Women's Glass Ceiling Beliefs and Career Satisfaction in View of Occupational Self-Efficacy

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of glass-ceiling beliefs on women's career satisfaction in view of the moderating role of occupational self-efficacy in higher education sector of Saudi Arabia.  A self-administered questionnaire was distributed and after establishing the validity and reliabilities of the scale, descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis for hypothesis testing was conducted. It is evident that glass-ceiling beliefs (Denial and Resilience) has a strong influence on women career satisfaction whereas acceptance has a moderate impact of their career satisfaction. On the other hand, resignation influence negatively. Occupational self-efficacy affect the glass-ceiling beliefs and women's career satisfaction relationships. Occupational self- efficacy has a positive influence on the relationships between denial, resilience, resignation and Career satisfaction while on acceptance it has a negative influence. It is one of the first studies to be conducted in this domain in the Saudi context.