The Relationship Between Task-Specific Self-Efficacy Egalitarianism and Career Indecision for Females

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between task-specific self-efficacy as measured by the Task-Specific Occupational Self-Efficacy Scale (Osipow & Rooney, 1989) and career indecision as measured by the Career Decision Scale—3rd Rev. (Osipow, Carney, Winer, Yanico, & Koschier, 1976) for females classified as possessing high or low egalitarian sex-role attitudes. Subjects were 168 female college students who were classified as high or low egalitarian according to their scores on the Sex-role Egalitarianism Scale form KK (Beere, King, Beere, & King, 1984). Pearson-product moment correlations were computed between self- efficacy scores and career indecision scores for the two groups. The results provide minimal support for the hypothesis that there would be a significant relationship between career indecision and self- efficacy as moderated by sex-role orientation. These results are limited due to a negatively skewed distribution on the egalitarianism measure.

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