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Journal of Career Development, Vol. 33, No. 1, 47-65 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0894845306289535
© 2006 The Curators of the University of Missouri

Causal Relationship Between Career Indecision and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy

A Longitudinal Cross-Lagged Analysis

Peter Creed

Griffith University, p.creed{at}griffith.edu.au

Wendy Patton

Queensland University of Technology

Lee-Ann Prideaux

Griffith University

This study surved 166 students when they were in Grade 8 of high school and then again when they were in Grade 10, using measures of career indecision and career decision-making self-efficacy. Consistent with social-cognitive theories, the authors hypothesized that changes in self-efficacy over time would be causally associated with changes in career indecision over time. Using latent variable analyses, the authors estimated a two-wave, longitudinal, cross-lagged panel design and find that contrary to expectations, changes in career decision-making self-efficacy did not result in changes in career indecision, despite significant contemporaneous associations at both times. Theoretical and applied implications are highlighted.

Key Words: career decision-making self-efficacy • career indecision • longitudinal • cross-lagged


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