The Relationships among Social Support, Self-Efficacy, Outcome Expectations, Interest and Career Intention of the Early Childhood Care and Education Department Students

• Main Authors: Chun-Feng Chiang, 江春鳳
• Other Authors: Feng-Ming Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81564108805082134795

碩士 === 南華大學 === 應用社會學系教育社會學碩士班 === 102 === 　　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. Besides, the study examined the goodness of fit between the theoretical model proposed by the author and the observed data. The cluster sampling was used to collect the data consisted of 597 early childhood care and education department students from southern Taiwan. The instruments used in the study included the Social Support Scale, Self-efficacy Scale, Outcome Expectations Scale, Interest Scale, and Career Intention Scale. The collection data were analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results of this study were summarized as follows: (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 career intention. (5) Interest had direct effects on career intention. 　　Finally, detail results and suggestions for further research and implementation were discussed.