Social Cognitive Career Model

• Lent 2013; Lent, Brown, & Hackett 1994
• Pro: Helps to explain vocational behaviors of racial and ethnic groups
• Greater emphasis on contextual factors
• Three intricately linked aspects of career development
• a. Development of interests
• b. Choice of educational and career options
• c. Performance and persistence in educational and vocational realms
• Expanded on Bandura's social cognitive theory and Hackett&Bent's career self-efficacy theory
• "Influence of individual and contextual factors on the socio-cognitive mechanisms of self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and goals and their influence on interests, actions, and performance"
• Self-efficacy beliefs and outcome expectations predict academic and career interests
• Focuses on learning process in realizing career goals
• People may experience more success in certain realms and therefore be more confident in their abilities in that realm, possibly influenced by demographics (sex, race, sexual orientation, etc)
• Counselor's goal is to examine client's past experiences and set realistic goals

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