Purpose: We applied Barnes's self-efficacy enhancement approach (e.g., mastery experiences, vicarious learning, verbal persuasion, and perceptions of psychological states) to two separate evaluation studies focused on teaching career counseling to master's level rehabilitation counselors-in-training and doctoral level counselor…

Career indecision is a complex phenomenon and an increasing number of authors have proposed that undecided individuals do not form a group with homogeneous characteristics. This study examines career decision statuses among a sample of 362 12th-grade Portuguese students. A cluster-analytical procedure, based on a battery of instruments designed to…

There is a relationship between career indecision and anxiety, however the relative contributions of state and trait anxiety are unclear in the literature. 110 first-year university students completed the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and Career Decision Scale (CDS) to measure anxiety and career indecision. Regression analyses revealed that…

Examines differences in career decision-making self-efficacy, trait anxiety, and ethnic identity for 687 undergraduates. Significant differences by race indicate that White students had higher career decision-making self-efficacy and lower trait anxiety, ethnic identity, and other-group orientation. Ethnic variables were more significant…

Examined 13 career subscales contained in 4 measures of career indecision to determine how different measures relate to one another and how many dimensions may exist across these different instruments using 122 college student subjects. Factor analysis yielded a 3-factor solution accounting for 55.9 percent of the variance. (Author/ABL)