Authors : Hasrin Mahadi, Norida Abdullah, Lee Mei Ph’ng, Hazmilah Hasan and Hafzan Ariffin
Abstract: Malaysian graduates normally lack soft skills such as self-confidence, positive attitude, job search skill and communication skill. The 68,473 Malaysian graduates were unemployed in 2013. Based on a report by MOHE in 2013, 25% of graduates fail to find work after graduation. The National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN) found that graduates are unable to be employed because of their weaknesses. The 84 technical engineering students (28 males and 56 females) from Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka were involved in the study. The objectives of the study are to study the relationship between self-esteem and career decision making as well as to identify the relationship between social support and career decision making among technical engineering students. The instruments that used in this research were the Rosenberg self-esteem scale, interpersonal support evaluation list and career decision-making self-efficacy scale. The relationship between self-esteem, social support, career decision-making and was validated using the structural equation model. The findings show that there are significant relationships between self-esteem and career decision-making as well as between social support and career decision-making.
Hasrin Mahadi, Norida Abdullah, Lee Mei Ph’ng, Hazmilah Hasan and Hafzan Ariffin, 2016. Self-Esteem, Social Support and Career Decision-Making among Technical Engineering Students. The Social Sciences, 11: 2971-2976.