ATTRIBUTIONAL RETRAINING INCREASES CAREER DECISION-MAKING SELF-EFFICACY

This study examined whether 60 college students (41 women and 19 men), grouped according to their career locus of control, were differential ly affected by a videotaped career intervention. The intervention was an attributional retraining procedure designed to persuade students to attribute low levels of confidence in making career decisions and car eer-related failures to a lack of effort. Results indicated that the c areer decision-making self-efficacy (CDMSE) of students who initially exhibited an external career locus of control significantly increased after the attributional retraining procedure (p < .05), whereas the st udents who initially exhibited an internal career locus of control dem onstrated no significant increase in CDMSE after attributional retrain ing.