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The Effect of Openness to Experience on Students’ Readiness for School-To-Work Transition Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Chinyere O. Elom, Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie, Chidebe Chijioke Uwaleke, Chukwudum Collins Umoke, Sunday Okechukwu Abonyi, Anamelechi Ogai Nwele
This study examines how and whether the constructs of openness to experience in the work placement learning setting (openness to learning in a new environment, openness to supervisor feedback, and openness to diversity) might influence students’ readiness for school-to-work transition. Also, it builds upon the assumptions of the social cognitive career theory – model of self-career management to examine
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Sustainable Career Trajectories in Switzerland: The Role of Psychological Resources and Sociodemographic Characteristics Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Shagini Udayar, Cecilia Toscanelli, Koorosh Massoudi
In the current volatile and insecure professional context, developing and maintaining sustainable careers has become a major concern. This study contributes to the advancement of research on sustainable careers by applying the career sustainability framework in a 7-year longitudinal study on Swiss workers’ career trajectories ( N = 789). We thus aimed to (a) identify various types of career trajectories
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Contribution of Social Bonds to the Development of Scientific Research Identity in Adolescent Participants of a Science Enrichment Program Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Eric D. Deemer, Joseph P. Ogas, Amy C. Barr
An abundance of research on self-determination theory has shown that satisfaction of basic needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness among adolescents promotes the experience of optimal career-related outcomes such as academic motivation and engagement. However, few studies have explored how satisfaction of these needs promotes identification with particular careers, and less attention has been
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Testing the Validity of the Expanded Five-Dimensional Model of Work Orientations Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Tirza Willner, Yuliya Lipshits-Braziler, Itamar Gati, Bar Shachrur
Finding meaning and purpose in work has become increasingly important in today’s volatile world. Work orientations reflect the purpose individuals see in their work. The Work Orientation Questionnaire (WOQ), based on the expanded five-dimensional model of work orientation (Willner et al., 2020), was used to elicit individuals’ purpose of work - calling, job, career, social embeddedness, and busyness
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Associations of Career Decision-Making Strategies With Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy and Difficulties Among French-Speaking Swiss Adolescents and Young Adults Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Nimrod Levin, Jonas Masdonati, Pauline Castella, Elodie Grassi
Individuals differ in the strategies, self-efficacy beliefs, and difficulties that characterize their career decision-making process. Although some strategies are deemed adaptive, the differential links of career decision-making strategies to self-efficacy and difficulties, in general and in various cultural contexts, remain unclear. To address this issue, we investigated the associations of 12 career
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Predicting Outcomes of a Manualized Individual Career Counseling Intervention Over a One-Year Follow-Up From Trajectories of Change in Career Decision Difficulties Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Francis Milot-Lapointe, Yann Le Corff
This study tested whether trajectories of career decision difficulties identified in Milot-Lapointe and Le Corff (2023) predict outcomes of a manualized individual career counseling intervention 12 months after the intervention. Participants were 248 individuals who received an average of 7.79 sessions at a career counseling clinic and were reassessed 12 months after the intervention. Results showed
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Invisibility and Negative Career Outcome Expectations among Racially and Ethnically Diverse College Students at a Predominantly White Institution Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Han Na Suh, Lisa Y. Flores, Remy Johanson-Murray, Sangha Park, Foong Yan Lee
The present study explored the relationship between invisibility experiences, a component of microaggressions, and negative career outcome expectations among a sample of Black, Indigenous, and Peop...
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Social Mobility and Vocational Outcomes: A Psychology of Working Perspective Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Gianella Perez, Ryan D. Duffy, Haram J. Kim, Taewon Kim
The current study was aimed at understanding how social mobility relates to vocational outcomes. Drawing from Psychology of Working Theory (PWT), social mobility was operationalized as changes in e...
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Decent Work, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Posttraumatic Growth From the Psychology of Working Perspective: A Three-Wave Study of Military Personnel Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Jeong Hoon Seol, Young Woo Sohn, Minjun Yoo, Yonguk Park
Scholarly interest in the relationship between decent work and mental health based on the Psychology of Working Theory has recently increased. This study evaluated the indirect effects of survival,...
