The relationship between self-esteem, job-search intensity and career decision-making among final year students: An application of structural equation modeling.
This study aimed to ezamined the relationship among self-esteem, job-search intensity and career decision-making of final year students. The probabilities are used to terst whether there are any influences exist in there aspects namely, self-esteem over career decision-making self-efficacy, job-sear...
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International Association of Technology, Education and development (IATED)
2011
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/6514/1/4.inted_2011.pdf http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/6514/2/4.inted_2011.pdf http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/6514/ http://www.iated.org |
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| Summary: | This study aimed to ezamined the relationship among self-esteem, job-search intensity and career decision-making of final year students. The probabilities are used to terst whether there are any influences exist in there aspects namely, self-esteem over career decision-making self-efficacy, job-search intensity over career decision-making self-efficacy, and self-esteem over job-search intensity. The instruments used were a demographic information sheet, the rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, Job-Search Intensity Scale, and Career Decision-making self-Efficacy Scale-Short Form. Participants were recruited using a cluster sampling procedure. Data were collected from a self-reported questionnaire administered to 678 final year students of a public university in Malaysia.The statistical tests used to analyze the data were Structural Equation modeling using AMOS 16. Findings showed that tere were significant relationships between self-esteem and career decision-making self-efficacy, and a significant relationship between job-search intensity and career decision-making self-efficacy. The implications for students' developments and career development centre are also discussed. |
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