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JOURNAL OF CAREER ASSESSMENT
Volume 28, Issue 4, Pages 608-635Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1069072720910089
Keywords
career indecision; indecisiveness; self-efficacy; self-esteem; meta-analysis
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [51NF40-160590]
- Samuel and Esther Melton Chair
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This meta-analysis examined the association between two types of difficulties in career decision making-indecision and indecisiveness-and four types of self-evaluations: generalized self-efficacy, process-related self-efficacy, content-related self-efficacy, and self-esteem. Analyses were conducted on data from 86 studies (N = 54,160): Process-related self-efficacy showed stronger negative associations with career indecision than did generalized self-efficacy, content-related self-efficacy, or self-esteem. In contrast, self-esteem showed stronger negative associations with indecisiveness than with career indecision. The second part of this meta-analysis focused on differential associations between two types of self-evaluations (process-related self-efficacy and self-esteem) and the three major clusters of difficulties in career decision making (lack of readiness, lack of information, and inconsistent information). Based on 19 studies (N = 7,953), the findings showed that process-related self-efficacy was strongly and negatively associated with lack of information and inconsistent information. In contrast, self-esteem was only weakly related to the three major clusters of difficulties in career decision making. In showing that each type of self-evaluation was more strongly associated with certain types and causes of difficulties in career decision making, the present article highlighted the importance of self-evaluations in the career decision-making process.
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