Factors Related to College Going Self-efficacy among Urban African American High School Students

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dc.contributor.advisorLee, Courtland Cen_US
dc.contributor.authorMcKechnie, Jessica Diazen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCounseling and Personnel Servicesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-11T06:14:53Z
dc.date.available2012-10-11T06:14:53Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study examined the relationship between college-going self-efficacy and high school students' perceived levels of achievement goal orientations (mastery-approach, performance-approach, performance-avoidance), vocational identity, need for occupational information, and barriers to occupational goals for a sample of African American urban high school students (N = 200). Furthermore, this study examined the extent to which those factors helped predict scores on the College-Going Self-Efficacy Scale. Findings revealed positive relationships between mastery-approach, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance goal orientation, as well as vocational identity across all subscales of the College-Going Self-Efficacy Scale. Results showed little to no relationship between occupational information, the barriers scale and college-going self-efficacy scores. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses were conducted to explore the predictability of the achievement goal orientation and career related factors on college-going self-efficacy. Results indicated that goal orientation would be consistently statistically significant across all phases of the college going process reflected in their self-efficacy scores and vocational identity was a significant predictor during the first phase and the final phase of the college going process.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/13250
dc.subject.pqcontrolledContinuing educationen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSchool counselingen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEducationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAfrican Americanen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCollege-Goingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRegressionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSelf-Efficacyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledUrban High Schoolen_US
dc.titleFactors Related to College Going Self-efficacy among Urban African American High School Studentsen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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