A study of 192 undergraduates attempted to clarify why giving people more occupational information often results in decreased differentiation in career choice. Making the constructs more personally meaningful to students appeared to reverse the decrement in differentiation. (JOW)

Investigated relation between eating disorder and disturbances in object relations and cognitive structure in undergraduate female college students (n=183). Results indicated that eating disorder was predicted by measures of object relations disturbance and cognitive structure. (Author/ABL)

Addresses personal construct systems as vocational schemas, describing a cognitive structural model of vocational development. Illustrates practical application of the model through the use of a vocational repertory grid test in career counseling. (SK)

Subjects, who were pretested for levels of cognitive complexity and occupational positivity, participated in one of four self-administered vocational interventions. Results indicated subjects decreased in levels of complexity but increased in levels of occupational positivity over time. Effects were qualified by the differential impact of various…

Examined the concept of vocational development in relation to structural changes which occur in the cognitive schemata individuals use to process vocational information. Results from 101 college undergraduates indicated that vocational decision-making skills, career exploration, and career planning varied as a function of cognitive structure.…