Applying the social cognitive model of career self-management to the entrepreneurial career decision: The role of exploratory and coping adaptive behaviours

By M. Pérez-López, María José González-López, Lázaro Rodríguez‐Ariza. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2019

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Abstract In this study, the social cognitive model of career self-management (Lent & Brown, 2013) was applied to study the degree of decidedness of university students for an entrepreneurial career, including adaptive behaviours of individuals in their career management. The participants were 376 final-year students of business-oriented degree courses at the University of Granada (Spain). Based on longitudinal survey data, the model was tested with structural equation models. Empirical analysis corroborated the hypothesised relationships between the core cognitive-person variables of social cognitive career theory (self-efficacy, outcome expectations and intention) and the mediating role of adaptive exploratory and coping behaviours in the relation between goals and the level of decidedness for an entrepreneurial career. These findings fill a perceived research gap by showing empirical evidence of the applicability of the career self-management model to the entrepreneurial field. Implications both for future research and for policies and practices of career counselling and entrepreneurship education are discussed.

Subfields: Education, Management of Technology and Innovation, Safety Research

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Contemporary career orientations and career self-management: A review and integration (2021, background): “Studies (e.g., Lent et al., 2019; Pérez-López et al., 2019) showed, for example, that career exploration and decision-making self-efficacy and outcome expectations predicted”
Perceived public support and entrepreneurship attitudes: A little reciprocity can go a long way! (2020, background): “…well established in a range of contexts (e.g. Bellò et al., 2018; Esfandiar, Sharifi - Tehrani, Pratt, & Altinay, 2019; Munir et al., 2019; Now iński et al., 201 9 ; Pérez - López, González - López, & Rodríguez - Ariza, 2019 ) and is now considered as an established link (Schmutzler et al., 2018).”