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Lent, Brown, and Hackett’s Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT)

Lent, Brown, and Hackett’s Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT). Background. SCCT is derived from Albert Bandura’s social cognitive theory 3 “building blocks” of career development Self efficacy Outcome expectations Personal Goals. 3 Building Blocks.

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Lent, Brown, and Hackett’s Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT)

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  1. Lent, Brown, and Hackett’s Social Cognitive Career Theory(SCCT)

  2. Background • SCCT is derived from Albert Bandura’s social cognitive theory • 3 “building blocks” of career development • Self efficacy • Outcome expectations • Personal Goals

  3. 3 Building Blocks • Self efficacy- beliefs about our abilities to succeed • Primary sources of self efficacy • Personal performance and accomplishments • Vicarious learning • Social persuasion • Physiological and affective states • Outcome expectations- beliefs about the outcome of performing particular behaviors • Personal goals- the determination to engage in a particular activity or to effect a particular outcome

  4. Key Constructs • Interest Development Model • We are attracted to activities that we feel we are competent and successful at • Attitudes and Values • attitudes and values are tied to self efficacy and outcome expectations • Gender and Race/ethnicity • Shape experiences, which influence self efficacy and outcome expectations

  5. Key Constructs • Choice Model: model for the career choice process • Establishing a goal • Taking action to achieve the goal • Attain a level of performance that determines the direction of future career behavior • Performance Model • concerned with quality and persistence of behavior

  6. Empirical Support • Qualitative research on self efficacy has had some consistent, general findings: • It’s predictive • It has a causal relationship with other variables • Gender differences are very influential

  7. Social Cognitive Career Theory • Brown, S. and Lent, R. (1996). A social cognitive framework for career choice counseling. The Career Development Quarterly, 44, 355-367 • Major Tenets • Some people eliminate possible occupations due to faulty self efficacy beliefs or outcome expectations • The greater the perceived barriers to an occupation, the less likely individuals are to pursue those careers • Modifying faulty self efficacy and outcome expectations can help individuals acquire new successful experiences and open their eyes to new career occupations

  8. Social Cognitive Career Theory • Counseling Strategies (Brown & Lent, 1996) • 1. Identify Foreclosed Occupational Options • Help clients construct the broadest possible array of occupational possibilities, even those they may have eliminated as possibilities, or those that are of lower interest • Administer assessments (look for interest and aptitude match) • 2. Analyze Barrier Perceptions • Examine barriers, the likelihood the barriers will be encountered, and develop a plan to overcome the barriers

  9. Social Cognitive Career Theory • 3. Modify self efficacy beliefs • Help clients develop new performance experiences to enhance self efficacy related to occupations • Reanalyze past experiences and examine the development of faulty self efficacy and/or outcome expectations

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