Pre-service teachers' self-efficacy mediates the relationship between career adaptability and career optimism
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2017
Publication Title
Teaching and Teacher Education
Volume
63
First page number:
176
Last page number:
185
Abstract
Teachers' self-efficacy is positively associated with job satisfaction and commitment. What is less clear in the teacher education literature is to what extent pre-service teachers' self-efficacy influences and is influenced by other psychological factors associated with career engagement. The current research contributes to understanding the complex of interrelations by demonstrating that pre-service teachers' self-efficacy directly predicts their career optimism and mediates the effect of career adaptability on career optimism. With regard to pre-service teacher education, these findings are significant because, like self-efficacy, career adaptability and career optimism are amenable to promotion via learning experiences. Thus, professional learning activities may be tailored to focus on the development of self-efficacy to indirectly enhance pre-service teachers' career adaptability and career optimism. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd
Language
english
Repository Citation
McLennan, B.,
McIlveen, P.,
Perera, H. N.
(2017).
Pre-service teachers' self-efficacy mediates the relationship between career adaptability and career optimism.
Teaching and Teacher Education, 63
176-185.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2016.12.022