guided by social cognitive career theory (SCCT) and uses the concept of physics identity as a lens through which the influence of contextual barriers can be understood. Nine participants, selected via snowball sampling from an Eastern Ontario university, …
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Promoting viable career choice goals through career decision-making self-efficacy and career maturity in inner-city high school students: a test of social cognitive career theory.
… the viability of inner-city adolescents' career choice goals, the purpose of this study was to predict relationships among person factors, environmental factors, career maturity, career decision-making self-efficacy, vocational outcome expectations, and viable career choice goals within …
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