Barrier and Metamorphose─Life Exploration of Career Self-Efficacy and Career Barriers of the Math/Science Gifted Male

• Main Authors: Yun Lin, 林芸
• Other Authors: Hsiao-Lan Chau
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/wqrh8m

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 特殊教育學系碩士班 === 106 === This paper conducted a case study research and used a qualitative approach on three senior high school graduates, who carried their study in the mathematics and science gifted program, with a purpose to investigate their exploration in the career barrier and the career self-efficacy. The findings are as follows: 1. Career barrier of math/science gifted male The personal mentalities of the gifted students face the pressure of social roles and economic expectations, and their gifted characteristics are also influenced by their diverse talents and interests; as in the external environment, also affected by the significant others, family environment and social and cultural values. Therefore, these factors make the problems more complex. At career counseling and mentoring level,also lacked of vocational trainings and work experiences. the researchers found that interviews can help the gifted students to understand and reflect on their own problems, and to plan and organize their career directions with purpose to enhance their self-efficacy. 2. Career self-efficacy of math/science gifted male Career self-efficacy is strongly influenced by emotion and performance. Strong negative emotions are influenced by gifted characteristics and external environment, which leads to anxiety, frustration and self-criticism. With respects to performance, the comparison between peers, the dispositional attribution when dealing with failure, and the frustration in academic and schoolwork will lead to the vicious cycle of career self-efficacy and career obstruction, whereas the career self-efficacy will be improved when the performances are excellent. 3. Career barrier and career self-efficacy of math/science gifted male Looking at the four effective factors of career self-efficacy, in “accomplishment”, passion and enthusiasm can lead the gifted students to cross the career barrier, whereas poor performance might lower self-efficacy and influence self-confidence and interest. In " vicarious experience", the three students agreed on the value of others’ failure, which is worth learning from, and can enhance self-efficacy. With regard to " emotional arousal," gifted characteristics can create strong feelings to reinforce the negative emotions, which might result in emotion constraints and an escape from reality, forming career barrier. In " verbal persuasion ", craving for assurance from others might lead to a decrease of self-identity. 4. Transformations of 3 Gifted Students in this Study The interviews discovered that guiding gifted students to reflect on career obstacle events and understand career self-efficacy couldcan help these 3 gifted students perceive and reflect on the relationship between the existing social environment and their own ability and status, as well as purposively planed for and organized career directions, to improve their sense of self-efficacy. As a result, they couldan more confidently develop strategies and directions when facing career obstacles in their future career exploration. Because male are unwilling to express the difficulties they encountered and their vulnerability due to gender roles, their points of view about the career obstacles they face are more worthy of further investigation in future studies. Moreover, there is still a lack of studies investigating career obstacles faced by gifted male students in adulthood. Hopefully, relevant studies can be conducted in the future to understand the difficulties encountered by gifted male students during career exploration and find out the strategies or resources that can help them improve career self-efficacy to assist in these silent men. Only when the hidden factors of career obstacles and the status of low career self-efficacy are stated and understood can the ecology and support environment that pay attention to male privacy and meet their actual needs be further built. Key words:male, the math/science gifted student, career barrier, career self-efficacy