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Vocational Identity Resources in Emerging Adulthood: Associations With Facets of Dispositional Mindfulness The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Ronald Feldt, Matthew Bejar, Jen Lee, Rebecca Louison
The processes of career development and forming a crystallized identity can be fraught with emotional turmoil. One multidimensional construct known to reduce emotional reactivity is dispositional mindfulness (DM). We used canonical correlation analysis to examine relationships involving measures of resources for establishing a vocational identity (Hirschi, 2012a) and facets of DM in emerging adults
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Career Compromise Types Among University Graduates During the School‐to‐Work Transition The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Ji‐eun Ryu, Jinchul Jeong
Because of high youth unemployment caused by structural conditions, South Korean university graduates must compromise their employment preferences and instead accept whatever work is available. In this study, we classified the types of compromises using latent profile analysis to examine various factors involved in the career compromise of 472 recent university graduates during their school‐to‐work
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Academic Engagement and Achievement Predict Career Adaptability The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Jesus Alfonso D. Datu, Jet U. Buenconsejo
Abundant evidence indicates that personality, social, cultural, and contextual factors predict career adaptability. However, little research attends to the roles of academic engagement and achievement in career adaptability, especially in non‐Western cultural contexts. We examined the associations of perceived academic engagement dimensions (i.e., behavioral and emotional engagement) and academic achievement
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Positive Affect and Career Decision‐Making: The Moderating Role of Interpersonal Spin The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 In‐Jo Park, Shenyang Hai, Jos Akkermans, Marijke Verbruggen
We investigated the moderating role of interpersonal spin in the relationships between positive affect, career decision self‐efficacy (CDSE), and career indecision among young adults (16 women, 79 men). Interpersonal spin was calculated using the diary method, wherein students reported their daily interpersonal behaviors for 14 consecutive days. Results indicated that positive affect was positively
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Decision‐Making Styles, Career Decision Self‐Efficacy, and Career Adaptability Among High School Students The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Jelena Dostanić, Katarina Suvajdžić, Željka Krpović–Bojanić
We investigated the relationships between decision‐making styles, career decision self‐efficacy, and career adaptability among high school students. We also sought to determine whether gender moderates the relationships among these three constructs. A total of 216 Serbian final‐year high school students responded to career adaptability and decision‐making measures. Results of structural equation modeling
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Federal Work‐Study Student Perceptions of Career Readiness The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Patrick Akos, A. Joshua Leonard, Amy Bugno
University programming seeks to facilitate career development in a variety of ways. Federal Work‐Study (FWS) participation, similar to internships, provides practical experience and potential career development benefits. Over 3 academic years (2016–2019), 1,752 Qualtrics surveys were completed by work‐study students (77% female, 55% White) at the end of each academic year at one university. Three years
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Validity of The Party Exercise for Determining Holland Codes The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Karen Mottarella, Barbara Fritzsche, Dennis Turner, Shannon Whitten
The Party exercise, found on many career guidance websites and published annually in the best‐selling job‐hunting book What Color Is Your Parachute? (Bolles, 2020), claims to provide a quick and easy way to determine a person's Holland RIASEC (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional) code. We examined whether this commonly used exercise indeed accurately predicts Holland
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Dysfunctional Career Thoughts and Perceived Quality of Parental Relationships in Adolescents With Attention‐Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-12-06 Abiola Dipeolu, Stephanie Hargrave, Stephen J. Leierer, Edward A. Mainzer, Leslie Davies
Attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is known to cause significant difficulties in interpersonal relationships. Empirical research in career development has demonstrated that close, supportive relationships are associated with positive vocational behaviors (Kenny et al., 2018). We examined dysfunctional career thoughts and perceived quality of parental relationships in high school students
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Racial/Ethnic Minority Community College Students' Critical Consciousness and Social Cognitive Career Outcomes The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-12-06 Germán A. Cadenas, Nathalie Lynn, Katherine Melo Li, Lian Liu, Elizabeth Angélica Cantú, Alissa Ruth, Sabrina Carroll, Simeon Kulp, Tameka Spence