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Mind the Overlap: A Qualitative Exploration of the Vocational Lives of Veterans Living With Mental Health and Substance Use Conditions Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Brian J. Stevenson, Elizabeth Chamberlin, Camille M. Smith, Taina Teravainen, Ummul Kiram Kathawalla, Lisa Mueller
Veterans with mental health and substance use conditions have poor employment outcomes and would likely benefit from integrated career, mental health, and substance use related interventions. Howev...
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Romanian Version of the Career Crafting Assessment: Psychometric Properties Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Raluca Ioana Chifor, Bogdan Oprea
The notion of career is no longer understood as a progressive advancement within the same organization, but rather as a lifelong dynamic transition between multiple jobs. Lee et al. (2021) develope...
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A Process Model of Career Decision-Making and Adaptation Under Uncertainty: Expanding the Dual-Process Theory of Career Decision-Making Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Hui Xu, Lisa Y. Flores
The dual-process theory of career decision-making (DTC; Xu, 2021a; 2021b) resulted from a synthesized and critical reflection of career decision-making and related models in the contemporary psycho...
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The Relationship Between Parental Attachment and Career Aspirations in Indian Female Undergraduate Students Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Avantika Bhatia, Simran Rana, Margo Gregor
The purpose of the present study was to examine the career aspirations of Indian female undergraduate students, by utilizing a theoretical framework integrating Attachment Theory and Social Cogniti...
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Predicting Decent Work Among US Black Workers: Examining Psychology of Working Theory Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Tiffany R. Williams, Kelsey L. Autin, Jayla Pugh, Megan E. Herdt, Roberto G. Garcia, Dana Jennings, Taylor Roberts
The U.S. has a history of marginalizing Black people. Marginalization impedes Black Americans’ ability to secure wealth, education, and meaningful work. The Psychology of Working Theory (PWT) uses ...
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Pre-Occupation: A Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression of Gender Differences in Adolescent Vocational Interests Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Kristi Baerg MacDonald, Alex Benson, John Kitchener Sakaluk, Julie Aitken Schermer
Vocational interests have important implications for a range of life outcomes, such as satisfaction with career choice. Extending research on gender differences in vocational interests with adult s...
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Job Desperation: Scale Development and Construct Validation Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Brent A. Stevenor, Michael J. Zickar
We introduce a new construct to the vocational behavior literature: job desperation. Job desperation is defined as a state of despair in which a person feels pressure to find a new job, has a negat...
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On the Combined Role of Work Engagement and Burnout Among Novice Nurses: A Longitudinal Person-Centered Analysis Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Nicolas Gillet, Claude Fernet, Yael Blechman, Alexandre J. S. Morin
This study examined the profiles taken by global and specific facets of work engagement and burnout among a sample of novice (M tenure = 3.77 years) nurses (n = 570; 88.4% females; Mage = 29.3 year...
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Trajectories of Change in Career Decision Difficulties During a Manualized Individual Career Counseling Intervention: The Influence of Counselor Adherence, Working Alliance and Client Personality Traits Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Francis Milot-Lapointe, Yann Le Corff
This study aimed to identify trajectories of change in client career decision difficulties during a manualized career counseling intervention and examine the role of counselor adherence, working al...
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Reciprocal Effects of Career Adaptability and Occupational Self-Efficacy: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study With Varying Time Lags Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Judith Volmer, Daniel Spurk, Maximilian Orth, Anja Göritz
Researchers widely agree upon the pivotal role of career self-management in vocational development. Yet, little is known about how core self-management constructs denoting agentic capacity affect e...
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The Work Interevention Network (WIN): Foundations of a Holistic Vocational Intervention Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Kelsey L. Autin, Blake A. Allan, David L. Blustein, Saliha Kozan, Ofer Sharone, Brian J. Stevenson, Rachel Gali Cinamon, Joaquim Ferreira, Mindi N. Thompson
The aim of the current study was to examine whether the key constructs targeted in the Work Intervention Network (WIN) intervention uniquely predicted well-being outcomes and mediated relations bet...
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Extending the Psychology of Working Model for Latinx Youth: Incorporating Youth Voice Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Maureen E. Kenny, Mary Beth Medvide, XiYue Wu, Karley M. P. Guterres, Yunqing Yang
Psychology of working theory (PWT) emphasizes the role of contextual constraints in career development, as well as promotive factors that might be cultivated to navigate these constraints. Although...
