Clients of a university career center (n=102) used the System of Interactive Guidance and Information (SIGI) Plus and completed Holland's My Vocational Situation and Vocational Preference Inventory. Persons with higher Social and Enterprising scores rated SIGI Plus lower as a tool to acquire self and occupational knowledge. (SK)

Effects of a brief videotape promoting nontraditional career choices were examined among eighth- and eleventh-grade rural and urban students. Posttreatment realistic, investigative, and social interests of the treatment group were compared with a control group who had not viewed the videotape. Treatment group boys expressed significantly higher…

My Vocational Situation, Career Decision Scale, and California Psychological Inventory (CPI) were completed by 149 students. Factor analysis reduced 20 CPI scales to Extraversion, Control, Flexibility, and Consensuality. Consensuality significantly distinguished high and low career indecision. Extraversion and Control had low to moderate…

Reviews the history of career decision-making measures such as My Vocational Situation, Career Decision Scale, Career Factors Inventory, and others. Assesses Holland's contribution to the accurate measurement of career indecision. (SK)

Scores on the Career Decision Difficulties Questionnaire for 268 college students (86 classified as undecided) showed convergence with the Career Decision Scale. The questionnaire's discriminant validity was confirmed in the areas of social desirability and anxiety. There were statistically significant differences between decided and undecided…

The Decisional Process Inventory is a Gestalt theory-based measure of career decision-making and level of career indecision. Results from a sample of 183 undergraduates supported its content, construct, and concurrent validity. (SK)

The Career Decision Profile can be used by counselors to explore a client's career indecision, screen for readiness, determine services needed, and evaluate outcomes. A survey of five counselors identified reasons why The Profile is or is not being used. (SK)

A Keirsey-Bates personality inventory was completed by 128 occupational therapists (OTs) and 166 physical therapists (PTs). PTs were far more likely to have sensing-judging temperament; OTs were predominantly sensing-perceiving or intuitive-feeling. The five most common OT types accounted for only 19% of PTs and the five most common PT types for…

The process of "callings" continues throughout life. Coaching can connect the present to the future in a meaningful way. Callings represent a value shift requiring revision of the nature and scope of one's central purpose in life and meaningful activities. (JOW)

Describes the purpose and theoretical origins of the Career Factors Inventory, a measure of the antecedents of career indecision. Discusses potential applications, giving examples of its use in counseling, career development, and administrative planning. (SK)

In 4 treatment groups, college students (n=115) made judgments of favorable and unfavorable occupations using Kelly's Role Construct Repertory Test. One week later they rerated their individual lists of 12 occupations and the constructs provided or elicited from them. Although reliabilities were moderately high, there was considerable variability…

College students (n=125) were asked to choose between jobs described by realistic job previews (RJP) and traditional job previews (TJP) under 4 conditions: (1) TJP high compensation; (2) both average compensation; (3) both high compensation; and (4) RJP high compensation. There was greater intent to accept the TJP job in all conditions except when…

Nursing students (n=27) wrote descriptions of the experience of choosing nursing as a career. Influences included intense desire to help others, professional reward, prior work experiences, family and friends in health care occupations, observing nurses in action, something lacking in previous career choices, and fascination with science and the…

Interests and self-efficacy are related constructs that contribute to a better understanding of career goals. The correlation between interests and self-efficacy as measured by the Skills Confidence Inventory and Strong Interest Inventory are very stable; concurrent administration yields a comparison of levels of interest and confidence from…

Study 1 (n=97) provided evidence of the correlation of Holland's model of vocational interests with Schwartz' theory of basic values. Realistic career interests did not correlate with values. Study 2 (n=545) replicated these findings, showing a better match for individuals who had reached a career decision in counseling than for the undecided.…