A need exists to better understand how racial/ethnic minority students' critical consciousness development in response to marginalization may be involved in their educational and career development. We therefore examined the link between critical consciousness development and career decision self‐efficacy and career outcome expectations among racial/ethnic minority community college students. Following
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Moderators of Career Calling and Job‐Search Behaviors Among Unemployed Individuals The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-12-06 Anna Dalla Rosa, Michelangelo Vianello, Elisa Maria Galliani, Ryan D. Duffy
We examined the relationship between calling, job‐search clarity, and job‐search intensity in a cross‐sectional study of Italian unemployed job seekers (N = 315). Structural equation modeling with observed variables and latent moderated structural equation models were adopted to test whether optimism, self‐esteem, and perseverance moderate the relation between calling, job‐search clarity, and job‐search
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Perceived Career Barriers and Career Decidedness of First‐Generation College Students The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-12-06 Teru Toyokawa, Chelsie DeWald
We examined the effects of perceived career barriers on career decidedness among first‐generation college (FGC) students (n = 149) and non‐FGC students (n = 182) at a 4‐year university (mean age = 19.3 years). Participants responded online to measures of perceived career barriers and career decidedness. Results indicated that FGC students scored higher on lack of support and lack of time and financial
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Student Veterans: Meaning in Life, Negative Career Thoughts, and Depression The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-12-06 Mary E. Buzzetta, Janet G. Lenz, Seth C. W. Hayden, Debra S. Osborn
Student veterans may experience challenges as they transition from military to student life, including adjusting to the academic environment, coping with mental health concerns, and redefining their identities. Research indicates that veterans may have difficulty finding meaning and purpose outside of the military (Brenner et al., 2008; Doenges, 2011). This study explored variables that may affect
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Answered Callings, Unanswered Callings, or No Calling: Examining a Nationally Representative Sample The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-12-06 Dylan R. Marsh, Alexandra J. Alayan, Bryan J. Dik
Research suggests that workers with unanswered callings have poorer outcomes than those without callings; however, these studies have used small or homogeneous samples (Berg et al., 2010; Gazica & Spector, 2015). We aimed to replicate this finding using a nationally representative sample of 445 full‐time workers. We compared key work and life criterion variables across three groups: individuals with
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Inconsistent Vocational Personalities: A Multiple‐Case Study of Commonalities and Characteristics The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-09-07 Suzanne Savickas
To extend Holland's (1997) theoretical proposition regarding inconsistency in vocational personality patterns, this study examined how individuals conceptualize the origin, experience, development, and career implications of their incongruent interests. A semistructured interview was conducted with 10 participants who displayed an inconsistent vocational personality pattern. Cross‐case analysis (Stake
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Career Adaptability, Resilience, and Life Satisfaction Among Italian and Belgian Middle School Students The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-09-07 Sara Santilli, Silke Grossen, Laura Nota
Youth need help with planning their future, developing positive life trajectories, and coping with socioeconomic conditions. Using a life design approach, we analyzed the relationship between career adaptability, resilience, and life satisfaction among Belgian (N = 158) and Italian (N = 158) middle school students. We hypothesized that career adaptability, directly and indirectly via resilience, would
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Social Status and Decent Work: Test of a Moderated Mediation Model The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-09-07 Na‐Rae Kim, Haram J. Kim, Ki‐Hak Lee
On the basis of the psychology of working theory (PWT; Duffy, Blustein, et al., 2016), we tested a moderated mediation model with subjective social status, work volition, proactive personality, and decent work as variables. Data were collected from 225 South Korean employees (115 women, 110 men). Results indicated that work volition mediated the relation between low subjective social status and decent
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Expectations of Career Counseling and Their Effect on Client Satisfaction The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-09-07 Rita Chiesa, Gerardo Petruzziello, Marco Giovanni Mariani, Dina Guglielmi
Although there has been growing attention to clients' expectations of career counseling, more research is necessary to clarify the role of these expectations in shaping client satisfaction at the end of the intervention. On the basis of expectation confirmation theory, this study examined the indirect effect of clients' initial expectations on overall satisfaction through the perceived performance
