“Walking with Dreams”: The Categories of Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy and Its Influence on Learning Engagement of Senior High School Students
Xuejun Liu, Xiongjie Mei, Guojun Ji, Anna Parola · 2024
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Xuejun Liu and co-authors sort Chinese high school students by confidence in career decisions in this 2024 paper. That confidence, called career decision-making self-efficacy, shapes how well students choose a path. It also tracks with study engagement and grades. The team surveyed 510 students with standard scales for both traits. A latent profile model then grouped the students by their confidence pattern.
Four types emerged. The ranking by study engagement, from high to low, ran: high confidence, lack of external exploration, lack of internal exploration, and low confidence. Oddly, both the high and low confidence types engaged more than the two middle types. The authors urge schools to build career confidence to spur motivation. They also call for teaching tuned to each type, and for guidance that links school work, interests, and future jobs rather than exam drilling alone.
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| CREATOR | Xuejun Liu, Xiongjie Mei, Guojun Ji, Anna Parola |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |