The results suggest that in certain areas the environment tends to extend certain characteristics over time. Furthermore, this extension or accentuation effect seems to be associated with the amount of time spent in an environment or college major. (Author)

Graduating seniors who were vocationally undecided as freshmen were compared to seniors who had persisted in a major or had immigrated to each of the six Holland vocational categories. No differences were found on personality as measured by the American College Test. (Author)

Presents a model for conducting research on the career development of special populations. Reviews available research paradigms and offers an alternative framework designed to make maximum use of available data sources while minimizing potential theoretical bias. Presents an illustration of research conducted within the recommended framework.…

Describes an internship program which involves liberal arts students in a career development process in the sophomore or junior year. Components of the program include a liberal arts career internship program, a career resource center, and career planning workshops. (RC)

Examined the relationship between decision-making style, scholastic achievement, and vocational maturity for college students (N=64). Results did not support the hypothesized relationship between rationality and attitudinal and cognitive maturity. Scholastic achievement and lack of dependent decision style were found to be moderately predictive of…

Compared high-school women, first-year college women, and adult women on four measures of career indecision. Results suggested that the adult women were experiencing more career indecision than the high-school and college women. Variables included: marital status, present work experience, the career-related goals and possible impediments to…

The conventional wisdom today holds that educational upgrading necessarily leads to chronic and mass underemployment. This article provides a more balanced perspective on this issue by pointing out some of the plausible and positive consequences of educational upgrading. (Author)

The purpose of cooperative education is to gainfully employ students, part-time or full-time, in fields directly related to their curriculums of study during their enrollment at the institution. (Author)

Describes the strategy at Old Dominion University for postgraduate job placement through the use of career practicums. Describes how fostering a campus culture of students receiving a practical education helps prepare students for careers. Lists considerations for program implementation and provides some of the positive results the program has…

Created a model of persistence by integrating constructs derived from a number of theories relevant to women's career behavior. Results indicate that ability, self-efficacy, support-barriers, and interest congruence each added significantly to the model predicting persistence. Gender and expectancy-valence variables were not significant…

Used qualitative data, gathered from 13 university students and 9 staff in student support services, to identify disabled students' key career issues and service provision issues. Results suggest that enhancing the career development of these students requires that issues in the external environment receive as much attention as the students…

Discusses factors affecting the decline of freshmen college students in undergraduate business programs and the increased enrollment of employed adults taking part-time business classes to advance their careers. Addresses how these trends will affect business schools and the consequences of these trends to the business program enrollment pool.…

Tests two hypotheses: (1) career beliefs are related to career indecision, and (2) disability status influences the relationship between career beliefs and career indecision. Results yielded significant correlations between self-doubting career beliefs and career indecision, suggesting that disability may limit an individual's opportunity to…

Examined why individuals engage in exploratory activity in late adolescence and early adulthood. College students (N=106) completed measures of goal instability, career decision-making self-efficacy, and environmental and self-exploratory activity. Results suggest that self-efficacious beliefs about career decision making and goal-directedness are…

Examined business students' (n=203) attitudes relating to sequencing of career and family events for women. Results indicated gender, attitudes regarding women's timing of career and children, and women's ability to balance work and family demands were significantly related. There was a relationship between attitudes toward timing of marriage and…