Sources of self-efficacy in career contexts: a longitudinal perspective
摘要
As Bandura stated that self-efficacy did not arise in a vacuum, but rather resulted from the acquisition of particular learning experiences, our study aimed to examine the longitudinal effects of these learning experiences in career contexts on individual career decision self-efficacy with a three-wave longitudinal study among 1512 Chinese college students. All participants completed the Chinese version of Career Exploration and Decision Learning Experiences Scale and the Career Exploration and Decision Self-Efficacy-Brief Decision Scale. The result indicated that there were longitudinally configural, weak, strong, and strict measurement invariances for career learning experiences. In addition, all personal mastery experience, verbal persuasion, and positive emotion sustained and remained influences on career decision self-efficacy across time, but the influence of personal mastery experience was the greatest. The findings above further revealed the longitudinal effects of career learning experiences on individual career development and the implications of these findings for further research and practices were discussed.