Conducted two-part study to examine reasons underlying finding that experimentally provided vocational constructs are used in less complex, less differentiated ways than are subjects' personally elicited construct dimensions. Findings support significant differences between use of elicited and provided constructs and helped to isolate personal…

Examines the incremental validity of the General Confidence Themes of the Skills Confidence Inventory as measures of vocational self-efficacy in identifying tenured and satisfied membership in 21 occupational groups. Results replicate earlier findings that self-efficacy and interest form similar structures. Results also demonstrate the explanatory…

Results of a one-year follow-up of reentry women (N=121) who previously participated in one of three career exploration treatment groups (Vocational Card Sort [VCS]; VCS-plus-videotape; control) indicated minimal treatment effects. However, the importance of career indecision and its stability over time was supported. (Author/BL)

Studied process and outcome of career counseling case with 43-year-old divorced white woman with 2 teenage children. Across course of seven sessions, client attained her career goals and increased both her career exploration and her exploration stress. She decreased exploration stress, maintained other changes, and crystallized her career goals by…

College students (n=426) were assessed to see whether career search efficacy was able to mediate the relationship between three human agency indices (assertiveness, instrumentality, and interpersonal facility) and three career indices (vocational identity, career decision needs, and career activities performed). The mediator hypothesis was…

Cluster-analytic technique classified 189 rural adolescents according to career indecision type as measured by Career Decision Scale. Resulting three-cluster solution described types of career indecision experienced by adolescents in early exploration stage. Clusters span continuum that includes tentatively decided-crystallizing preferences,…

Compares impact of the Vocational Exploration and Insight Kit (VEIK) with the Self-Directed Search (SDS) and the Vocational Card Sort (VCS). Results indicate the SDS, VCS, and VEIK have small and similar effects on women's vocational behavior. Findings support counselor-free techniques as appropriate and inexpensive methods of career exploration.…

Examined the appropriateness and usefulness of Kuder's General Interest Survey, Form E, with a homogeneous Native American population by comparing the distribution of scores obtained by ninth-grade Native Americans with norms provided in the manual. Results suggest using local norms for interpretations with such homogeneous and divergent cultural…

This investigation examined participants' perceptions of sibling relational influence on career exploration and decision making. Career path influence on sibling relationships and times when these relationships were most important also were explored. Individual interviews were conducted with urban commuter college students, and narrative data were…

Career clients at a university counseling center were placed in self-directed or interactional career workshops. Changes in levels of career maturity and career exploration behavior were tested. People with high goal instability performed better in interactional than in self-directed workshops. Participant preference for interactional workshops…

Tested the effects on social power of two aspects of client need: perceived need (high or low) and commitment to change (high and low). Results show perceived need had no significant effect on attitude change or information seeking. Commitment to change procedures had a significant effect on information-seeking behaviors. (Author)

Effects of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII), Vocational Card Sort (VCS), and Auxiliary Informative Material (AIM) were examined in relation to (a) number and type of career options considered; (b) frequency and variety of information-seeking behaviors; (c) career salience; and (d) satisfaction with the career exploration experience.…

Conducted two studies to evaluate the efficacy of attributional retraining as a career-counseling technique for college students. Results reveal that participants who received attributional retraining exhibited significant changes in career beliefs and attributional style, and engaged in significantly more career exploration behavior than the…

Studied conditions and consequences, the characteristics of agentic (volitional, teleological) human behavior in investigations of weight control, vocational exploration, and eating disorders. Demonstrated the ability of individuals professing eating and exercise problems, to exhibit control; and in separate study examining personality factors and…

Used two different indexing instruments (Gottfredson's forced-choice format and a card sort format) to study the effect of compromise on vocational decision-making process of undergraduate students (N=36). Results provide some support for Gottfredson's circumscription and compromise model; however, complexity of interactions suggest possible model…