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University Athlete Transition: Making The Jump From Sport To Life, Natascha Wesch
University Athlete Transition: Making The Jump From Sport To Life, Natascha Wesch
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The general purpose of this dissertation was to examine how perfectionism might influence career planning through its relationship with career decision making self-efficacy, career goal setting, and career outcome expectations in Canadian university student-athletes. Specifically, this dissertation addressed two main research questions: Does perfectionism enhance or inhibit career planning in university student-athletes; and is this in turn influenced by the relationship between perfectionism (strivings and concerns) and the social cognitive variables of the SCCT (i.e., career decision making self-efficacy, career goal setting, and career outcome expectations)?
In order to validate and test the measurement models of perfectionism, decision-making self-efficacy, career …