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Peer reviewedBetz, Nancy E.; Hackett, Gail – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1987
Undergraduate students (N=109) completed measures of competence and level and strength of perceived self-efficacy in response to 18 situations with potential to elicit agentic behaviors. Results indicated that subjects gave only minimally competent responses to situations, with competence varying across situations. Levels of perceived efficacy…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Students, Competence, Higher Education
Download full textHackett, Gail; Betz, Nancy E. – 1984
This investigation, part of an on-going research program examining social learning theory applications to career development, tested several hypotheses derived from A. Bandura's self-efficacy theory in the career-related domain of mathematics. Specifically, the effects of failure on a mathematics task and on a task irrelevant to mathematics were…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Career Development, Failure, Higher Education
