... the impact of external influences, self-efficacy, perceived social status, career opportunities and students’ interest in career choices. Design/methodology/approach This study employed a cross-sectional quantitative research design to examine the proposed hypotheses. A sample of 263 students from...

...Hui Zhan; Kin Meng Cheng; Lianna Wijaya; Songcun Zhang Purpose Utilizing the Social Cognitive Theory framework, this research aims to illuminate how self-efficacy acts as a mediating factor, enhancing employability among working university students by fostering essential capabilities in digital...

...Chi-Jung Huang; Ling-ling Kueh; Hsiang-Wen Wang; Hsuan Hung; Hui-Hsin Wang Purpose This study explores the extent of undergraduate students' engagement in interdisciplinary learning experiences across their academic journey and its potential correlation with elevated levels of self-efficacy...

... of affiliation with their workplace environment. The additional purpose encompassed the identification of factors that both facilitated and hindered their engagement and self-efficacy. Design/methodology/approach The data for this study were collected via a cross-sectional survey of 243 students who were...

... Sense of belonging Self-efficacy Sense of self Work-integrated learning Women International study Students who participate in work-integrated learning (WIL) programs – such as cooperative education or internships – in higher education (HE) – are often better...

... of the institution without an internal planned behavior (i.e. self-efficacy). Given that voluntarily dropping out of college involves an active choice and a range of cognitive and behavioral adjustments related to the individual's situation, and student's planned behavior–student's intention (i.e. self-efficacy...

... is multidimensional, but disagreement exists around the content of the most relevant dimensions. This disagreement is likely because of Bandura's seminal work on self-efficacy, which outlined how meaningful measures of sense of competence are required to be domain specific because of their divergence across domains...

... and learning self-efficacy. Design/methodology/approach The authors used a three-wave repeated cross-sectional data collected from 509 final-year undergraduate students of 11 Nigerian public universities, who had completed the compulsory work placement to analyze the influence of PSS on learner’s career...

...Gbolahan Gbadamosi; Carl Evans; Mark Richardson; Yos Chanthana Purpose Building on the self-efficacy theory and self-theories, the purpose of this paper is to investigate students working part-time whilst pursuing full-time higher education in Cambodia. It explores individuals’ part-time working...

...Helen M.G. Watt; John Ehrich; Sandra E. Stewart; Tristan Snell; Micaela Bucich; Nicky Jacobs; Brett Furlonger; Derek English Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a professional self-efficacy scale for counsellors and psychologists encompassing identified competencies within professional...

...Dr Ruth Brooks; Judie Kay; Matt Edwards Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between work placements and employability, through an analysis of the impact of a work placement on students’ self-efficacy. Design/methodology/approach – The basis of this paper...