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Time Perspective and Career Decision-Making Difficulties in Adults
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Taber, Brian J. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2013
Decision making is not only contingent upon what takes place in the present but also on how one feels about the past and one's hopes for the future. However, when it comes to time perspective and career decision making, vocational psychology has focused exclusively on future time perspective. The present study examines the relations among past,…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Time Perspective, Adults, Problems
Calling and Well-Being among Adults: Differential Relations by Employment Status
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Torrey, Carrie L.; Duffy, Ryan D. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2012
With a sample of 194 adults, approximately half of which were involuntarily unemployed, the present study explored (a) how calling related to core self-evaluations and life satisfaction, (b) whether core self-evaluations mediated the relation of calling to life satisfaction, and (c) how these relations differed for employed/voluntarily unemployed…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Level, Unemployment, Life Satisfaction
Work Volition as a Critical Moderator in the Prediction of Job Satisfaction
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Duffy, Ryan D.; Bott, Elizabeth M.; Torrey, Carrie L.; Webster, Gregory W. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2013
Building on the Psychology of Working Framework, the current study explored the extent to which work volition functioned as a moderator in the relation between positive affect, core self-evaluations, perceived organizational support (POS), and work self-efficacy to job satisfaction. In a diverse sample of 206 employed adults, work volition was…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Self Efficacy, Predictor Variables, Career Choice
Detrimental Relations of Maximization with Academic and Career Attitudes
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Dahling, Jason J.; Thompson, Mindi N. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2013
Maximization refers to a decision-making style that involves seeking the single best option when making a choice, which is generally dysfunctional because people are limited in their ability to rationally evaluate all options and identify the single best outcome. The vocational consequences of maximization are examined in two samples, college…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Adults, Personality Theories
Calling and Career Outcome Expectations: The Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy
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Domene, Jose F. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2012
Links between young adults' sense of calling, career outcome expectations, and self-efficacy were examined in a sample of 855 undergraduate students from three universities in Atlantic Canada. Hierarchical multiple regression revealed that participants' presence of and search for calling accounted for a small, but significant, portion of the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Self Efficacy, Adults, Foreign Countries
Factors Influencing Career Decision Making in Adolescents and Adults.
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Albion, Majella J.; Fogarty, Gerard J. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2002
In separate studies, 121 high school students and 127 adults completed the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire. Its multidimensional structure was confirmed and the model of career decision making fit both groups. The adults reported fewer difficulties on all subscales. (Contains 60 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Career Choice