Abstract

Women's career decision has unique problems that are distinguished from those of men's career decision. These problems are the conflict of career and family and the low male-dominant occupational self-efficacy. This Study's purpose is to examine the effect of attitudes toward multiple role planning and occupational self-efficacy on the career decision of female college students. The participants of this study were female undergraduate students of university and junior college(N =663). To measure the attitudes toward multiple role planning, Attitudes toward Multiple Role Planning(ATMRP) was used that was translated and modified. Occupational self-efficacy was measured by Self-Efficacy of 14 occupations that were selected as male- or female- dominant in pilot study. The degree of career decision was measured by Career Decision Scale(CDS). The result was that the Knowledge/Certainty of ATMRP and male-dominant occupational self-efficacy were positively related to the degree of career decision. The female-dominant occupational self-efficacy was negatively related to the degree of career decision. The result of multiple regression indicated that these three factors explained 16% of the variance concerning the degree of career decision. The high knowledge and certainty of multiple role planning may decrease the conflict of career and family, and help career decision of female college students. The relationship between the occupational self-efficacy and the degree of career decision may be explainedin terms of the range of occupations that can be considered. There are more male-dominant occupations than female-dominant. so high male-dominant occupational self-efficacy help consider broader range of male-dominant occupations and make career decision easier. whereas high female-dominant occupational self-efficacy make their occupational alternatives confined to narrow range of female-dominant occupations.