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Shame and the Psychosocial Costs of Contemporary Work: Implications for Career Intervention The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-09-07 Rachel Gali Cinamon, David L. Blustein
This article explores the concept of shame and integrates it into career development and career counseling. The article begins with an overview of shame from a diverse conceptual framework, describing shame as a self‐conscious emotion that occurs in response to interactions or events that evoke embarrassment, humiliation, self‐doubt, and psychological distress. We discuss the prevalence of shame in
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From Role Conflict to Job Burnout: A Mediation Model Moderated by Mindfulness The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Hyung In Park, Suk Kyung Nam
This study examined the moderated mediating effect of mindfulness as an emotional resource on the relationship between role conflict and burnout (i.e., exhaustion, cynicism, and professional inefficacy) via negative affect. Participants were 481 adult employees in South Korea who provided self‐report data 2 times with a 2‐week interval. The results indicated that mindfulness moderated the relationship
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Big Five Personality Traits and Ambiguity Management in Career Decision‐Making The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Hui Xu
Although ambiguity aversion has been found to impede the process and outcome of career decision‐making, knowledge regarding the association between personality characteristics and ambiguity aversion is limited. Thus, the author examined the prediction of the Big Five personality traits for ambiguity aversion and the mediation of tolerance and confidence in ambiguity management. The results obtained
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Career Decision State and Assessment of RIASEC Interest Structure The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 V. Casey Dozier, Gary W. Peterson, Robert C. Reardon
The career decision state (CDS) was studied in relation to RIASEC (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional) profiles in Self‐Directed Search results among college students (86 women, 27 men). Three CDS dimensions measured by the Career State Inventory (CSI; certainty, satisfaction, and clarity) were examined as predictors of RIASEC primary and secondary constructs. Significant
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Family Influences on College Students' Anticipated Work‐Family Conflict, Social Self‐Efficacy, and Self‐Esteem The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Stephen L. Wright, Jason A. Kacmarski, Dylan M. Firsick, Michael A. Jenkins‐Guarnieri, Abigail J. Kimm
The authors sought to test work‐family conflict (WFC) theory by examining how family relationships may influence WFC, social self‐efficacy, and self‐esteem. They developed and tested a structural model of the relationship between family career influence and self‐esteem through the mediating variables of anticipated emotion‐based WFC, behavior‐based WFC, and the cognitive variable of social self‐efficacy
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Toward Trauma‐Informed Career Counseling The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Janis J. Powers, David Duys
The Adverse Childhood Experiences study (Felitti et al., 1998) showed that early adversity can have a profound lifelong effect on personal development, social relationships, coping methods, and career trajectories. The authors review critical findings related to trauma‐informed counseling practices, discuss literature linking trauma and career theories, and consider how career counseling could address
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From Adaptivity to Adaptation: Examining the Career Construction Model of Adaptation The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Parisa Nilforooshan
The author examined a multiple mediation model and a moderation model for the relationships among adaptivity (in terms of future work self and proactivity), career adaptability, adapting responses (in terms of career decision self‐efficacy [CDSE] and career engagement), and adaptation (in the form of academic satisfaction) among 282 university students. Results showed that career adaptability, CDSE
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Children's Career Expectations and Parents' Jobs: Intergenerational (Dis)continuities The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-03-10 Íris M. Oliveira, Erik J. Porfeli, Maria do Céu Taveira, Bora Lee
Children develop career expectations as they increase self‐knowledge and perceive societal affordances and barriers to life roles. Parents are powerful agents in the socialization of children to work, transmitting occupational concepts that influence children's career development. The authors used Gottfredson's (1981) and Holland's (1973) theories to test associations between children's career expectations
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Comparing Career Development Outcomes Among Undergraduate Students in Cognitive Information Processing Theory–Based Versus Human Relations Courses The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-03-10 Debra S. Osborn, Ryan D. Sides, Caitlyn A. Brown
The effectiveness of undergraduate career courses has been demonstrated for multiple variables, including career certainty, maturity, decision‐making skills, and reduction of dysfunctional career thoughts. Although such studies used the career course as an intervention, most failed to include a comparison course, nor were grounded in career theory. This study used a comparison group of 152 undergraduates
