A need exists to better understand how racial/ethnic minority students' critical consciousness development in response to marginalization may be involved in their educational and career development. We therefore examined the link between critical consciousness development and career decision self‐efficacy and career outcome expectations among racial/ethnic minority community college students. Following social cognitive career theory's conceptual pillars, we developed a testable model integrating critical consciousness and social cognitive variables. This model was tested with 135 racially and ethnically diverse community college students. Data analysis included path analyses and tests of model fit using structural equation modeling. Results suggested that (a) higher critical agency is linked to higher career decision self‐efficacy and outcome expectations and (b) critical action and reflection have a bidirectional link and predict higher critical agency. Implications for research and practice aiming to close educational and career gaps among racial/ethnic minorities are discussed.

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种族/少数民族社区大学生的批判意识和社会认知职业成就

需要更好地了解种族/少数民族学生应对边缘化的批判意识发展可能如何参与他们的教育和职业发展。因此，我们研究了种族/族裔少数民族社区大学生的批判意识发展与职业决策自我效能和职业成果期望之间的联系。遵循社会认知职业理论的概念支柱，我们开发了将批判意识和社会认知变量整合在一起的可测试模型。该模型已对135个种族和种族多样化的社区大学生进行了测试。数据分析包括路径分析和使用结构方程模型的模型拟合测试。结果表明：（a）较高的批判性代理与较高的职业决策自我效能和结果期望相关；（b）关键的行动和反思具有双向联系，可以预测较高的批判性代理。讨论了旨在缩小种族/族裔少数民族之间的教育和职业鸿沟的研究和实践意义。