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Are Success Learning Experiences and Self-Efficacy Beliefs Associated With Occupational Interests and Aspirations of At-Risk Urban Youth?

Margo A. Jackson

Fordham University, mjackson{at}fordham.edu

Jodi C. Potere

Fordham University

Karen A. Brobst

Fordham University

To help increase access to educational and occupational options for a growing yet underrepresented population of low-income, culturally diverse, urban middle school students, we need to increase our understanding of important factors in their career development. The results of this study supported some applications of Krumboltz’s social learning theory to at-risk urban youth and found (a) a significant and positive association between participants’ success learning experiences and their expressed occupational interests, and (b) a positive association between their career self-efficacy beliefs and inventoried occupational interests. However, no association was found between participants’ success learning experiences and their highest or most ideal occupational aspirations. Further research with methods and measures that are reliable and validated with this population is needed to replicate the results of this study. In turn, career counselors might use this understanding to better design effective interventions for at-risk diverse urban youth.

Key Words: success learning experiences • interests • occupational aspirations • career self-efficacy • social learning theory • at-risk urban youth • middle school students

Journal of Career Assessment, Vol. 14, No. 3, 333-353 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1069072706286489
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