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Bullock-Yowell, Emily; Peterson, Gary W.; Reardon, Robert C.; Leierer, Stephen J.; Reed, Corey A. – Career Development Quarterly, 2011
According to cognitive information processing theory, career thoughts mediate the relationship between career and life stress and the ensuing career decision state. Using a sample of 232 college students and structural equation modeling, this study found that an increase in career and life stress was associated with an increase in negative career…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Career Choice, Stress Variables, Decision Making
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Duys, David K.; Ward, Janice E.; Maxwell, Jane A.; Eaton-Comerford, Leslie – Career Development Quarterly, 2008
This article explores implications of Tiedeman's original theory for career counselors. Some components of the theory seem to be compatible with existing volatile job market conditions. Notions of career path recycling, development in reverse, nonlinear progress, and parallel streams in career development are explored. Suggestions are made for…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Career Counseling, Career Development, Counseling Psychology
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Newman, Jody L.; And Others – Career Development Quarterly, 1989
Presents six theoretical models that have been developed to represent potential patterns of relationships that may exist between anxiety and career indecisions, in which the models progress from rather simple to complex representations of the relationship between these two constructs. Identifies principles that have a bearing on career…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Career Choice, Decision Making, Intervention
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Shahnasarian, Michael – Career Development Quarterly, 2001
Introduces the concept of career rehabilitation, a paradigm that proposes integrating perspectives from vocational rehabilitation and career development. Encourages counselors to assess how vocational handicaps secondary to a disabling problem can affect a client over his or her "worklife" and to adopt a life-span approach to career decision…
Descriptors: Career Development, Counseling Theories, Decision Making, Disabilities
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Tien, Hsiu-Lan Shelley; Lin, Chia-Huei; Chen, Shu-Chi – Career Development Quarterly, 2005
The authors examined career-related uncertainties perceived by college students in Taiwan. Five hundred thirty-two Taiwanese students responded to a free-response instrument containing 3 questions related to career uncertainties: (1) the sources of career uncertainty; (2) the experiences at the moment of feeling uncertainty; and (3) coping…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Career Development
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Elwood, Judith A. – Career Development Quarterly, 1992
Describes pyramid model as useful tool to assist counselor and college student client in career decision-making process. Notes that the metaphor enables student to understand tasks that lie ahead in career counseling process. Includes case study that illustrates three-dimensional model of career counseling of university students. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, College Students, Counseling Techniques
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Katz, Martin R. – Career Development Quarterly, 1987
Provides an overview of a model of career decision making, including self-assessment of dimensions of values, activities, dislikes and abilities, and education and training. Discusses sources and analyses of occupational information. Gives particular attention to the career decision workbook "Exploring Careers: The ASVAB Workbook" by the…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Planning, Decision Making, Guides
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Kaplan, David M.; Brown, Duane – Career Development Quarterly, 1987
Administered Career Decision Scale and Self-Evaluation Questionnaire to college students to examine role of anxiety as antecedent or consequence in career indecisiveness. Investigated two theories of career indecisiveness and found both to have merit. Suggests there may be two types of career indecisive individuals. (NB)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Career Choice, College Students, Decision Making
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Nauta, Margaret M.; Saucier, Amy M.; Woodard, Leigh E. – Career Development Quarterly, 2001
Investigates differences in interpersonal influences on career decision making between gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) and heterosexual college students. Results reveal that GLB students reported having more career role models than did heterosexual students. GLB students perceived less support and guidance from others in their academic and career…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Students, Decision Making, Higher Education
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Flouri, Eirini; Buchanan, Ann – Career Development Quarterly, 2002
Using data for 2,722 British adolescents explores whether work-related skills and career role models are associated with career maturity when sociodemographic characteristics, family support, and personal characteristics are controlled. Having work-related skills and having a career role model were positively associated with career maturity.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, Career Exploration, Decision Making
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Phillips, Susan D. – Career Development Quarterly, 1997
Uses the lifespan, life-space model to examine the definition of adaptive decision making. Reviews the existing definition of adaptive decision making as "rational" decision making and offers alternate perspectives on decision making with an emphasis on the implications of using the model. Makes suggestions for future theory, research,…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Guidance, Counseling Theories
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Schumrum, Tiparat; Hartman, Bruce W. – Career Development Quarterly, 1988
Based on a path analytic model, examines how chronic career indecision may develop as a result of growing up in an alcohol-related dysfunctional family. Concludes that, to improve the effectiveness of career counseling, more attention must be paid to differential diagnosis and appropriate intervention plans for clients. (ABL)
Descriptors: Adult Children, Alcoholism, Career Choice, Career Counseling
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Roselle, Bruce E.; Hummel, Thomas J. – Career Development Quarterly, 1988
Used Knefelkamp's and Slepitza's (1976) model of career-related intellectual development to investigate how students at different levels of development think as they interact with a computer-assisted career guidance system, DISCOVER II, which comprises modules on understanding interests, values, and abilities; searching for occupations based on…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Cabral, Albert C.; Salomone, Paul R. – Career Development Quarterly, 1990
Stresses need for model of career decision making that recognizes both normative and chance influences. Discusses role of chance on adult development, ways in which people attempt to understand impact of chance events, and influence of personal characteristics on coping with chance. Summarizes meaning of chance, effects on client decision making,…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Planning
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Karunanayake, Danesh; Nauta, Margaret M. – Career Development Quarterly, 2004
The authors examined whether college students' race was related to the modal race of their identified career role models, the number of identified career role models, and their perceived influence from such models. Consistent with A. Bandura's (1977, 1986) social learning theory, students tended to have role models whose race was the same as…
Descriptors: Role Models, Racial Factors, College Students, White Students