A study of three Polish groups (71 managers, 107 marketing/management students, 75 English-language students) showed that the psychological type distributions of managers and marketing/management students were similar to each other and to U.S. samples. English-language students' types were nearly the opposite and were similar to U.S. liberal arts…

Conclusions of a literature review of 155 sources include the following: (1) genetic sources are more related to vocational interests than previously believed; (2) three-dimensional interest models are being confirmed; (3) research on culture and gender in career development is rapidly increasing; and (4) the adequacy of vocational assessment…

A review of career assessment research identifies advances in several areas: measurement tools, career indecision, career maturity, self-efficacy, psychological constructs, special populations, and disability. Some populations are not well covered. A life-span perspective is increasingly common. Qualitative methods and more sampling beyond college…

Reviews career-related issues for employees with diverse characteristics and job status. Evaluates 44 psychometrically sound career-assessment instruments for their usefulness in dealing with issues. (SK)

Relationships among the Big Five personality factors (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism), career interests, and career self-efficacy (using Holland's realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional types for both of the latter) were examined. Among a sample of 147 college students,…

Big Five personality traits were analyzed in relation to career decidedness among adolescents in middle and high school. Participants were 248 7th-grade, 321 10th-grade, and 282 12th-grade students. As hypothesized, Conscientiousness was positively and significantly correlated with career decidedness in all three grades. Openness and Agreeableness…

This study examines the factor structure of the Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale-Short Form (CDSES-SF) among Chinese college students. Two samples of college students from China were used. The original 25-item CDSES-SF was not supported by the data derived from a sample of 256 Chinese college students (Sample 1). However, a modified 13-item,…

The purpose of the study was to test the classification system for career decision difficulties of college students in a Chinese culture. Five hundred twenty-one college students completed the Chinese version of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire. Data obtained were analyzed by multivariate analysis of variance, factor analysis,…

This study examined the nontraditional career choice goals of 302 Mexican American adolescent men using an extended version of Lent, Brown, and Hacketts (1994) career choice model. It was hypothesized that several background contextual variables (e.g., acculturation level, parental support, perceived occupational gender barriers) would predict…

A study of 71 battered women found that (1) unemployed women had lower career decision-making self-efficacy (CDMSE) and endorsed traditional roles; (2) high self-esteem correlated with greater CDMSE; (3) internal orientation correlated with high self-esteem; (4) external orientation correlated with higher perceptions of career barriers; and (5)…

Knowledge of the working world and career locus of control are associated with career decision making. Racial minorities may experience an external locus of career control and greater career decision-making concerns resulting from limited exposure to mentors or other sources of career information. Access to information may be facilitated by…

Relationships between contextual support, perceived educational barriers, and vocational/educational self-efficacy and outcome expectations were examined for a group of 114 ninth graders from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Results of this exploratory pilot study indicated that sibling and peer support accounted for a significant amount of…

The purpose of the present research was to develop and validate a measure of motivation toward career decision-making activities, the Career Decision-Making Autonomy Scale (CDMAS). The CDMAS is designed to assess the constructs of intrinsic motivation, identified regulation, introjected regulation, and external regulation. A longitudinal study was…

This article reports on the development of a qualitative career assessment activity, the My System of Career Influences (MSCI) Reflection Activity. The article describes the process of developing and testing the instrument. The testing was conducted in two stages with adults and adolescents. Findings from Stage 1 indicate that the MSCI (pilot…

The present study, based on three samples of college students totaling 1,832 participants, resulted in the conclusion that a 5-level response continuum for the short form of the Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale (CDSE) proved at least as reliable and valid as the 10-level continua used in normative studies. Values of coefficient alpha ranged…