摘要：This research aims to determine the correlation between self-efficacy and career decision-making difficulties in senior high school students, also to determine the differences in career decision-making difficulties between public school students and private school students. The dependent variable was career decision-making difficulties, and the independent variable was self-efficacy. This research used a quantitative method. The samples analyzed were 193 students of senior high school N and S in Semarang. The data collection of this study used methods of career decision-making difficulties questionnaire and scale of self-efficacy. Career decision-making difficulties questionnaire amounted 38 items with item-total correlation 0.380-0.768 and internal consistency equaled to 0.960. The scale of self-efficacy amounted 29 items with item-total correlation of 0.399-0,614 and internal consistency equal to 0.911. In this research, the data analysis used a bivariate correlation from Pearson and Independent-Samples t-Test. Based on the results of Product Moment analysis, it obtained r = -0.528 with significance level p=0.000 (p0.01) and mean value for senior high school students N of 66.14 was higher than the mean value of senior high school students S of 62.44. The result showed that there was no significance in career decision-making difficulties between public and private senior high school.
