Describes development and validation of model of commitment to career choices process, operationally defined by Commitment to Career Choices Scale. Defines two independent constructs pertaining to commitment process: Vocational Exploration and Commitment dimension, reflecting variations in level of commitment to career choices, and Tendency to…

Presents a career decision making model for graduating students and other job seekers which focuses on the values the individual holds about the desired work setting and the actual alternatives available to the job seeker. Nine steps in the model are explained and values that may be important when selecting a job are listed. (NB)

Discusses the use of career self-efficacy theory in counseling individuals having low career-related self-efficacy. Begins by presenting diagram of Bandura's model of perceived self-efficacy and then goes on to discuss its implications for counseling. Focuses on how society may alter women's career choices and women's socialization in relation to…

Asserts that inadequate attention has been given to incorporating family members in career counseling setting with adult clients. Explores a career counseling paradigm that takes into account the couple dynamics active in the adult's career choice process. Unique elements of the conjoint model, such as couple career assessment, along with…

The California Psychological Inventory (CPI) includes a three-vector model of personality based on orientation toward people, orientation toward societal values, and ego integration. Scores categorize people into one of four lifestyles with seven possible levels of integration. CPI scores provide helpful information for understanding career…

Examines the limitations of career decision-making models from a theory-in-action perspective (Argyris, 1976). Discusses research implications. (Author)

Reviews research on relationship between cognitive schemas and vocational behavior following from Kelly's (1955) personal construct psychology. Focuses particular attention on traditional study of vocational differentiation and integration as well as more recent efforts to combine these two variables into a structural model of vocational…

Presents a mathematical model utilizing three-letter codes of personality patterns determined from the Self Directed Search. This model compares personality types over time or determines relationships between personality types and person-environment interactions. This approach is consistent with Holland's theory yet more comprehensive than one- or…

Informs counselors of barriers to career achievement for women who choose nontraditional careers. Offers a simulation game, with management as the example, as a psychoeducational intervention strategy or preventive counseling model. Notes that The Management Game is based on empirical and descriptive research. Game directions; chance, situation,…

Describes pyramid model as useful tool to assist counselor and college student client in career decision-making process. Notes that the metaphor enables student to understand tasks that lie ahead in career counseling process. Includes case study that illustrates three-dimensional model of career counseling of university students. (Author/NB)

Examined the factors in the choice of a military career, using a theoretical model. A number of factors are identified, including a need for security, a tendency to conformity, role status, and professional development that may be lost upon leaving the army. (JAC)

Multiple self-referent model provides comprehensive framework for understanding aspects of self-concept formation in African-American women and has implications for understanding career development issues for Black women. Uses excerpts from recorded interviews and autobiographical writings of four well-known African-American women to illustrate…

Used two fundamental models of assertion training to develop a counseling strategy for integrating assertive behavior in the career decision-making process. Includes identification of both assertive skills and thoughts that enhance career decision-making. Focuses on assertive behavior in five stages of career decision-making, not on problem…

Illustrates seven different measures of the ways people structure a career decision. Given sets of occupational alternatives and considerations, the career grid is a decisional balance sheet that indicates the way each occupation is judged on each consideration. It can be used to correct faulty decision schemes. (JAC)

Nine stages are identified in a model of adult vocational development that assumes career development is a life-span process that goes through various structural periods and transition cycles. (JMF)