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Social Cognitive Career Theory

Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) provides a framework for understanding how people develop interests, make career choices, and achieve at varying levels in educational and occupational pursuits. SCCT emphasizes the role of self-referent thinking and predicts interests, choices, and performance. It offers a potentially unifying framework that incorporates aspects of other career theories. SCCT assumes that person-environment interactions are dynamic and situation specific, and that people both influence and are influenced by their environments.

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Social Cognitive Career Theory

Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) provides a framework for understanding how people develop interests, make career choices, and achieve at varying levels in educational and occupational pursuits. SCCT emphasizes the role of self-referent thinking and predicts interests, choices, and performance. It offers a potentially unifying framework that incorporates aspects of other career theories. SCCT assumes that person-environment interactions are dynamic and situation specific, and that people both influence and are influenced by their environments.

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Social Cognitive Career

Theory
(SCCT)

Robert W. Lent
Steven D. Brown
Gail Hackett
- SCCT -

Stresses self-referent thinking


in Motivation and in Behavior

Predicts:
Interests
Choices
Performance
Offers a potentially unifying
framework

 How Holland types develop

 How learning experiences influence interests in Krumboltz’s


theory

 What factors affect differential role salience in Super’s


theory

 How people acquire abilities in Dawis’ and Loftquist’s


Theory of Work Adjustment
SCCT – Central concepts and
assumptions

 Person-environment interaction is
dynamic and situation specific
 People are products AND producers of
their environments
 Key Theoretical Constructs
 Self-efficacy
 Outcome expectations
 Goals (symbolic representations of desired
future outcomes)
Development of Basic Career Interests over Time
(Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994)

Perceived
Abilities

Self-Efficacy

Sources of Intentions/ Activity Performance


Self-Efficacy Goals for Selection Attainments (e.g.,
Interest
and Outcome Activity and goal fulfillment,
Expectations Involvement Practice skill development

Outcome
Expectations
Values
Person, Contextual, and Experiential Factors Affecting Career-Related Choice Behavior
(Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1993)

Person Inputs
-Predispositions
-Gender Contextual Influences
-Ethnicity Proximal to Choice Behavior
-Disability/Health

Status

moderate
Self-Efficacy 12

moderate
11
1
7 10

Learning Choice Choice Performance


Experiences Interest Domains and
3 Goals 4 Actions 5
Attainments
8 9
2

Outcome
Expectations
Background
Contextual
Affordances 6
SCCT – Intervention Implications

 Expand interests and facilitate choice


 Revisit Foreclosed options
 Overcome barriers to choice and
success
 Highlight Supports
 Develop and modify self-efficacy and
outcome expectations

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