Social Cognitive and Self-Construal Predictors of Academic Satisfaction among African Students Attending U.S. Universities

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dc.contributor.advisorLent, Robert Wen_US
dc.contributor.authorEzeofor, Ijeomaen_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.accessioned2014-06-24T05:31:26Z
dc.date.available2014-06-24T05:31:26Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study was to examine select sociocognitive, environmental, and cultural factors that may relate to African students' academic satisfaction. The Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) satisfaction model (Lent, 2004) was used as a framework to test the predictive utility of these factors with students of African descent. The study also examined self-construal as a predictor of academic satisfaction. Self-construal is the way one's thoughts, behaviors, and feelings are guided by one's relationship to self and others (Markus & Kitayama, 1991). The present study revealed that the factors of the satisfaction model accounted for 59% of the variance in academic satisfaction in the African sample. The findings also suggested that self-construal does not influence academic satisfaction directly but rather operates through mediated pathways. Research and practical implications of the findings are discussed.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/15100
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCounseling psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEducationen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAfrican studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledacademic satisfactionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledafrican studentsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSCCTen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledself-construalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsocial cognitive career theoryen_US
dc.titleSocial Cognitive and Self-Construal Predictors of Academic Satisfaction among African Students Attending U.S. Universitiesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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