The Mathematical Resilience Scale measures students' attitudes toward studying mathematics, using three correlated factors: Value, Struggle, and Growth. The Mathematical Resilience Scale was developed and validated using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses across three samples. Results provide a new approach to gauge the likelihood of…

Use of the Self-Directed Search: Computer Version Form R (SDS) with 180 clients (62% women and 38% men, between the ages of 18 and 23) in a college career center is described, with implications for counseling services and research. (Author/KW)

Investigated reliability and validity of Career Key (CK), career guidance instrument, and explored extent to which college students found the CK helpful. Findings from 175 undergraduate students revealed that the students generally found the CK helpful. Investigations of reliability and validity for CK were generally positive. Female students gave…

Uses regression analysis on career development measures to examine whether career maturity indicators are predictive of interest consistency, differentiation, and score elevation. Results indicate that interest consistency and score elevation were weakly predicted by the measure; no relationship existed between the attitudinal and cognitive…

Describes a revised career grid procedure for assessing vocational constructs. Results based on a study of 146 college students indicate that the expressed method was not superior to the supplied method in choice consistency, integration, and differentiation. Also found no significant gender differences in cognitive complexity measures of the…

Examined effectiveness of System of Interactive Guidance and Information and Discover systems on relevant career development outcomes for college students (n=47) and counselors in training (n=36). Both systems were rated highly. Outcome data suggest using these systems as complements to live career development counseling. (Author/ABL)

Summarizes findings from a study that used multidimensional scaling to examine the inherent complexity of vocational aspirations as a measurement construct. Uncovered the perceptual dimensions underlying college students' expressions of vocational aspirations when these aspirations were distinguished as preferences and as expectations.…

Surveyed 92 college students to obtain validity estimates for the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale. Results of concurrent and discriminant validity studies only partially supported the construct validity of the scale, and the use of individual subscales proved uncertain. (Author/BH)

Japanese college students (N = 2,492) completed the translated Personal Globe Inventory (PGI: T. J. G. Tracey, 2002b) Occupational Title scales, and the structural validity of vocational interests was examined. Support was provided for the RIASEC (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional), octant, and spherical…

Examined the relationships of the similarity or dissimilarity of beginning and ending college majors with a test of career decisiveness and the number of college changes in major. Calculated a freshman-senior college major similarity index based on Holland's calculus construct. Found the index to be moderately related to career decisiveness and…

Examined relationship between Holland's personality types as measured by the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and Jung's personality types as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. College students' (N=394) responses to the two instruments revealed significant associations between certain types based on interests and preferences.…

Correlational analyses of data from 185 college students showed that vocational certainty and career indecision were significantly related to self-deception and impression management. More likely individuals were to distort information about self and to deny psychologically threatening thoughts, more likely they were to report high levels of…

Assessed concurrent validity of 1985 Strong Interest Inventory (SII) for college major by matching college students' (n=153) declared or intended majors with Occupational Scales on SII profile and calculating hit rates to determine accuracy of profiles for identifying college majors. SII had concurrent validity for major selection comparable to…

Extended construct validity of Farmer's (1984) Home-Career-Conflict Measure (H-C) by exploring its relationship with measure of perceived sex role expectations of significant others. Single female college students (n=97) completed the H-C and the Attitudes toward Sex Roles scale. Findings indicated that significantly higher home-career conflict…

Assessed criterion validity of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank - Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory for a heterogeneous sample of American Indian college students (N=49). For the analysis of the concurrent validity between major and Occupational Scale score, the excellent and moderate concurrent hit rate for women in the direct relationship…