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Early 20th‐Century Career Counseling for Women: Contemporary Practice and Research Implications The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-03-10 Nuha Alshabani, Samsara Soto
The authors critically examine the development of career counseling for women during the early 20th century. The development of career counseling for women lagged behind career counseling for men. Challenges, such as feminization of occupations, restricted occupational opportunities, and societal norms, stunted the development of career counseling for women. Furthermore, career counseling for women
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Counselor Actions to Facilitate Client Change During Life‐Design Counseling The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-03-10 Xiaopeng Tian, Zhi‐Jin Hou, Danni Wang, Suzanne Savickas, Xueliang Chang, Ying Cao, Yin Jia
The authors examined whether and how counselor interventions foster client change during life‐design counseling (Savickas, 2015). Two counseling sessions were conducted. Interviews with the 2 clients and the counselor after each counseling session were done in accordance with interpersonal process recall (Larsen, Flesaker, & Stege, 2008). The results indicated a scheme of counselor interventions that
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Whole‐Life Career Management: A Counseling Intervention Framework The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-03-10 Andreas Hirschi
It is widely recognized that career management and counseling require a consideration of work and nonwork roles. The author presents a career counseling intervention framework to help clients self‐direct their careers and attain work‐nonwork balance. Based on an action regulation approach, the framework consists of 4 stages: (a) clarifying goals across work and nonwork roles, (b) mapping resources
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Self‐Concept, Attitudes Toward Career Counseling, and Work Readiness of Malaysian Vocational Students The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2020-03-10 Poh Li Lau, Tina Anctil, Guan Teik Ee, Jas Laile Suzana Jaafar, Teoh Gaik Kin
The authors examined the relationship between self‐concept, attitudes toward career counseling, and work readiness among 574 Malaysian vocational students. Attitudes toward career counseling have been studied in Western cultures; however, little is known about how career counseling is perceived in Eastern cultures. Attitudes toward career counseling were examined as a potential mediator of the relationship
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A Study of Clinical Change in Individual Career Counseling The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Francis Milot‐Lapointe, Yann Le Corff, Réginald Savard
This study examined the clinical significance of career counseling effects. Participants were 111 university students (83% women) who participated in individual career counseling sessions at their university. All participants completed the French version of the Outcome Questionnaire–30.2 (OQ‐30.2; Lambert, Finch, Okiishi, & Burlingame, 2005) immediately before the 1st session (pretest) and at the beginning
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Affect in Daily Career Decision Self‐Efficacy and Career Choice Anxiety The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 In‐Jo Park, Junehee Lee, Minhee Kim, Ji‐Yeon Kim, Seungmin Jahng
The authors investigated the impact of emotional intelligence on 2 career decision variables: daily career decision self‐efficacy and daily career choice anxiety. They also examined the mediating effects of daily positive affect on these variables. At baseline, 103 Korean undergraduate and graduate students completed questionnaires about emotional intelligence. Using a daily diary method, the authors
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Rural Appalachian High School Students’ College‐Going and STEMM Perceptions The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Pamela H. Rosecrance, Danielle Graham, Sam Manring, Katherine D. Cook, Erin E. Hardin, Melinda M. Gibbons
The authors examined perceptions of key social cognitive career theory (Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994) variables related to college‐going and science, technology, engineering, math, and medical (STEMM) careers in 10th and 11th graders (N = 892) attending 3 rural Appalachian high schools. The authors examined differences in perceptions related to gender, prospective 1st‐generation college student status
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Student Veteran Career Transition Readiness, Career Adaptability, and Academic and Life Satisfaction The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Arpita Ghosh, Matthew Kessler, Katelyn Heyrman, Brett Opelt, Matthew Carbonelli, Nadya A. Fouad
Student military veterans pursuing higher education present with unique career development needs. To better understand these needs, the authors conducted an exploratory study to examine career transition readiness, career adaptability, academic satisfaction, and satisfaction with life among 134 student military veterans (34 women, 100 men). Results indicated statistically significant positive correlations
