Career Decision-making Self Efficacy Of College Students And Its Contributors

497 senior college students were tested with a set of questionnaires, which includes a 60-item version of BIG-5 personality scale developed by Robert R. McCrae & Paul T. Costa Jr., a Social Support Scale developed by Xiao, a Chinese version of General Self Efficacy Scale modified by Fan et al., a Chinese Social Adjustment Scale modified by Meng et al., and two newly developed questionnaires measuring attribution and career decision-making self efficacy. The data were analyzed with SPSS16.0 and LISREL8.7, and some conclusions were drawn as followed:(1)There was no difference on career decision-making self efficacy between students from towns and those from rural areas. However, a significant gender difference was found:the self efficacy of career decision-making process of females was higher than that of male students.(2)Self efficacy of career decision-making process was negatively correlated with Neuroticism, and positively correlated with Extraversion, Openness, Conscientiousness and Agreeableness. Moreover, it is also positively correlated with attribution of positives, social adjustment, social support and general self-efficacy. Self efficacy of career decision-making task was negatively correlated with Neuroticism, and positively correlated with Extraversion, Openness, Conscientiousness, attribution of positives, and social adjustment. A regression analysis showed that there were four factor directly contributing to self efficacy of career decision-making process:general self-efficacy, Conscientiousness, perceived social supports, and attribution of positives. General self-efficacy, Extraversion, and perceived social supports would directly contribute to self efficacy of career decision-making task.(3)There might be some other contributors which were not reviewed in this particular study. Future researches are in need to find these possible facors.