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Career Adapt-Abilities Scale–Short Form: Validation among Portuguese University Students and Workers Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Joana Soares, Maria do Céu Taveira, Paula Barroso, Ana Daniela Silva
Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS) was recently reduced to a briefer 12-items version, the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale-Short Form (CAAS-SF). Considering its advantages in long protocols, we valid...
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Beliefs About the Malleability of Professional Skills and Abilities: Development and Validation of a Scale Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Antje Schmitt, Susanne Scheibe
The concept of a professional skills and abilities mindset denotes beliefs that professional skills and abilities are either malleable (growth mindset) or are uncontrollable and difficult to change...
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Development and Validation of the Academic Persistence Outcome Expectations Scale Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Michael B. Kozlowski, Nadya A. Fouad
Outcome expectations, an integral theoretical component of social cognitive career theory, remains almost completely unexamined in the domain of academic persistence, or the decision a student make...
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Development and Initial Validation of the Career Decision-Making Ambiguity Scale Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Hui Xu
The dual-process theory of career decision-making (DTC) adds to the conversation about understanding and facilitating career decision-making from a more realistic and inclusive perspective and high...
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Career Adaptability Development in the School-To-Work Transition Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Chuhang Fu, Yang Cai, Qiandong Yang, Guoqiang Pan, Dezhen Xu, Wendian Shi
The development pattern of career adaptability has an important influence on individual mental health and career outcomes. Based on career construction theory, our study explored the development ch...
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Academic Satisfaction of Women Students of Color in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Roles of Discrimination, Proactive Personality, and Critical Consciousness Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Chan Jeong Park, Patrick J. Rottinghaus
Underrepresentation of women and students of color has been a longstanding issue in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The present study examined factors that contribute to a...
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Daily Environments During Emerging Adulthood and Gender Atypical Occupational Choices: The Role of Sexist Experiences Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-21 Katie M. Lawson, Mackenzie J. Miller, Kanila L. Brown, Chloe M. Woodling
Past research on occupational choices often focuses on the role of personal attributes. Research is needed that examines whether daily environments and individuals’ reactivity to these environments...
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Viewing the Joint Operation of Five Major Decision Difficulties Within the Dual-Process Theory of Career Decision-Making Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Hui Xu
While research has identified a five-factor model of career decision-making difficulty based on meta-analytical evidence and cross-cultural comparison, the field lacks an elaborated theoretical acc...
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Work Needs Satisfaction Scale- Spanish Version: Psychometric Properties and Validity Evidence Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Kelsey L. Autin, Andrew J. Shelton, Roberto G. Garcia, Willy Anthony Diaz Tapia, Germán A. Cadenas
With a growing Latinx workforce in the U.S., many of whom are Spanish-speaking, there is a pressing need to examine key constructs related to vocational well-being in this population. The aim of the current study was to validate a Spanish language version of the Work Needs Satisfaction Scales (WNSS; Autin et al., 2019). The WNSS comprises a set of scales developed to measure satisfaction of survival
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Profiles of Decent Work and Precarious Work: Exploring Macro-Level Predictors and Mental Health Outcomes Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-12 David L. Blustein, Blake A. Allan, Alekzander Davila, Camille M. Smith, Michael Gordon, XiYue Wu, Lauren Milo, Nathan Whitson
Using a person-centered approach, this study explored the interrelationship between decent work and precarious work via a latent profile analysis (LPA). This investigation sought to replicate the latent profiles from Blustein and colleagues (2020) and extend the results by examining the role of individual lifetime experiences of macro-level factors (economic constraints and marginalization) as predictors
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A Multi-Group Study of Psychological Capital and Job Search Behaviours Among University Graduates With and Without Work Placement Learning Experience Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-14 Rowland Chukwuemeka Uwakwe, Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie, Christian Ehiobuche, Chinedu Ochinanwata, Ifeanyi Matthew Idike
We build upon the social cognitive career theory model of career self-management (SCCT-CSM) to test the effects of psychological capital constructs (hope, self-efficacy, optimism and resilience) on...
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Does the Attainment of Vocational Aspirations Make Youths Happy? Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Hyung In Park, Seunghee Lee, Bora Lee
The current study aims to investigate the developmental perspective on the relationships between person-vocation (P-V) fit and its criteria (extrinsic job satisfaction, workplace satisfaction, and ...
