Date of Graduation
Spring 2023
Degree
Master of Science in Psychology
Department
Psychology
Committee Chair
Thomas Kane
Abstract
This current study advanced understanding of the career goal-setting and relevant goal-related attitudes to the career planning process. Specifically, this study evaluated how career goal commitment, career goal self-efficacy and grit affect career goal structures and effort. A multidimensional career goal commitment scale was developed to differentiate intrinsic (affective) from rational types of commitments. Findings supported affective career goal commitment as consequential to the completeness of career goal structures and in career-relevant effort. Also, career goal self-efficacy was found to predict career planners’ self-efficacy for shorter term performance.
Keywords
career goals, affective commitment, goal commitment, self-efficacy, grit, career planning, self-regulation, goal hierarchies
Subject Categories
Academic Advising | Developmental Psychology | Industrial and Organizational Psychology | Organization Development | Personality and Social Contexts
Copyright
© Mary Clare Newsham
Recommended Citation
Newsham, Mary Clare, "Grit, Efficacy, Commitment and Career Planning" (2023). MSU Graduate Theses. 3843.
https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/3843
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