TY - JOUR
T1 - Social cognitive influences on Mexican Americans' career choices across Holland's themes
AU - Flores, Lisa Y.
AU - Robitschek, Chris
AU - Celebi, Elif
AU - Andersen, Christie
AU - Hoang, Uyen
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2010/4
Y1 - 2010/4
N2 - This study examined several propositions of social cognitive career theory (Lent et al., 1994, 2000) with a sample of 393 Mexican American college students. It was hypothesized that person input (i.e., age) and background contextual variables (i.e., Anglo orientation, Mexican orientation, familism, instrumentality, and expressivity) would predict career self-efficacy across Holland's (1997) six RIASEC types. In addition, we examined the proposed relations between career self-efficacy, career interests, and career choice goal across the six RIASEC areas. Our results indicated that (a) Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional career models were similar across gender and university affiliation groups, (b) gender differences were found in the Realistic career model, (c) institutional affiliation differences were found in the Investigative career model, and (d) the models were a good fit to the data. Implications for future vocational research and career interventions are discussed.
AB - This study examined several propositions of social cognitive career theory (Lent et al., 1994, 2000) with a sample of 393 Mexican American college students. It was hypothesized that person input (i.e., age) and background contextual variables (i.e., Anglo orientation, Mexican orientation, familism, instrumentality, and expressivity) would predict career self-efficacy across Holland's (1997) six RIASEC types. In addition, we examined the proposed relations between career self-efficacy, career interests, and career choice goal across the six RIASEC areas. Our results indicated that (a) Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional career models were similar across gender and university affiliation groups, (b) gender differences were found in the Realistic career model, (c) institutional affiliation differences were found in the Investigative career model, and (d) the models were a good fit to the data. Implications for future vocational research and career interventions are discussed.
KW - Acculturation
KW - Career choices
KW - Career development
KW - Career interests
KW - Holland theory
KW - Latino/a
KW - Self-efficacy
KW - Social cognitive career theory
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jvb.2009.11.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jvb.2009.11.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77649274013
VL - 76
SP - 198
EP - 210
JO - Journal of Vocational Behavior
JF - Journal of Vocational Behavior
SN - 0001-8791
IS - 2
ER -