Explaining career decision-making self-efficacy: Personality, cognitions, and cultural mistrust

and article by by Emily Bullock-yowell, Lindsay Andrews and Mary E Buzzetta published in The Career Development Quarterly Volume 59 Issue 5 (2011)

Abstract

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.

Hazel’s comment:
Yet another article which tells me that if I think I’m rubbish then I will be. Not good.

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