The Relationship of Sources of Research Self-Efficacy Profiles with Research Outcome Expectancy and Self-Efficacy

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Abstract

Social Cognitive Career Theory provides a useful lens for examining how participation in undergraduate research experiences and personal characteristics may play a role in the development of their career trajectory. Building on Jones et al. (2023)'s finding that students’ research self-efficacy strongly predicted research outcome expectations, our study explored patterns of undergraduate students’ ratings of the four sources of research self-efficacy via profile analysis and examined how these profiles are related to their research self-efficacy and outcome expectations. Four latent classes emerged, characterized by similar levels of ratings for mastery experience, vicarious experience, and social persuasion. Although the two classes with the lowest ME, VE, and SP scores were not significantly different for ROEQ, SERM means differed for all classes.

Authors

• Leigh M. Harrell-Williams, University of Memphis

• Eli Andrew Jones, University of Memphis

• Luke Walden, Union University