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College Student Psychological Distress: Relationship to Self‐Esteem and Career Decision Self‐Efficacy Beliefs The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Mindi N. Thompson, Pa Her, Anna Kawennison Fetter, Jessica Perez‐Chavez
College students experience a number of stressors, such as adjustment to a new environment, postgraduation planning, and the balancing of changing roles and responsibilities. These stressors may contribute to increased rates of psychological distress that have implications for their educational and career development. The purpose of this study was to extend understanding of the nature of the relationships
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Discerning Work as a Calling: The Role of Job Crafting The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Missiliana Riasnugrahani, Corina D. Riantoputra, Bagus Takwin, Hana Panggabean
On the basis of career construction theory (CCT), the authors aimed to describe mechanisms by which work may be perceived as a calling. They did so by measuring the mediation and moderation effects of job crafting and power distance orientation (PDO) within the relationship between cognitive flexibility and calling. PDO levels become essential for high‐power‐distance societies such as Indonesia because
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The Planned Happenstance Career Inventory: A Cross‐Cultural Comparison The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Ji Hae Lee, Soohyun Cho, Sujung Lee, Sang Min Lee
This study examined the measurement invariance and latent mean difference of an English version (J. H. Lee et al., 2017) of the Planned Happenstance Career Inventory (PHCI; B. Kim, Jung, et al., 2014) across cultures. Participants were 262 American and 291 South Korean undergraduates. Measurement invariance results indicated that the 5‐factor structure was adequate for both groups and that conditions
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Profiles of High School Students’ STEM Career Aspirations The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Mary Edwin, Diandra J. Prescod, Julia Bryan
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields have a need for recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce. Understanding students’ aspiration to STEM careers is important for supporting underrepresented populations. Data from a nationally representative sample (N = 20,010) of high school students who reported career aspirations were analyzed. Analyses revealed significant relations
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Life Balance and Work Addiction Among NCAA Administrators and Coaches The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Meg G. Hancock, Richard S. Balkin, Summer M. Reiner, Sarah Williams, Quentin Hunter, Brent Powell, Gerald A. Juhnke
Intercollegiate athletics represent an industry prone to challenges of work addiction and life balance. Work addiction and life balance domains in male and female intercollegiate athletic coaches and administrators (N = 245) were examined using multiple regression analysis. Higher levels of stress/anxiety, sleep disturbance, and career satisfaction and lower levels of quality of relationships and friendships
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Using Values‐Based Webinar Interventions to Facilitate Career‐Life Exploration and Planning The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Amy Thul‐Sigler, Edward Anthony Colozzi
Using a quasi‐experimental design, the authors examined whether career indecision could be reduced by participation in a values‐based career webinar designed to translate various types of psychological data (e.g., Holland‐type themes) into values‐based language. Participants (N = 67; 36 women, 31 men; mean age = 36 years) were divided into 1 control and 2 treatment groups. The 1st treatment group received
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Career Outcomes Data From Social Media: Examining Quality in Current Practices The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Julia Panke Makela, Kevin Hoff
Social media websites contain information that can be used to assess career outcomes. Yet, questions remain about the quality of this data source. This study examined social media data collected from a large sample of recent college graduates (N = 3,094), considering how well those data represented the broader population of graduates and to what extent social media data matched survey responses on
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The Career Decision‐Making Difficulties Questionnaire: A Case for Item‐Level Interpretation The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Shékina Rochat
The Career Decision‐Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ; Gati, Krausz, & Osipow, 1996) has long been demonstrated as a useful instrument for career counseling practice. Several case studies have demonstrated how and why using the CDDQ facilitates the career counseling process (e.g., Amir, Gati, & Kleiman, 2008; Gati & Levin, 2014; Levin & Gati, 2014). This study explores how an in‐depth analysis
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Innovative Moments in Career Construction Counseling: Proposal for an Integrative Model The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Paulo Cardoso, Mark L. Savickas, Miguel M. Gonçalves
This article advances understanding of career construction counseling (CCC) by viewing it through the lens of the innovative moments model (IMM) of how clients construct change. The IMM conceives clients’ narrative transformations as resulting from counselors prompting and clients reflecting on exceptions to a problematic self‐narrative (i.e., innovative moments; IMs) that emerges in counseling dialogues
