The Investigation of General Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Life Satisfaction of the Job and Vocational Counselor Education Candidates' in Terms of Socio-Demographic Variables

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Burhan Çapri

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The purpose of this research is to investigate the job and vocational counselor candidates' general self-efficacy beliefs and life satisfaction in terms of gender, educational level, the faculty they graduated, the geographical region they live in and social support variables. Research group consists of 357 volunteers (148 women and 209 men) attended to "Job and Vocational Counselor Education" conducted by Mersin University Information Processing Research and Application Center. The data of the research have been collected with "General Self-Efficacy Beliefs Scale", "Life Satisfaction Scale" and "Personal Information Form". "One-way MANOVA" and "t test" has been used in the analysis of the data. As a result of investigations, significant differences were statistically found among the job and vocational counselor candidates' general self-efficacy beliefs and life satisfaction in terms of socio-demographic variables. The findings were discussed according to the literature.
Keywords: Job and Vocational Counselor; General Self-Efficacy Belief; Life Satisfaction

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Çapri, B. (2017). The Investigation of General Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Life Satisfaction of the Job and Vocational Counselor Education Candidates’ in Terms of Socio-Demographic Variables. New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 3(3), 25–33. https://doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v3i3.1614
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