The Contribution of Academic Behavioural
Confidence, Self Esteem and Social Anxiety to College
Student Career Decision Making Self Efficacy
Ruseno Arjanggi
1
, Hartono
2
, Made Dwi Adnjani
3
, Hidayatus Sholihah
4
{seno.ruseno@gmail.com
1
}
Universitas Islam Sultan Agung, Indonesia
1, 2, 3, 4
Abstract. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of self-esteem, academic
influence behavioural confidence and social anxiety on career decision making self-
efficacy. Nine hundred thirty-five students completed the self-esteem, academic
behavioural confidence, social anxiety and career decision making self-efficacy scales.
The results of this study indicate that the fittest model capable of predicting career
decision making self-efficacy is academic behavioural confidence. While the other two
predictors, namely self-esteem and social anxiety when excluded from the analysis,
further strengthen the influence of academic behavioural predictors on the formation of
career decision self-efficacy.
Keyword: Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy, Self-Esteem, Academic Behavioural
Confidence, Social Anxiety.
1 Introduction
Career decision making is an essential skill that can be used throughout the life span, and
career decision making is a skill that can be learned [1]. The stages in the career decision-
making process are passed by identifying and processing information skills that are the basis
for making decisions including career decision making [2][5]. Career decisions are a complex
process, as a result, career counsellors are faced with various difficulties experienced by
individuals when making career decisions [6].
Career decision self-efficacy is a career decision concept from the perspective of the social
cognitive career theory perspective [7]. Social cognitive theory has a role in explaining the
dynamics of various factors that influence career development both internally and externally
through career self-efficacy [8]. Social cognitive career theory discovers various individual
and distal contextual factors that contribute to one's learning experience that serves as a basis
for developing self-efficacy and outcome expectations [7]. Self-efficacy and expectations of
these results, in turn, lead to the interests, goals, and performance of individual career
development [7].
Socioeconomic status and family support are related to career decision self-efficacy and
outcome expectation [9]. The correlation between career obstacles and career decision self-
efficacy is mediated by hopelessness, while the relationship between locus of control and
career decision self-efficacy is fully mediated by hopelessness [10]. Individuals with feminine
or masculine gender roles have higher career decision self-efficacy levels than those who have
indeterminate gender roles, in addition, individuals with androgynous gender roles have career
IISS 2019, October 23-31, Malang, Indonesia
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DOI 10.4108/eai.23-10-2019.2293069