Showing papers by "Steven D. Brown published in 2003"
TL;DR: In this article, Lent et al. found good support for a model portraying contextual supports and barriers as linked to choice goals and actions (i.e., persistence in engineering) indirectly, through self-efficacy, rather than directly, as posited by social cognitive career theory.
Abstract: Social cognitive career theory (SCCT; R. w. Lent, S. D. Brown, & G. Hackett, 1994) and general social cognitive theory (Bandura, 1999, 2000) posit somewhat different relations between contextual variables and choice actions. The authors tested the predictions of these 2 model variations. Participants (328 students in an introductory engineering course) completed measures of SCCT's person (self-efficacy, coping efficacy, outcome expectations, interests, academic goals) and contextual variables (environmental supports and barriers) related to the pursuit of engineering majors. Findings indicated good support for a model portraying contextual supports and barriers as linked to choice goals and actions (i.e., persistence in engineering) indirectly, through self-efficacy, rather than directly, as posited by SCCT. Implications for future research on SCCT's choice and environmental hypotheses are discussed.
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TL;DR: The authors identified five intervention ingredients that were individually associated with career choice outcome, and collectively were linearly related to increases in career choice effect sizes, and presented some hypotheses to define each of the critical ingredients and suggest how they might be implemented to maximize their effectiveness.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors tested several hypotheses emanating from social cognitive career theory (SCCT) and found general support for the hypotheses that self-efficacy and outcome expectations jointly predict interests, and that interests mediate the relations of selfefficacy, outcome expectations, interests, social supports and barriers, and choice consideration.
203 citations