Students’ Career Decision-Making During Online Learning: The Mediating Roles of Self-Efficacy in Vocational Education
Sutiman
,
Herminarto Sofyan
,
Soenarto
,
Farid Mutohhari
,
Muhammad Nurtanto
In the last decade, vocational education in Indonesia has experienced problems in making career decisions for students, which was exacerbated by the C.
Abstract:
In the last decade, vocational education in Indonesia has experienced problems in making career decisions for students, which was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this research aims to examine the role of self-efficacy and mediate digital literacy, social environment, and counselling guidance in influencing career decision-making. This is an ex-post-facto research design with data collected from a sample of 566 vocational education students in Indonesia through a questionnaire method distributed online using Google Form. The collected data was then analyzed using structural equation modelling (SEM) with path analysis and bootstrap methods. The results revealed that self-efficacy plays a vital role in mediating digital literacy and guiding students in career decision-making. On the other hand, digital literacy, guidance, and counselling have a significant direct effect on self-efficacy and career decision-making. Meanwhile, the social environment only has a significant direct effect on students’ career decision-making. The real role of all elements of vocational education in strengthening self-efficacy, growing digital literacy, monitoring social environment interactions, and providing counselling guidance to students is needed to increase optimism and the quality of career decision-making in vocational education.
Keywords: Career decision-making, online learning, self-efficacy, vocational education.
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