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I Can’t Quit: Experiences of Black Women in STEM Professions Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Margery S. Sendze
Using job embeddedness theory, this study investigated the off- and on-the-job forces experienced at the axis of race and gender that contribute to Black women staying in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professions. Using purposive, snowball sampling, 13 Black women with STEM degrees and professional experience were selected for semi-structured interviews via Zoom. Tensions
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Subjective Career Success, Career Competencies, and Perceived Employability: Three-way Interaction Effects on Organizational and Occupational Turnover Intentions Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Surendra Babu Talluri, Nishant Uppal
Despite a plethora of research on turnover intentions, we know little about the impact of subjective career aspects (e.g., authenticity, recognition, and meaningful work) on turnover intentions. Drawing upon turnover theory, we argue that subjective career success negatively influences organizational and occupational turnover intentions. This negative effect will be stronger in the presence of career
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Social Cognitive Predictors of Music Majors’ Academic Well-Being and Persistence Intentions Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Emily R. Cygrymus, Robert W. Lent
Vocational psychology has devoted limited attention to factors that promote or hinder the career development of musicians. We combined features of social cognitive career theory’s (SCCT) well-being and choice models to examine the experiences of musicians at a formative point in their career development – the first few years of college, during which many would-be musicians either reaffirm or abandon
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A Multiple Mediational Meta-Analysis of the Influence of Proactive Personality on Subjective Career Success at the Career Exploration Stage Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Haibo Yu, Zhenhua Dong, Xiaoyu Guan, Changli Yan, Xia Su, Long Cheng
Drawing on the career construction theory model of adaptation, this meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) examines the effects of proactive personality on the subjective career success of adolescents and emerging adults. We identified 46 studies that covered 52 independent samples and 24,092 participants through literature retrieval. Based on these studies, we created an integrative model
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Development of a Three-Dimensional Measure of the Calling Work Orientation: Assessing Craftsmanship, Kinship, and Serving Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Gargi Sawhney, Thomas W. Britt, Kristen J. Black, Chloe Wilson
Although conceptualized as a multidimensional construct, the majority of measures of calling are unidimensional. In order to further expand the operationalization of calling, this study developed and validated a measure of the three dimensions of calling, namely, craftsmanship, kinship, and serving using three separate samples. Using a sample of 85 undergraduate students, the pilot study established
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An Examination of Psychology of Working Theory With Immigrant Workers in the United States Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Taewon Kim, Kelsey Autin, Blake A. Allan
As the proportion of immigrant workers in the United States grows, understanding how contextual constraints restrict immigrant workers from securing decent work is critical. Therefore, drawing from psychology of working theory (PWT), this study examined relations from contextual barriers (economic constraints and acculturative stress) to psychological mechanisms (work volition and career adaptability)
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Construction and Initial Validation of the Higher Education Orientations Questionnaire Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Tirza Willner, Yuliya Lipshits-Braziler, Itamar Gati
Attaining higher education continues to be important for successful integration into the 21st-century world of work. The goal of the present study was to develop and test a 5-dimensional model and a corresponding measure of individuals’ orientations toward higher education––the Higher Education Orientations (HEO) questionnaire. The proposed model comprises five orientations: Profession (attaining an
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How Dispositional Gratitude Shapes Employee Well-being and Organizational Commitment: The Mediating Roles of Leader-Member Exchange and Coworker Exchange Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Teng Zhao, Hairong Li, Lu Zheng, Yuyan Zhang
Dispositional gratitude has recently emerged as a variable of interest in organizational contexts. However, it remains unclear whether dispositional gratitude is predictive of employee well-being, with limited theoretical and empirical elucidation of the underlying mechanisms. To address these limitations, the present study investigated dispositional gratitude as a predictor of employee well-being
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The Structure of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire Across 13 Countries Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Nimrod Levin, Shagini Udayar, Yuliya Lipshits-Braziler, Itamar Gati, Jérôme Rossier
Assessing the causes of career indecision is among the first steps in career counseling. Gati et al. (1996) proposed a multidimensional taxonomy of career indecision and developed the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ), consisting of 10 scales that cohere into three higher-order clusters and a total score. However, studies investigating the CDDQ reported cross-cultural variations
