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Presti, Alessandro Lo; Pace, Francesco; Mondo, Marina; Nota, Laura; Casarubia, Provvidenza; Ferrari, Lea; Betz, Nancy E. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2013
This study aims to evaluate the factor structure of Career Decision Self-Efficacy scale-short form in a sample of Italian high school adolescents. confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to test the degree to which a one-factor structure and a five-factor structure provided the best fit. In view of available research the five-factor structure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Self Efficacy, Career Choice
Turner, Brandon M.; Betz, Nancy E.; Edwards, Michael C.; Borgen, Fred H. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2010
The psychometric properties of measures of self-efficacy for the six themes of Holland's theory were examined using item response theory. Item and scale quality were compared across levels of the trait continuum; all the scales were highly reliable but differentiated better at some levels of the continuum than others. Applications for adaptive…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Adaptive Testing, Psychometrics, Item Response Theory
Betz, Nancy E.; Borgen, Fred H. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2009
The present study compared the effectiveness of two online career exploration systems in increasing the career decision self-efficacy and decidedness of 960 students enrolled in a program for undecided freshmen students at a large public university. Results indicated that both systems led to significant increases in career decision self-efficacy…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Career Choice, Online Systems, Self Efficacy
Lin, Shu-Ping; Betz, Nancy E. – Counseling Psychologist, 2009
This study indicates that the social self-efficacy of 203 Chinese and Taiwanese international students was significantly higher when they were asked to consider their interactions among fellow native language speakers than when they were asked to imagine themselves interacting in English-speaking settings. And in fact, the social self-efficacy of…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Students, Self Efficacy, Acculturation
Hartman, Robert O.; Betz, Nancy E. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2007
The present study investigates the hypothesis that the big five personality factors could exert two kinds of effects on career self-efficacy: (a) generalized or nonspecific effects and (b) domain-specific, content-correspondence effects. The hypothesis is examined using relationships of the NEO Five-Factor Inventory to 24 distinct domains of…
Descriptors: Personality, Self Efficacy, Factor Analysis, Career Choice
Betz, Nancy E.; Hackett, Gail – Journal of Career Assessment, 2006
This article begins by reviewing the scientific origins of research on career self-efficacy, highlighting its original development as a means of understanding the career development of women and discussing its development through the years into what is now, along with its extension as social cognitive career theory, a widely applicable major…
Descriptors: Researchers, Familiarity, Self Efficacy, Career Development
Chaney, Demetris; Hammond, Marie S.; Betz, Nancy E.; Multon, Karen D. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2007
The present study, based on a sample of 220 African American college students, sought to examine the utility of the Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale (CDSE) for African Americans. Values of coefficient alpha indicated reliability similar to that found in predominantly White samples. A four-factor structure best represented the data, with a large…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Factor Structure, College Students, African American Students
Borgen, Fred H.; Betz, Nancy E. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2008
This article extends recent work on the relationship between personality and career self-efficacy by examining relationships across two new inventories with scales for identifying human strengths. The Healthy Personality Inventory (HPI) has 17 content scales tapping an array of positive personality measures. The CAPA Confidence Inventory (CCI) has…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Personality, Personality Measures, Careers
Betz, Nancy E. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2007
This article discusses what the author views as exemplary work illustrating important directions in research on the applications of Bandura's self-efficacy theory to career theory, assessment, and counseling. The author begins with research on measuring career self-efficacy, following which research testing the postulated behavioral consequences…
Descriptors: Vocational Interests, Career Development, Self Efficacy, Career Counseling
Betz, Nancy E.; Rottinghaus, Patrick J. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2006
This article begins with a rationale for and review of parallel measures of self-efficacy (confidence) and interests for basic dimensions of vocational activity. Recent development of and research on the Expanded Skills Confidence Inventory, Campbell Interest and Skills Survey, Kuder Skills Assessment, and Inventory of Work-Relevant Abilities are…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Predictive Validity, Self Efficacy, Vocational Evaluation
Mullikin, Elizabeth A.; Bakken, Lori L.; Betz, Nancy E. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2007
Between 1980 and 1993, only 19% of medical school graduates chose faculty appointments with research responsibilities. Women and minorities represent only a small fraction of these, despite their growing numbers. The authors' goal is to study the effects of human agency, particularly self-efficacy, on the career development of physician…
Descriptors: Physicians, Females, Self Efficacy, Career Development

Betz, Nancy E.; Hackett, Gail – Journal of Career Assessment, 1997
Summarizes Bandura's self-efficacy theory. Reviews occupational, scientific-technical, and mathematics self-efficacy, Holland's hexagonal model, the Occupational Self-Efficacy Scale, and the relationship of self-efficacy to vocational interests. Considers the applicability of these concepts to women's career development and assessment. (SK)
Descriptors: Career Development, Females, Self Efficacy, Theories

Chartrand, Judy M.; Borgen, Fred H.; Betz, Nancy E.; Donnay, David – Journal of Career Assessment, 2002
Interests and self-efficacy are related constructs that contribute to a better understanding of career goals. The correlation between interests and self-efficacy as measured by the Skills Confidence Inventory and Strong Interest Inventory are very stable; concurrent administration yields a comparison of levels of interest and confidence from…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Interest Inventories, Self Efficacy, Vocational Interests

Betz, Nancy E. – Career Development Quarterly, 1992
Discusses the use of career self-efficacy theory in counseling individuals having low career-related self-efficacy. Begins by presenting diagram of Bandura's model of perceived self-efficacy and then goes on to discuss its implications for counseling. Focuses on how society may alter women's career choices and women's socialization in relation to…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Females, Models

Rottinghaus, Patrick J.; Betz, Nancy E.; Borgen, Fred H. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2003
The basic confidence scales of the Expanded Skills Confidence Inventory for 715 college students were correlated with confidence for Holland's six themes and basic interest scales of the Strong Interest Inventory. Discriminant analysis indicated that using both interest and confidence measures led to additional predictive power. (Contains 37…
Descriptors: Interest Inventories, Prediction, Self Efficacy, Self Esteem