Young adults opportunity beliefs and motivational self-regulation during career entry

What is it about?

How do young adults' beliefs about the opportunities to attain SES goals relate with their career-directed motivation during career entry? We find that beliefs that effort and ability will lead to goal attainment promote stronger and more sustained goal engagement with career goals, while beliefs that luck and privilege will lead to goal attainment promote disengagement from career goals. In turn, being highly engaged with career goals is related to more positive progress toward goal attainment, while disengagement from career goals is largely done in a self-protective manner whereby individuals devalue the career goal.

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