The main objective of the study was to determine the effect of rational emotive career coaching on dysfunctional career beliefs in recent university graduates. The research design for the study was a group-randomized trial. The participants of this study were 176 recent university graduates in Enugu State, Nigeria. The instrument titled “Dysfunctional Career Beliefs Scale” was used for data collection. Experts in educational psychology, guidance and counselling and measurement and evaluation at a Federal University in Nigeria validated the instrument. Also, the researchers performed content, construct and concurrent validity of the instrument and used Cronbach alpha method to ascertain the internal consistency of the instrument. Multivariate Analysis of Covariance was performed to answer the research questions and test the hypotheses in the study. Results showed that rational emotive career coaching has a significant effect on dysfunctional career beliefs. Furthermore, there is a significant interaction effect of gender and the treatments on recent university graduates' dysfunctional career beliefs. The researchers recommended, among others, that guidance counsellors should use rational emotive career coaching techniques and skills in reducing dysfunctional career beliefs, unemployed graduates should seek for career counselling from professional counsellors to facilitate their employment process and that governments, institutions, organizations, and individuals should be gender-sensitive on career matters.

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理性情绪职业指导对应届大学毕业生功能失调职业信念的影响

该研究的主要目的是确定理性情绪职业指导对应届大学毕业生功能失调的职业信念的影响。该研究的研究设计是一项组随机试验。这项研究的参与者是尼日利亚埃努古州的 176 名应届大学毕业生。使用名为“功能失调的职业信念量表”的工具进行数据收集。尼日利亚联邦大学的教育心理学、指导和咨询以及测量和评估专家验证了该工具。此外，研究人员执行了该工具的内容、结构和并发有效性，并使用 Cronbach alpha 方法来确定该工具的内部一致性。进行多变量协方差分析以回答研究问题并检验研究中的假设。结果表明，理性情绪化的职业指导对功能失调的职业信念有显着影响。此外，性别和治疗对应届大学毕业生功能失调的职业信念有显着的交互作用。研究人员建议，除其他外，指导顾问应使用理性情绪职业指导技巧和技能来减少功能失调的职业信念，失业毕业生应寻求专业顾问的职业指导以促进他们的就业过程，以及政府、机构、组织和个人应该在职业问题上对性别敏感。性别和治疗对应届大学毕业生功能失调的职业信念有显着的交互作用。研究人员建议，除其他外，指导顾问应使用理性情绪职业指导技巧和技能来减少功能失调的职业信念，失业毕业生应寻求专业顾问的职业指导以促进他们的就业过程，以及政府、机构、组织和个人应该在职业问题上对性别敏感。性别和治疗对应届大学毕业生功能失调的职业信念有显着的交互作用。研究人员建议，除其他外，指导顾问应使用理性情绪职业指导技巧和技能来减少功能失调的职业信念，失业毕业生应寻求专业顾问的职业指导以促进他们的就业过程，以及政府、机构、组织和个人应该在职业问题上对性别敏感。