Auto-eficacia na transição para o trabalho e comportamento de exploração de carreira em licenciados / Self-efficacy beliefs int the transition to the work and behaviours of carreer exploration, in bachelor studants

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

This study was developed based on the evidence of the career development from the perspective of social cognitive theory, approaching the specification of the sition moment to the job market by higher education students. To do so, it was adopted the concept of self-efficacy, related as the personal belief in the capacity to organize and to execute actions to look for a job and to adapt to the work place. The objectives were: to analyze self-efficacy beliefs in the transition to the work place of senior students according to sex, work status and course area; also, to characterize the relationship between selfefficacy in the areas under study domain to behaviors of career development. The study was conducted with 351 senior bachelor students from a university in the interior of São Paulo. Most of the respondents were female (60, 1%), average age 24, 5 years old, with 4,26 standard deviation . Two scales of self-report in likert format were applied, also the Self-Efficacy for Job Transition Scale (six points), and the Exploratory Behavior Scale (five points). The gathering of data was collectively made voluntarily with acceptance by the respondents. The average obtained in the self-efficacy scale was 4, 75, with 0,69 standard deviation. The results demonstrated higher values to the middle average in all dimensions, showing that the respondents had trust in the capacity of being successful in the transition to work. As to the gender of the respondents, significant differences were found only in the dimension of self-efficacy for emotional regulation (M=189,55; W=156; p=0,002), revealing that women had lower beliefs in this capacity. Students who were working had significantly higher scores in the three dimensions. Significant differences were identified in the dimension of self-efficacy in the transition to work (p=0,001) and self-efficacy in the adaptation to work (p=0, 01) among the participants of the following pair of knowledge area: Human Sciences-Arts and Natural Science. The magnitude of the relation between the variables self-efficacy and behaviors of career exploration was predominately weak. This might be associated to the multi determinative characteristic of the phenomena. Results indicate the relevance of actions made by the institutions in order to emphasize the career development of the students.

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carreiras - formação self-efficacy carreer educação (superior) concluintes estudantes universitarios higher education auto-eficacia university students senior students

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