This meta-analysis examined the association between two types of difficulties in career decision making—indecision and indecisiveness—and four types of self-evaluations: generalized self-efficacy, process-related self-efficacy, content-related self-efficacy, and self-esteem. Analyses were conducted on data from 86 studies (N = 54,160): Process-related self-efficacy showed stronger negative associations with career indecision than did generalized self-efficacy, content-related self-efficacy, or self-esteem. In contrast, self-esteem showed stronger negative associations with indecisiveness than with career indecision. The second part of this meta-analysis focused on differential associations between two types of self-evaluations (process-related self-efficacy and self-esteem) and the three major clusters of difficulties in career decision making (lack of readiness, lack of information, and inconsistent information). Based on 19 studies (N = 7,953), the findings showed that process-related self-efficacy was strongly and negatively associated with lack of information and inconsistent information. In contrast, self-esteem was only weakly related to the three major clusters of difficulties in career decision making. In showing that each type of self-evaluation was more strongly associated with certain types and causes of difficulties in career decision making, the present article highlighted the importance of self-evaluations in the career decision-making process.

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职业决策和自我评估的困难：荟萃分析

这项荟萃分析考察了职业决策中两种困难（犹豫不决和优柔寡断）与四种自我评估之间的关联：广义自我效能，与过程相关的自我效能，与内容相关的自我效能和自我-尊重。对来自86项研究的数据进行了分析（N = 54,160）：与广义的自我效能感，与内容相关的自我效能感或自尊相比，与过程相关的自我效能感与职业犹豫不决的负相关性更强。相比之下，自尊表现出与优柔寡断相比与优柔寡断的负相关性更强。这项荟萃分析的第二部分侧重于两种类型的自我评估（与过程相关的自我效能和自尊）与职业决策中的三个主要困难（缺乏准备，缺乏信息）之间的差异关联。 ，以及信息不一致）。根据19项研究（N = 7,953），研究结果表明，与过程相关的自我效能感与信息缺乏和信息不一致密切相关。相反，自尊与职业决策中的三大困难群之间的关系很小。在表明每种类型的自我评估与职业决策中某些类型和困难的原因之间存在更强的联系时，本文强调了自我评估在职业决策过程中的重要性。