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The Psychology of Working in Practice: A Theory of Change for a New Era The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-09-02 David L. Blustein, Maureen E. Kenny, Kelsey Autin, Ryan Duffy
This article advances the psychology of working theory by developing a parallel change‐based paradigm to guide interventions at the level of individuals (i.e., the psychology of working counseling) and systems (i.e., the psychology of working systemic intervention). The change paradigm presented in this article includes (a) a needs assessment encompassing survival, social connection/contribution, and
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Construction and Initial Validation of the Career Maximizing Scale The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-06-07 Nathaniel M. Voss, Christopher J. Lake, Cassandra Chlevin‐Thiele
Applying the concept of maximizing—careful evaluation of options in pursuit of optimal goals—to career decisions, the authors developed the Career Maximizing Scale (CMS). The measure was administered to samples of working adults and university students across 3 studies. Factor analysis indicated that the measure is unidimensional and has favorable psychometric properties. Career maximizing was related
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Self‐Focused Attention and Career Anxiety: The Mediating Role of Career Adaptability The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-06-07 Yun‐Jeong Shin, Ji‐Yeon Lee
The purpose of this study was to examine how 2 forms of self‐focused attention, self‐reflection and self‐rumination, influence career anxiety. The authors hypothesized that the association between these 2 types of self‐focused attention and career anxiety would be mediated by career adaptability on the basis of a career construction model of adaptation. The participants were 326 undergraduate students
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Identity, Campus Climate, and Burnout Among Undergraduate Women in STEM Fields The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-06-07 Laura E. Jensen, Eric D. Deemer
Women remain underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and these male‐dominated fields are often described as “chilly” and unwelcoming to women. This study examined the potential moderating effect of chilly climate on woman–scientist identity interference and academic burnout among 363 female undergraduate STEM students. Results indicated that identity interference
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Predicting STEM Major and Career Intentions With the Theory of Planned Behavior The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-06-07 Raeal Moore, Jeremy Burrus
This investigation predicted ACT‐tested 11th‐ and 12th‐grade students’ intentions to choose science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) college majors and STEM careers using a measure of mathematics beliefs and attitudes based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB; Ajzen, 1991). The TPB states that the best predictor of behavior is the intention to perform that behavior, and intention
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Situational Interest and Scientific Self‐Efficacy: Influence of an Energy Science Career Intervention The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-06-07 Eric D. Deemer, Pankaj Sharma
This study examined the efficacy of a career intervention aimed at promoting adolescents’ perceptions of scientific self‐efficacy (SSE), as well as interest in specific activities and careers relevant to energy science. One hundred thirty‐four adolescents (60 girls, 74 boys) completed self‐efficacy and interest measures on 4 occasions (Time [T] T1 to T4]) during the course of the 6‐day intervention
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Creative Use of the Career Construction Interview The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-06-07 Susan R. Barclay
Designed as part of an individual career construction and life design counseling intervention, the Career Construction Interview (CCI) and My Career Story (MCS) workbook aid career counselors and other career service providers in helping clients construct, deconstruct, and reauthor their career stories. Recently, some career counselors have developed ways of using the CCI and the MCS in group settings
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Mindfulness and Decision‐Making Style: Predicting Career Thoughts and Vocational Identity The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-03-08 Jacob Galles, Janet Lenz, Gary W. Peterson, James P. Sampson
Mindfulness has been a focus of psychological research and practice in recent decades. Yet, there is limited research on the relationship between mindfulness and vocational decision‐making. This study’s purpose was to examine the role of mindfulness in a career context by investigating the relationships among mindfulness, decision‐making style, negative career thoughts, and vocational identity. The
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Career Decision Self‐Efficacy of Asian American Students: The Role of Curiosity and Ethnic Identity The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-03-08 Young Hwa Kim, Na‐Yeun Choi
