Date of Award
5-2014
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
College/School
College of Education and Human Services
Department/Program
Counseling and Educational Leadership
Thesis Sponsor/Dissertation Chair/Project Chair
Larry D. Burlew
Committee Member
Les Kooyman
Committee Member
Dana Levitt
Committee Member
Catherine Roland
Abstract
This study was an investigation of the predictive value of perceived career barriers and career decision self-efficacy on the certainty of initial career choice among Educational Opportunity Fund Program (EOF) pre-freshman college students, an under-studied college population with respect to career development (Winograd & Shick Tryon, 2009). The moderating effects of certain cultural characteristics (race, gender and college generational status) on the certainty of initial career choice were also examined. A nonexperimental correlational research design was utilized, along with a multiple linear regression analysis, to investigate the predictability of perceived career barriers and career decision self-efficacy, directly and as moderated by the cultural characteristics of gender, race and college generational status on the certainty of initial career choice among pre-freshmen EOF students.
Recommended Citation
Pulliam, Nicole Pacheco, "The Relationship Between Perceived Career Barriers and Career Decision Self-Efficacy on the Certainty of Initial Career Choice Among Educational Opportunity Fund Program Students" (2014). Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects. 64.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/etd/64