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A Longitudinal Study of Relationships Between Vocational Graduates’ Career Adaptability, Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy, Vocational Identity Clarity, and Life Satisfaction Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Lucia Kvasková, Petr Hlado, Petr Palíšek, Václav Šašinka, Andreas Hirschi, Stanislav Ježek, Petr Macek
Career construction theory proposes that high career adaptability leads to positive adaptation outcomes during career transition. However, the specific pathways of how this happens remain underexplored. Drawing on the career construction model of adaptation, we hypothesized that career decision-making self-efficacy mediates the link of career adaptability with vocational identity clarity and life satisfaction
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Critical Consciousness in Vocational Psychology: A Vision for the Next Decade and Beyond Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-24 Germán A. Cadenas, Ellen H. McWhirter
We offer a vision for a vocational psychology that places a larger focus on critical consciousness (CC) to be more responsive to marginalized communities (e.g., immigrants, low-income workers, Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color). CC describes how marginalized people analyze systems of oppression, act toward social justice, and become agentic and hopeful. In this article, we review extant
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Understanding Contextual and Personality-Related Factors Predicting Student Career Certainty in Work Placement Learning Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Cornelius Ofobuisi Okorie, Felix Monday Nwankwo, Harrison Onuwa Iwuala, Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie
This study builds on the social cognitive career theory model of career self-management (SCCT-CSM) to examine the effects of faculty-based supervisor informational support, parental instrumental support and classmate emotional support on student career certainty during work placement learning. It also examined the mediating effects of self-esteem and career decision self-efficacy in the relationships
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What Do Interest Inventories Measure? The Convergence and Content Validity of Four RIASEC Inventories Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Chu Chu, Mary T. Russell, Kevin A. Hoff, Wei Ming Jonathan Phan, James Rounds
Despite the widespread use of RIASEC interest inventories, little is known about whether these inventories actually measure the same core constructs and provide similar career recommendations to individuals. This study investigates the construct validity among four major interest inventories—the Self-Directed Search (SDS), O*NET Interest Profiler (IP), ACT Interest Inventory (UNIACT), and Strong Interest
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Multicultural Vocational Research: Critique and Call to Action Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Neeta Kantamneni, Nadya A. Fouad
Vocational psychology has long argued that career opportunities differ for individuals from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds. Yet, despite decades of research, are we closer to understanding the role of race and ethnicity in career development? The purpose of this article is to systematically review and critique research on racial/ethnic minorities in vocational psychology since critique of the research
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Testing the Career Construction Model of Adaptation in a Sample of Afghanistan’s Working Adults: A Longitudinal Study Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Zane Asher Green, Murat Yıldırım, Rahmatullah Jalal
This study tested the Career Construction Model of Adaptation (CCMA) in a sample of Afghanistan’s working adults amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The measures of adaptation were applied at three time points, that is, positive orientation toward future (adaptive readiness) at Time 1, career adaptability (adaptability resources) and competence need satisfaction at work (adapting responses) at Time 2, and
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Test of a Social Cognitive Model of Proactive Career Behavior Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Robert W. Lent, Taylor R. Morris, Ruogu J. Wang, Bhanu P. Moturu, Emily R. Cygrymus, Jeffrey G. Yeung
We applied the social cognitive model of career self-management (CSM) to the study of proactive career behavior, referring to workers’ active attempts to guide their own career development. Within the CSM framework, proactive behavior is conceived as a key agentic ingredient linking cognitive, social, and personality mechanisms with a variety of career advancement and sustainability outcomes. A sample
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“More than a Job, it’s a Purpose”: A Psychology of Working Perspective of the Working Experiences for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-27 Carly B. Gilson, James Sinclair, Mary L. Whirley, Yi-Fan Li, David L. Blustein
Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) aspire to work, though they are often excluded from the workforce. However, little is known about the perspectives and work experiences of adults with IDD viewed through a vocational psychology lens. Our study focused on the Psychology of Working theoretical (PWT) framework, which is anchored in inclusivity, lived experiences, and equity
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Career Development in Highly Sex-typed Postsecondary Vocational Technical Education Programs: A Social Cognitive Analysis Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Maria Paola Sevilla, Virginia Snodgrass Rangel
Using social cognitive career theory (SCCT), we examined the career development of students in sex-typed postsecondary Vocational Technical Education (VTE) programs in the Chilean context. We assessed the moderating effects of students’ socioeconomic background, sex, membership to the sex-atypical group, and the intersection of these attributes across SCCT measures and the model’s predicted relationships
