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Tinsley, Howard E. A.; Tinsley, Diane J.; Rushing, James – Journal of Career Assessment, 2002
An intervention for 50 career-undecided women helped them identify decision-making barriers, consider vocational interests, and formulate provisional major and career choices. Women who were introverted and whose decision-making style was rational reported greater benefits from the intervention than those whose personality type was perceiving and…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Cognitive Style, Decision Making, Females

Lewis, Mary Miller; Hardin, Susan I. – Counseling and Values, 2002
Empirical research and vocational theory indicate that values are important in career counseling and vocational choice. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of career values to Christian religious values as they might be assessed in career counseling. Results indicate that there was some overlap between religious and…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Christianity, Religious Factors

Saunders, Denise E.; Peterson, Gary W.; Reardon, Robert C.; Sampson, James P., Jr. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2000
A study of 215 students who completed career indecision, career thoughts, and depression measures showed that dysfunctional career thoughts were significant components of career indecision. Depression was significantly associated with career indecision, but it did not capture a significant independent variation in regression analyses. (SK)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Planning, Decision Making, Depression (Psychology)
Meir, Elchanan I.; Melamed, Samuel – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2005
The present research examined the relationship between within-occupational congruence and satisfaction, and attempted to integrate hypotheses and findings of prior studies with the conceptual implications of occupational specialty congruence. Correspondence between vocational interests within occupations and specialty choice has shown higher…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Career Choice, Vocational Interests, Machine Tools
Pekerti, Andre A. – Career Development Quarterly, 2008
This theoretical article presents an interdisciplinary approach to extend the scope of current career theories and their application to the overseas Chinese (OC) in Indonesia. Using an ecological model to analyze culture and an emic perspective, the article discusses several factors that affect careers of OC Indonesians. Factors such as culture,…
Descriptors: Careers, Interdisciplinary Approach, Foreign Countries, Career Counseling
Papastergiou, M. – Computers & Education, 2008
This study investigated Greek high school students' intentions and motivation towards and against pursuing academic studies in Computer Science (CS), the influence of the family and the scholastic environment on students' career choices, students' perceptions of CS and the Information Technology (IT) profession as well as students' attendance at…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Females, Self Efficacy, Student Motivation
Villarejo, Merna; Barlow, Amy E. L.; Kogan, Deborah; Veazey, Brian D.; Sweeney, Jennifer K. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2008
To explore the reasons for the dearth of minorities in Ph.D.-level biomedical research and identify opportunities to increase minority participation, we surveyed high-achieving alumni of an undergraduate biology enrichment program for underrepresented minorities. Respondents were asked to describe their career paths and to reflect on the…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Science Careers, Enrichment Activities, Career Choice
Wolf, Mary Ann – T.H.E. Journal, 2008
The lack of U.S. students entering the science, technology, engineering, and math fields is one of teachers' primary educational woes. Surveys show that the small percentage of U.S. college students who choose to major in a math or science field gets even smaller by the end of students' freshman year. While the responsibility of STEM (science,…
Descriptors: High Schools, Engineering, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Dodson, Thomas A.; Borders, L. DiAnne – Career Development Quarterly, 2006
Men established in traditional (mechanical engineering, n = 100) and nontraditional (elementary school counseling, n = 100) careers were compared on their career compromise choices (sex type vs. prestige), adherence to masculinity ideology, gender role conflict, and job satisfaction. The engineers tended to choose sex type over prestige; the…
Descriptors: Males, Nontraditional Occupations, Sex Role, Job Satisfaction
Germeijs, Veerle; Verschueren, Karine – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2006
This study investigated high school students' process of choosing a study in higher education, using a longitudinal design. A sample of 535 adolescents participated at the beginning, middle, and end of Grade 12. Latent curve modeling revealed evidence for a mean developmental increase in the career decisional tasks of orientation, exploration,…
Descriptors: Models, Adolescents, Grade 12, Decision Making
Germeijs, Veerle; Verschueren, Karine; Soenens, Bart – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2006
This study examined how indecisiveness relates to adolescents' process of choosing a study in higher education, using a longitudinal design. A sample of 281 students participated at the beginning, middle, and end of Grade 12. Findings show that indecisiveness was a risk factor for future levels of coping with the career decisional tasks of broad…
Descriptors: High School Students, Decision Making, Adolescents, Career Choice
Higgins, Jane; Nairn, Karen – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2006
New Zealand's rapid emergence as a late-modern, neo-liberal society following 1984 led to a transformation in the institutional infrastructure for youth transitions from school to post-school worlds. Our research focuses on the ways that young people born after 1984 craft identities in transition. We investigate their perspectives on transition in…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economic Change, Foreign Countries, Career Choice
Marcus, Susan Bass – Journal of Museum Education, 2006
What draws practitioners into the field of museum education? Why do many remain in the field long-term and how do they grow professionally? What challenges reinvigorate the practice or persuade educators to leave the field? Using examples from the course of my career and anecdotes from colleagues, this article identifies common experiences that…
Descriptors: Museums, Career Choice, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Persistence
Sudas, L. G.; Iurasova, M. V. – Russian Education and Society, 2006
The reduction in the total numbers of scientists in Russia has been accompanied by negative changes in the age structure of science cadres. According to data of the Center for Research and Statistics of Science, in 1995, the ratio of specialists of the older age cohort (above the age of sixty) and the younger age cohort (up to the age of forty)…
Descriptors: Recruitment, Foreign Countries, Scientists, College Graduates
Roeser, Robert W. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2006
These papers represent continuing advances in the study of educational and occupational life-paths in psychology. In this commentary, I discuss the findings of each paper within a developmental systems theoretical framework. In doing so, I highlight the continuing need for psychologists to expand their view of the spectrum of psychological…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Psychology, Equal Education, Career Choice