This study examined the role of curiosity and ethnic identity in career decision self‐efficacy among Asian American college students. Given that curiosity can promote the process of exploring one’s possible future self, opportunities, and career goals, the authors hypothesized that curiosity would be associated with career decision self‐efficacy, directly or indirectly, through a sense of ethnic identity
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Group Career Construction Counseling: A Mixed‐Methods Intervention Study With High School Students The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-03-08 Jacobus Gideon Maree
This study investigated the value of group career construction counseling in a high school context. The author used purposive sampling to select participants who had sought career counseling. A mixed‐methods intervention study design was also used. Participants (N = 57) completed the Career Adapt‐Abilities Scale–South Africa (CAAS‐SA) before the 1st and after the 2nd intervention. The Career Interest
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Identification and Integration of Career Theory: Students’ Perspectives on the Process The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-03-08 Natalya A. Lindo, Angie D. Cartwright, Peggy Ceballos, Charmaine Conner, Josh Edwards, Sarah Blalock
In many counseling programs, while students are learning about career theory, they may be tasked in a separate course with identifying a theoretical approach to counseling. This may result in a dichotomous situation in which students lack an understanding of the relationship between career theory and counseling theory. Career counselors have long recognized the artificial distinction between career
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Individualized Career Counseling Outcome Assessment: A Case Study Using the Personal Questionnaire The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-03-08 Paulo Cardoso, Célia M. D. Sales
Career counseling has evolved to include practices that attribute a central importance to context variables and meaning‐making processes. Accordingly, there is a need for client assessment tools that consider the subjectivity and cultural specificity of clients and the interface between their work and life concerns. The idiographic assessment of outcomes, which uses individualized measures that involve
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The Structure and Measurement of Career Indecision: A Critical Review The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2019-03-08 Hui Xu, Cecile H. Bhang
This article presents a comprehensive review of literature published between 2000 and 2017 relating to the theoretical and empirical progress of indecision structural models and assessment. Because career indecision remains a central topic for counseling, it is important for the field to achieve an updated understanding of relevant models and measurement. Based on their review, the authors found that
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Comparing Web‐Based and Traditional Career Interventions With Elementary Students: An Experimental Study The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2018-12-06 Julie A. Cerrito, Jerry Trusty, Richard Joseph Behun
Although research acknowledges the importance of the formative years of childhood in career development, there is a disconnection between theory and practice in elementary school counseling settings. This study compared a web‐based career guidance intervention with a traditional career guidance intervention by measuring the effects each one has on the career development progression of 4th‐ and 5th‐grade
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Black Men and Racial Microaggressions at Work The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2018-12-06 Mikaela Pitcan, Jennie Park‐Taylor, Janelle Hayslett
Experiences of racial microaggressions are associated with perceptions of workplace discrimination and linked with poor mental health outcomes. The authors examined the lived experiences of workplace racial microaggresssions among 12 early career professional Black men working in predominantly White organizations (PWOs). The phenomenological experience of racial microaggressions was separated into
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Career Transitions of Highly Skilled Immigrants: Two Case Studies The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2018-12-06 Alexandra Lane, Debbiesiu L. Lee
Highly skilled immigrants face many obstacles in transitioning their career from their home country to the United States and often face challenges in gaining recognition for their skills and credentials. By studying the specific stressors and protective factors these immigrants experience in their career transitions, career counselors can better assist this population through the process. Two phenomenological
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Family Influence, Critical Consciousness, and Career Calling in Women of Color The Career Development Quarterly (IF 1.518) Pub Date : 2018-12-06 Laura Reid Marks, Leigh M. Harrell‐Williams, Kevin A. Tate, Monica L. Coleman, Kanesha Moore
Research on calling has examined the presence of and search for career calling. This cross‐sectional study investigated the relationship between family influence and career calling (presence and search) in a sample of 400 women of color (mean age = 31.2 years) in the United States. The authors also examined whether this relationship was partially or fully explained by critical consciousness. Participants
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