I am looking for valid and reliable survey instruments that look at career and educational aspirations in the ideal sense versus realistic career aspirations based on social barriers. I am interested in the gap between ideal aspirations of students in a perfect world/fantasy, versus what students realistically think that they will actually achieve based on their situation, social circumstances, social barriers, family background, societal constraints.
Hi, Robert:
Very interesting topic. Perhaps the 'gap' you mentioned could be narrowed---if the the personality is proactive and things would be better regardless of the student's background and social circumstances! A recent research study (lin, lu and chen, 2014) argued that organizations has consistently revealed that proactive personality is a relatively stable disposition and a significant antecedent of self-efficacy, which generates employees' proactive behavior and thus benefits individuals and firms.
Consequently, the authors examined whether the relationship between proactive personality, a general temperamental tendency, and specific self-efficacy that is focused on certain activities or tasks might emerge across contexts in an education setting with a directional effect.
From a sample of 123 students, the author employed a longitudinal approach using two waves of surveys to examine the directional relations between students' proactive personalities and their academic self-efficacy in education. The results showed that students' proactive personalities at Time 1 predicted change in their academic self-efficacy at Time 2, suggesting a top-down relationship. On the contrary students' academic self-efficacy at Time 1 could not predict their proactive personalities at Time 2. In short, the directional effect of proactive personality on self-efficacy across contexts was captured in this study!
- Lin, S., Lu, W., Chen, M., & Chen, L. (2014). Association Between Proactive Personality and Academic Self-Efficacy. Current Psychology, 33(4), 600-609.
Hope this helps!
Nadeem
Try and goggle questionnaire on self-efficacy. That should work for you.
Robert Lent, Gail Hackett, and their colleagues are the go to people when it comes to career self-efficacy. If I were you, I would get my hands on everything they have written in this regard. You could take it from there and find others who are doing similar work. But definitely start with Lent and Hackett. They are the "biggies"!
Thanks for the information. James, I am unclear as to how this Realtalk app helps me with developing or finding a scale for evaluating this construct. Any further explanation would be appreciated
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