TY - JOUR
T1 - Social cognitive predictors of well-being in African college students
AU - Lent, Robert W.
AU - Taveira, Maria do Céu
AU - Pinto, J.C.
AU - Silva, A.D.
AU - Blanco, T.
AU - Faria, S.
AU - Gonçalves, A.M.
PY - 2014/6
Y1 - 2014/6
N2 - Lent and Brown's (2006, 2008) social cognitive model of work well-being was tested in two samples of African college students, one from Angola (N= 241) and one from Mozambique (N= 425). Participants completed domain-specific measures of academic self-efficacy, environmental support, goal progress, and satisfaction, along with measures of global positive affect and life satisfaction. Path analyses indicated that the model fit the data well overall, both in the full sample and in separate sub-samples by country and gender. Contrary to expectations, however, self-efficacy predicted academic satisfaction only indirectly, via goal progress; and goal progress predicted life satisfaction only indirectly, via academic satisfaction. The predictors accounted for substantial portions of the variance in both academic domain satisfaction and life satisfaction. Implications for research and practice involving the social cognitive model are considered.
AB - Lent and Brown's (2006, 2008) social cognitive model of work well-being was tested in two samples of African college students, one from Angola (N= 241) and one from Mozambique (N= 425). Participants completed domain-specific measures of academic self-efficacy, environmental support, goal progress, and satisfaction, along with measures of global positive affect and life satisfaction. Path analyses indicated that the model fit the data well overall, both in the full sample and in separate sub-samples by country and gender. Contrary to expectations, however, self-efficacy predicted academic satisfaction only indirectly, via goal progress; and goal progress predicted life satisfaction only indirectly, via academic satisfaction. The predictors accounted for substantial portions of the variance in both academic domain satisfaction and life satisfaction. Implications for research and practice involving the social cognitive model are considered.
KW - Academic satisfaction
KW - Life satisfaction
KW - Positive affect
KW - Self-efficacy
KW - Social cognitive career theory
KW - Well-being
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84899893005&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jvb.2014.01.007
DO - 10.1016/j.jvb.2014.01.007
M3 - Article
SN - 0001-8791
VL - 84
SP - 266
EP - 272
JO - Journal of Vocational Behavior
JF - Journal of Vocational Behavior
IS - 3
ER -