Career Decision Difficulties – The Efficiency of a Training Program notes

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INTRODUCTION 4
Chapter I
THEORETICAL FOUNDATION 6

1.1. School and professional guidance. 6
1.1.1 Conceptual delimitations 6
1.1.2 Introduction to the issue of the study. 8

1.2. Career decision 11
1.2.1 The importance of the career decision. 11
1.2.2 Stages of career decision 16
1.2.3 Decision-making styles 18
1.2.4 Theories related to decision-making. 18
1.2.4.1 The expectations model developed by Vroom 18
1.2.4.2 Tiedeman and O’Hara’s theory regarding career choice. 20
1.2.4.3 The conflict model made by Janis and Mann 22

1.3 Theories regarding career choice 24
1.3.1 Career choice in Anna Roe’s conception. 26
1.3.2 Periods and stages in vocational choice according to Ginsberg, Ginsburg, Axelrad and Helma. 28
1.3.3 Donald Super’s model of conceptual development about oneself in the development of vocational behavior 31
1.3.4 Vocational choice as an expression of personality in John Holland’s conception 37
1.3.5 Krumboltz’s theory of social learning 43

1.4 The motivation for choosing the profession. 47
1.4.1 The notion of motivation. 47
1.4.2 Self-efficacy. 49
1.4.2.1 Conceptual delimitations. 49
1.4.2.2 Sources of self-efficacy. 50
1.4.2.3 Mediating processes of self-efficacy 55

1.5 Self-efficacy and career decision-making. 59
1.5.1 Self-efficacy – an important factor in decision-making
regarding the career. 59
1.5.2 Research in the field. 60

CHAPTER II
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 63
2.1. The purpose and objectives of the research. 63
2.2. Participants 63
2.3. Tools used 64
2.3.1 The career decision difficulties questionnaire made by Itamar Gati and Samuel H. Osipow. 64
2.3.2 Self-efficacy scale in career decision making by Taylor and Betz. 64
2.4. Procedure. 65
2.5. Assumptions and design 69

CHAPTER III
RESEARCH RESULTS. 71
3.1. Quantitative analysis 71
3.2. Qualitative analysis 92

CHAPTER IV
CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS. 97

BIBLIOGRAPHY 101
APPENDICES 103

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