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Academia During the Time of COVID-19: Examining the Voices of Untenured Female Professors in STEM Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Marianne Dunn, Margo Gregor, Simone Robinson, Anthony Ferrer, Devynn Campbell-Halfaker, Javier Martin-Fernandez
This paper highlighted the diverse voices of 84 female-identifying professors in STEM fields who responded to a series of open-ended questions regarding work, family, and tenure experiences in the context of the current global pandemic. The current paper is part of a longitudinal study of the vocational experiences of tenure-track women in STEM that has examined the “leaky pipeline” in women’s academic
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Instrumental Support, Relational Attachment, and Subjective Career Success: The Moderating Role of Personal Support Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Yasir Mansoor Kundi, Ubedullah Khoso, Nadia Adnan
Support at work has been linked to a wide range of positive individual and organizational outcomes. However, research to date has overlooked its influence on career-related outcomes. Drawing on attachment theory, we examined the relationship between instrumental support and two aspects of subjective career success—job satisfaction and career satisfaction—and the mediating and moderating roles of relational
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Experiencing Meaningful Work as a Lower Socioeconomic Status Worker: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Yerin Shim, Bryan J. Dik, James H. Banning
Meta-analytic evidence suggests that experiencing one’s work as meaningful is associated with many psychological benefits. The experience of meaningful work in people with lower socioeconomic status (LSES), however, is underrepresented in the literature. This study examines how LSES individuals describe their experience of meaningful work (MW) in their unique contexts through an interpretative phenomenological
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Evidence for “Pushed Out” and “Opt Out” Factors in Women’s Career Inclusion Across the World of Work in the United States Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Alex Glosenberg, Tara S. Behrend, Terence J. G. Tracey, David L. Blustein, Jenna McChesney, Lori L. Foster
There is an ongoing debate over the extent to which women “opt out” and/or are “pushed out” of various occupations (Kossek et al., 2017). To advance this debate, we explore the correspondence of women’s interests in stereotypically masculine work activities with the work activities of their occupations/occupational-aspirations. We examine 42,631 responses to a survey of employed and unemployed persons
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Measurement Invariance of the Occupational Engagement Scale – Student and Career Adapt-Abilities Scale across Veterans and Civilians Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Arpita Ghosh, Christopher R. Niileksela, Elizabeth R. Grzesik
Veterans of the U.S. military experience unique difficulties when reentering the civilian workforce, which may inform their post-military career development in different ways than civilians. The purpose of this study was to examine the measurement invariance of the Occupational Engagement Scale-Student (OES-S) and the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale-USA Form (CAAS) across adults with and without a military
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Economic Justice and Vocational Psychology: Towards Community Change Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Saba R. Ali, David Drustup, Yunkyoung Loh Garrison, Duhita Mahatmya
In the present paper, we join the current dialogue in the field of vocational psychology regarding how neoliberal economic trends across the world have influenced the development of theory and approaches to vocational psychology. We propose an alternative perspective, that viewing career development from an economic justice lens, can provide an alternative to the existing neoliberal influence. An economic
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Young Adults’ Self-Regulatory Responses to Positive Career Goal Discrepancies: Testing Cross-Lagged Relationships Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Sari Z. Akmal, Michelle Hood, Peter A. Creed, Amanda L. Duffy
Researchers have assessed young people’s outcomes when they do not meet their career goals, but little is known about the consequences when they do better than expected (positive discrepancies). We (a) tested the cross-lagged relationships between positive career goal discrepancies and the career-related outcomes of upward goal revision, career exploration, and career coasting, and (b) assessed the
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Applying the Psychology of Working Theory for Understanding Adaptive Career Progress of Youth Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Maureen E. Kenny, Richard F. Haase, Brenda W. Tsai, Mary Beth. Medvide, Alekzander Davila
This study extends existing research on psychology of working theory by assessing components of the model among two community samples (N = 364) of high school youth. We examined structural models linking student perceptions of external barriers to higher education to three indices of adaptive career progress, work volition, career adaptability, and school motivation. We also assessed the roles of student
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Career Calling and Task Performance: The Moderating Role of Job Demand Journal of Career Assessment (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Michelangelo Vianello, Anna Dalla Rosa, Sophie Gerdel
The Work as a Calling Theory (WCT) predicts that career calling fosters job performance. A quantitative summary of previous work supports this prediction and shows that the relation between calling and job performance is moderate in size (ρ = .29, K = 11, N = 2286). Yet, the environmental conditions that modulate this relation are completely unknown. According to an interactionist perspective, we argue