The Impact of Academic Self-Efficacy on the Career Aspirations of Senior Secondary Students

Abstract

The adolescents in schools are often preoccupied with many thoughts of future career prospects. This frequently predisposes these adolescents to irrational thoughts.Such irrational thoughts could be debilitating to the society and psychological well-being of adolescents. Transition from secondary school to workplace, college or university is a ceitical path through which every adolescent must pass through (Cassie,2025). Career related problems often become a developmental phase for adolescents they pass through in making proper career choices for life. What needs to be done first when choosing one’s career is to have career aspirations. career aspirations refer to how much one aspires to achieve success in the chosen field and is something that helps in setting career goals, evolving one’s career and achieving career success.if career aspiration is set high, the likelihood of realizing the aspiration becomes lower and one runs the risk of undermined self-esteem.

Meanwile, the sense of self-efficacy serves as a primary mediating variable in determining one’s specific career. when the learner makes a positive and successful judgment on one’s own academic performance, sense of academic self-efficacy increase and also have a positive effect on achieving goals other than academic ones that is learners with high academic self-efficacy select challenging task and makes more efforts to successfully carry out those tasks and persists even amidst challenges. This paper is concerned about the impact of academic self-efficacy on the career aspiration of senior secondary students.