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Explaining Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy: Personality, Cognitions, and Cultural Mistrust
✍ Scribed by Emily Bullock-Yowell; Lindsay Andrews; Mary E. Buzzetta
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 91 KB
- Volume
- 59
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0889-4019
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✦ Synopsis
The authors explore the hypothesis that career decision‐making self‐efficacy could be affected by negative career thoughts, Big Five personality factors, and cultural mistrust in a sample of African American and Caucasian college students. Findings demonstrated that negative career thinking, openness, and conscientiousness explained a significant amount of variance in career decision‐making self‐efficacy in a general sample of college students, but no unique variance was explained by cultural mistrust in a sample of African American college students.
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