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Validating Work Discrimination and Coping Strategy Models for Sexual Minorities
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Chung, Y. Barry; Williams, Wendi; Dispenza, Franco – Career Development Quarterly, 2009
The purpose of this study was to validate and expand on Y. B. Chung's (2001) models of work discrimination and coping strategies among lesbian, gay, and bisexual persons. In semistructured individual interviews, 17 lesbians and gay men reported 35 discrimination incidents and their related coping strategies. Responses were coded based on Chung's…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Coping, Homosexuality, Minority Groups
Using the Adult Career Concerns Inventory to Measure Task Involvement.
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Niles, Spencer G.; Hartung, Paul J.; Lewis, Daniel M. – Career Development Quarterly, 1997
Examined the psychometric properties of the Adult Career Concerns Inventory (ACCI) when used with a behavioral item-response scale. Results support the hypothesized unidimensionality of the ACCI-B Exploration subscales, need for occupational information, career choice certainty, and career indecision. Discusses implications for counselors. (RJM)
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Rating Scales, Career Choice, Interest Inventories
The Need for Congruence between Within-Occupation Interests and Specialty in Mid-Career.
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Meir, Elchanan I. – Career Development Quarterly, 1988
Administered follow-up questionnaire and Ramak Interest Inventory to 260 Israeli men and women who had first completed the interest inventory as high school seniors 19 years earlier. Found vocational interests to be moderately stable, but unrelated to satisfaction at follow-up. Suggests counseling toward appropriate within-occupation specialties.…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Choice, Congruence (Psychology), Employee Attitudes
Reliability and Utility of MVS for a Psychiatric Population.
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Ross, Thomas J.; Spencer, Farida – Career Development Quarterly, 1988
Examined utility of My Vocational Situation (MVS) in identifying career decision difficulties within population of adult psychiatric patients (N=300). Found that MVS could successfully identify those patients in need of vocational training and counseling. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Adults, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Client Characteristics (Human Services)