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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Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Disengaging From Unattainable Career Goals and Reengaging in More Achievable Ones
an article by Peter A. Creed and Michelle Hood (School of Applied Psychology and Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia) published in Journal of Career Development Volume 42 Number 1 (February 2014)
Abstract
Participants were 181 university students who completed measures of career development (self-efficacy, perceived barriers, distress, planning, and exploration) and goal adjustment capacity (disengagement and reengagement).
We expected
(a) that when contemplating unachievable goals, those with a higher capacity to adjust their goals (i.e., to disengage and reengage) would report less distress, more career planning, and more exploration; and expected
(b) that the relationships between goal adjustment and the outcome variables (distress, planning, and exploration) would be moderated by self-efficacy and perceptions of barriers.
We found that those with a higher capacity to adjust their goals by disengaging and reengaging reported more exploration. Less distress was associated with disengagement, but not reengagement, whereas more planning was associated with reengagement, but not disengagement.
Additionally, we found moderating effects for self-efficacy and perceptions of barriers; that is, having higher levels of efficacy and perceiving fewer barriers protected when goal adjustment capacity was lower.
Abstract
Participants were 181 university students who completed measures of career development (self-efficacy, perceived barriers, distress, planning, and exploration) and goal adjustment capacity (disengagement and reengagement).
We expected
(a) that when contemplating unachievable goals, those with a higher capacity to adjust their goals (i.e., to disengage and reengage) would report less distress, more career planning, and more exploration; and expected
(b) that the relationships between goal adjustment and the outcome variables (distress, planning, and exploration) would be moderated by self-efficacy and perceptions of barriers.
We found that those with a higher capacity to adjust their goals by disengaging and reengaging reported more exploration. Less distress was associated with disengagement, but not reengagement, whereas more planning was associated with reengagement, but not disengagement.
Additionally, we found moderating effects for self-efficacy and perceptions of barriers; that is, having higher levels of efficacy and perceiving fewer barriers protected when goal adjustment capacity was lower.
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