| This study investigated what components of the sub-variables of confidence, motivation, and confidence in self-efficacy and the sub-variables of concern, curiosity, and confidence-occupational in career choices from impact of a Career Interest Intervention in at-risk adult college students. Specifically, this study sought to examine the effects of self-efficacy and career choices from the impact of a Career Interest Intervention amongst at-risk adult students. Further, it investigated the sub-variables of confidence, motivation, and I can perform in self-efficacy, and the sub-variables of concern, curiosity, and confidence-occupational in career choices. Participants were 43 enrolled students and ages 18 to 65 years old recruited from New York. Two self-instruments, New General Self-Efficacy Scale and Career Maturity Inventory Form-C Scale were utilized. Students were also asked to rate their self-efficacy level and career choices level. Research findings provided information regarding the sub-variables of self-efficacy and career choices through a pretest, Career Interest Intervention, and posttest. The study demonstrated that the role of self-efficacy and career choices had minimum to no effect to the Career Interest Intervention. The study analyzed a control group and an experimental group by comparing the pretest and posttest tests of each group. The objective was to analyze if the experimental group (Career Interest Intervention) enhanced the at-risk students confidence, motivation, I can perform, concern, curiosity, and confidence-occupational with those who were in the control group. The results demonstrated that the Career Interest Intervention did not seek much of a change in the at-risk adult students' scores from the experimental group and the control group. The descriptive statistics and ANOVAs were utilized to examine the study data. The results indicated that at-risk students proved to be their own most influential factors regarding the sub-variables of confidence, motivation, I can perform, concern, curiosity, and confidence-occupational, which was significant the six sub-variables research questions being reviewed in regard to self-efficacy and career choices aspirations. |
