This study used social cognitive career theory (Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994), as a framework to investigate predictors of career choice actions, operationalised as career planning and career exploration. The model was tested cross-sectionally and longitudinally with 631 high school students enrolled in Grades 10-12. Students completed measures of self-efficacy, outcome expectations, goals, sup...

This paper is in memory of Esther Thelen, who passed away while President of the Society for Research in Child Development. A survey of Esther Thelen's career reveals a trajectory from early work on simple movements like stepping, to the study of goal-directed reaching, to work on the embodiment of cognition, and, ultimately, to a grand theory of development--dynamic systems theory. Four centra...

The aim of this paper is to show that there is a reciprocal dependency relationship between social cognition and social ontology. It is argued that, on the one hand, the existence conditions of socially meaningful objects and of social groups are about sucjets’ social cognitive processes and interactive patterns and, on the other hand, social cognitive processes and interactive patterns are mod...

The purpose of this column is to provide an overview of social cognition in schizophrenia. The column begins with a short introduction to social cognition. Then, we describe the application of social cognition to the study of schizophrenia, with an emphasis on key domains (i.e., emotion perception, Theory of Mind, and attributional style). We conclude the column by discussing the relationship o...

Social cognitive career theory (SCCT) recognises the importance of individual differences and contextual influences in the career decision-making process. In extending the SCCT choice model, this study tested the role of personality, social supports, and the SCCT variables of selfefficacy, outcome expectations and goals in explaining the career readiness actions of career planning and explorati...

Although associations between social cognition involving theory of mind and non-social executive skills have frequently been reported, dissociations in performance have also been found. The present study was designed to examine social and non-social cognition in uncomplicated Tourette Syndrome (TS). Adult TS participants without comorbid diagnoses were compared to matched healthy control partic...

The proposed study plans to explore the impacts of computer self-efficacy, outcome expectations, personality, interest in computers, attitudes, subjective norm, behavioral control, social support, and perceived IT job availability on college students’ decisions to pursue information technology careers. The paper will develop a theoretical model based on social cognitive theory and the theory of...

employment has effective roles in socio-economic development and process job career is considered as one of important issue. also, job career is most important decisions that human decides over the life. overall, students are facing with two options for job career. first option is employed and second option is entrepreneurship. factors cognition that influencing on job career lead to better und...