Title | Validating Brief Life Design Measures: Structural Relationships Among Career Beliefs, Self-Efficacy, and Flourishing in Singapore |
| Author(s) | - Renee Kok,, Republic Polytechnic, Assistant Programme Chair9 Woodlands Avenue 9, Singapore 738964
- Lee Wei Ching. Republic Polytechnic, Assistant Programme Chair
9 Woodlands Avenue 9, Singapore 738964 - Lindsay Oishi, PhD, Stanford University, Senior Product Manager, LinkedIn
- Daniel Davis, San Diego State University, Instructor of Sociology, Department of Sociology
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| Name | Asia Pacific Career Development Journal, Vol 9, No 2 |
| Publication Date | September, 2026 |
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| Abstract | Although Stanford’s Life Design curriculum has been adopted by over 500 educational institutions worldwide to build students’ lifelong career agency, empirical validation of its foundational components remains limited. The present study provides the first validation of shortened Life Design measures and structural test of the Life Design framework in an Asian polytechnic context. A total of 1,115 polytechnic students in Singapore responded to brief measures of certainty-oriented career beliefs, career development self-efficacy, and flourishing. Confirmatory factor analyses supported the factor structures of all three measures, and the structural model showed good fit. Certainty-oriented career beliefs were positively associated with career development self-efficacy, which in turn was associated with flourishing, whereas the direct association between beliefs and flourishing was nonsignificant. Overall, these findings extend Life Design’s proposed mediating pathway to an Asian polytechnic context while indicating that the role of certainty-oriented career beliefs is culturally contingent rather than uniformly maladaptive. |
