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Difficulties in Career Decision Making and Self-Evaluations: A Meta-Analysis
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Difficulties in Career Decision Making and Self-Evaluations: A Meta-Analysis

  • Udayar, Shagini Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Levin, Nimrod The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
  • Lipshits-Braziler, Yuliya ORCID The Seymour Fox School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
  • Rochat, Shékina Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Di Fabio, Annamaria Department of Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Psychology (Psychology Section), University of Florence, Italy
  • Gati, Itamar Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
  • Sovet, Laurent Laboratory of Applied Psychology and Ergonomics, University of Paris, France
  • Rossier, Jérôme ORCID Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • 2020-3-19
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  • Journal of Career Assessment. - SAGE Publications. - 2020, vol. 28, no. 4, p. 608-635
Applied Psychology
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
General Psychology
English This meta-analysis examined the association between two types of difficulties in career decision making—indecision and indecisiveness—and four types of self-evaluations: generalized self-efficacy, process-related self-efficacy, content-related self-efficacy, and self-esteem. Analyses were conducted on data from 86 studies ( N = 54,160): Process-related self-efficacy showed stronger negative associations with career indecision than did generalized self-efficacy, content-related self-efficacy, or self-esteem. In contrast, self-esteem showed stronger negative associations with indecisiveness than with career indecision. The second part of this meta-analysis focused on differential associations between two types of self-evaluations (process-related self-efficacy and self-esteem) and the three major clusters of difficulties in career decision making (lack of readiness, lack of information, and inconsistent information). Based on 19 studies ( N = 7,953), the findings showed that process-related self-efficacy was strongly and negatively associated with lack of information and inconsistent information. In contrast, self-esteem was only weakly related to the three major clusters of difficulties in career decision making. In showing that each type of self-evaluation was more strongly associated with certain types and causes of difficulties in career decision making, the present article highlighted the importance of self-evaluations in the career decision-making process.
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