@article{179fc1e6b49c404ba640200b0415a57c,
title = "Talent development, work habits, and career exploration of Chinese middle-school adolescents: Development of the career and talent development self-efficacy scale",
abstract = "This article describes the development of an instrument - the Career and Talent Development Self-Efficacy Scale (CTD-SES) - for assessing students' self-efficacy in applying life skills essential for personal talent development, acquisition of positive work habits, and career exploration. In Study 1, data were obtained from a large sample of Chinese middle-school students (N=15,113) in Grades 7-9 in Hong Kong. The CTD-SES is an 18-item questionnaire with subscales containing items that address students' orientations toward developing their own talents, acquiring and applying positive work habits, and exploring their career possibilities. Evidence is provided for internal consistency, temporal stability, and factor structure of the CTD-SES. Goodness of fit statistics provided support for a three-primary-factor-plus-higher-factor model, and this solution was used in the statistical analyses. The data also indicated that students with plans for university study reported significantly higher scores than those without on all three domains of career and talent development. In Study 2 (N=308) Grade 10 high-ability students' scores in CTD-SES were correlated with scores in career decision self-efficacy and academic performance. The development and validation of CTD-SES is the first step toward investigating career exploration, work habits, and talent development among Asian middle-school adolescents.",
keywords = "Adolescents, Assessment, Career development, Chinese, Individual plan, Life skills, Middle school, Self-efficacy, Talent development, Work habits",
author = "Mantak Yuen and Gysbers, {Norman C.} and CHAN, {Raymond M C} and Lau, {Patrick S.Y.} and Shea, {Peter M.K.}",
note = "Funding Information: The preparation of the paper is partly funded by the Research Grants Council of the UGC (HKU 7295/03H and HKU 7453/06H), Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the Committee on Research and Conference Grant of the University of Hong Kong. We are grateful to Mr Thomas K.M. Leung, Dr Eadaoin K.P. Hui, Ms Sherin Ke, Ms Kan Leung, Ms Virginia Cheung, Mr Jason Kam, Mr Ryder Chan, and Mr Peter Westwood for their input to the project. The project would not be possible without the generous support of the school guidance personnel, teachers, and principals of the participating schools. Funding Information: In Hong Kong, “learning for life” has been the major mission of recent education reforms (Education Commission, 2000). Alongside the academic curriculum, it is expected that all schools will now provide a comprehensive developmental guidance program to support students{\textquoteright} personal growth and to facilitate the acquisition of necessary life skills (Education Department, 2001). Talent development programs – embracing enrichment activities, moral and citizenship education, aesthetic activities, physical activities, community service, and career-related experiences – have been organized in many schools (Curriculum Development Council, 2001; Education Department, 2000). However, there is still a lack of resource materials and systematic guidelines to help program planning and to help identify students with inadequate life skills (Yuen et al., 2003). To rectify this deficiency the authors, with support from the Quality Education Fund and the Research Grant Council, have recently developed a comprehensive guidance curriculum and materials for Grades 10–13, 7–9, and 4–6. The new curriculum covers the areas of Career and Talent Development, Academic Development, Personal Development and Social Development (Yuen et al., 2006). Although these areas are similar to those covered in guidance materials developed in the West (e.g., Missouri Guidance Competency Evaluation Survey Grades 6–9: Gysbers, Lapan, Multon, & Lukin, 1996), the specific content of Western curricula are often not directly applicable to Hong Kong schools or culture.",
year = "2010",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1080/13598139.2010.488089",
language = "English",
volume = "21",
pages = "47--62",
journal = "High Ability Studies",
issn = "1359-8139",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "1",
}