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Understand the relationship between career self-efficacy

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The gap

There is a need to understand the relationship between career self-efficacy and career exploration among university students. - Prior work has focused on the importance of career exploration, but the relationship between career self-efficac

Evidence profile

Stated in the implications and cells research gap and abstract sections of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2020 and 2026, spanning 4 journals. Those papers have been cited 19 times in total.

Research trend

Established — well-defined area with open sub-problems.

Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

  • Proactive personality and career crafting in Chinese medical professionals: a conditional process model of occupational stigma and organizational career management (2026) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi

    Therefore, future research could examine whether interventions aimed at fostering CEDSE are associated with increased career craft- ing, especially among medical professionals with lower levels of proac- tive personality. Future research could explore whether organizational practices aligned with these identity-building approaches correlate with proactive career behaviors. Instead of treating individual psy- chological development and organizational career support as separate research topics, future work could examine the synergistic effects of integrating self-efficacy coaching, stigma-coping workshops, career The practical effectiveness of these approaches remains to be verified through formal interven- tion studies.

    generalstated in implicationsevidence 5/5
    Keywords: career future examine whether organizational approaches interventions aimed fostering cedse associated increased craft especially among
  • Belief in a Just World Predicting Career Exploration through Future Time Perspective in Chinese Higher Education Students (2026) · International Journal of Environment Engineering and Education · doi

    There is a need to understand the psychological correlates of proactive career development behavior among vocational college students. - Prior studies have not fully explored the role of personal belief in a just world and future time perspective in career exploration among vocational students.

    generalstated in cells research gapevidence 5/5
    Keywords: there need understand psychological correlates proactive career development
  • Exploring Residents’ Experience of Career Development Scholarship Tracks: A Qualitative Case Study Using Social Cognitive Career Theory (2020) · Teaching and Learning in Medicine · cited 19× · doi

    Approach: To address this gap in the literature, we conducted a qualitative case study informed by Social Cognitive Career Theory to explore the professional identity development of residents who participated in a non-research scholarship track that incorporates recommended best practices.

    generalstated in abstractevidence 4/5
    Keywords: approach address literature conducted qualitative case informed social cognitive career theory explore professional identity development
  • The Relationship between Career Self-Efficacy and Career Exploration amongst Final Year Management & Commerce Students at a Selected University in South Africa (2026) · Journal of Human Resource &Leadership · doi

    There is a need to understand the relationship between career self-efficacy and career exploration among university students. - Prior work has focused on the importance of career exploration, but the relationship between career self-efficacy and career exploration is not well understood.

    generalstated in cells research gapevidence 3/5
    Keywords: there need understand relationship between career self-efficacy exploration

Questions about this gap

There is a need to understand the relationship between career self-efficacy and career exploration among university students. - Prior work has focused on the importance of career e… This is supported by 4 representative gap statements extracted from 4 papers, rated weak evidence.

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