Self Efficacy and Career Choice Consideration among Secondary School Students in Petaling District

Abstract

The relationship of self-efficacy and students? career choice consideration in secondary schools in Petaling district is explored through this study. This mixed mode of qualitative and quantitative research explored the perspective of self-efficacy towards a career decision making of 200 students from secondary schools in Petaling district through adapted questionnaires and interviews. Being the most critical decision for students, career choice determines the future role in the society and the interest in occupational consideration that can be mould by the environment; it can start at early age in schools. Through the aspects of prior performance, vicarious learning, and physiological and emotional reaction or attachment, this study affirms the positive connection between student?s self-efficacy and career choice.