Overarching Principles of Social Cognitive Career Theory, Self-Determination Theory, and Interest-Driven Career Theory Through the Lens of Young Scholars Program

• In Event: AERA Virtual Poster Session
  In Virtual Poster Session: SIG-Motivation in Education Virtual Poster Session

Abstract

This paper reviews overarching principles of Social Cognitive Career Theory, including familial expectations, self-efficacy, and support, and compares those with overarching principles of Self-Determination Theory, including autonomy, competence, and connection. It applies these principles as an analytic grid to data collected from interviews with pre-college students who are now mid-career and who participated in the 1990s-era Young Scholars Program of the National Science Foundation. SCCT and Self-Determination Theory provide effective markers for the design of workforce development interventions. Coupled with Interest-Driven Creator (IDC) Theory, these frameworks provide important contributions to the design of workforce-oriented initiatives that assure and are fueled by diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging.

Authors

• Racquel Charles, LifeClinic
  Presenting Author

• Alice Jokodola, Pepperdine University
  Presenting Author

• Seung B. Lee, Pepperdine University
  Presenting Author

• Joelle Molloy, Pepperdine University
  Presenting Author

• Kristina M. Lux, Pepperdine University
  Presenting Author

• Eric R. Hamilton, Pepperdine University
  Presenting Author