Career and Lifestyle Development.

Running Head: CAREER AND LIFESTYLE DEVELOPMENT
Career and lifestyle development
Name of the student
Name of the University
Author’s note

CAREER AND LIFESTYLE DEVELOPMENT1
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Discussion........................................................................................................................................2
Social Cognitive career theory.....................................................................................................2
Synthesis..........................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

CAREER AND LIFESTYLE DEVELOPMENT2
Introduction
A career development theory helps and guides towards the professional growth of an
individual. This also assist in career path and overall career satisfaction. An individual should
understand the importance of career development theory because this will help in determination
of individual’s strength, core values, weaknesses and selection of the desired path (Vondracek,
Lerner & Schulenberg, 2019). The theory chosen for the assignment is Social Cognitive career
theory. The objective of the assignment is to describe the major components of the selected
theory which also includes its strengths and weakness. The second part of the assignment is
about the synthesis of the particular theory.
Discussion
Social Cognitive career theory
The social cognitive career theory is the hypothetical framework which explains three
interconnected aspects of career development. The first aspect explains how to develop the basic
interest for the academic and career interest. The second aspects explains that how career and
educational choices are being made and the third aspects deals in how to obtain career and
academic success in life. This theory helps the individual tom learn by observing others. The
theory includes many concepts like securities, skills, values, environmental influences and many
more that affect the career development. The basic building blocks of social cognitive career
theory is self-efficacy, result expectancy and goals. The self-efficacy denotes the beliefs of an
individual about the capabilities to perform. The result expectancy denotes to the principles
about the results of accomplishment of a specific actions. The personal goals defines an
individual’s intention for engaging in a particular activity (Tran & Von, 2016). Therefore, the