an article by Rhea L. Owens (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada), Thomas C. Motl (Psychologist) and Thomas S. Krieshok (University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA) published in Journal of Career Assessment Volume 24 Issue 4 (November 2016)
Abstract
This study examined the relative performance of three career counseling protocols: a strengths-based
protocol, an interest-based protocol, and a protocol that combined strengths and interests.
Outcome measures included career exploration, occupational engagement, career decision
self-efficacy, hope, positive and negative affect, and life satisfaction pre- and post-intervention. The
participants consisted of 82 undergraduate students enrolled in a career and life-planning course.
Each participant received a career counseling intervention and a Strong Interest Inventory (SII),
StrengthsFinder, or both the SII and StrengthsFinder interpretation.
While all three groups showed
significant gains from pre-test to post-test on most outcomes, results suggest the interests protocol
(IP) was the most effective approach when considering the conservation of resources.
However,
results also merit further exploration of the combined protocol (CP; strengths plus interests) given
the greatest gains were achieved by this approach on all but one construct, though not significantly
different from the IP. Implications are discussed.
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