45-5 The Relationships among Social Support, Self-Efficacy, Outcome Expectations, Interest, and Career Intention of Early Childhood Care and Education Department Students
The present study aimed to investigate the relationships among social support, self-efficacy, outcome expectations, interest, and career intention based on the social cognitive career theory. Cluster sampling was used to collect data consisting of 597 students in the departments of early childhood care and education from southern Taiwan. The following results were found: (1) The theoretical model proposed by the study had sound goodness of fit with the empirically observed data. (2) Social support had direct effects on self-efficacy and outcome expectations. (3) Self-efficacy had direct effects on outcome expectations and interest. (4) Outcome expectations had direct effects on interest. (5) Interest had direct effects on career intention. Finally, detailed results and suggestions for further research and implementation were discussed.
Keywords
career intention ； interest ； outcome expectations ； self-efficacy ； social support
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