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Self-assertive efficacy and workplace advocacy behavior: A social cognitive analysis.
Bhanu Priya Moturu1, Robert W Lent1
1Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education, University of Maryland, College Park.
Journal of Counseling Psychology
|October 20, 2022
Summary
Workers who engage in self-advocacy, such as voice and career initiative, experience greater career success. This study validates a new measure for self-assertive efficacy in the workplace, supporting the social cognitive model of career self-management.
Area of Science:
- Organizational Psychology
- Social Cognitive Theory
- Career Development
Background:
- Self-advocacy is crucial for asserting agency in the workplace.
- The social cognitive model of career self-management (CSM) provides a framework for understanding career behaviors.
- Limited research exists on the predictors and outcomes of workplace self-advocacy.
Purpose of the Study:
- To examine predictors and outcomes of workplace self-advocacy using the CSM model.
- To develop and validate a new measure of self-assertive efficacy for workplace advocacy behaviors (SAE-W).
- To test the fit of the CSM model with the new self-efficacy measure.
Main Methods:
- Survey of 511 full-time employees assessing self-assertive efficacy, proactive personality, perceived organizational support, self-advocacy behaviors (voice, career initiative, job change negotiation), and career success.
- Psychometric evaluation of the SAE-W measure in two phases (n=200 and n=311).
- Path analyses to test the CSM model.
Main Results:
- The SAE-W measure demonstrated largely unidimensional properties.
- The CSM model, incorporating the SAE-W measure, showed good fit across diverse demographic groups (gender, race/ethnicity, education).
- Self-advocacy behaviors were linked to career success criteria.
Conclusions:
- The findings support the utility of the CSM model in understanding workplace self-advocacy.
- The validated SAE-W measure can be used in future research on self-advocacy.
- Future research should continue exploring self-advocacy from a social cognitive perspective.
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