This paper examines the challenges involved in implementing an action research project. It discusses a project which uses a series of interventions (unfreezing techniques, cases studies in conjunction with analogical encoding and lecturer input) to encourage students to critically reflect on their approach to career decision-making. This paper…

This report contains an analysis of career decision making (CDM), a synthesis of theories and empirical studies related to CDM, and identification of areas in need of further research and/or development. The study includes contributions from the fields of psychology, economics, sociology, guidance and education. An attempt has been made to…

College students changing their declared major were asked to specify what job they were "headed for" in their old and new major choice. A significant number was more specific about choice within the newly chosen major. The proportion of students specific in job choices declined significantly across the college years. (Author)

Students (N=153) were studied and it was found that low career salience was associated with a relatively high incidence of vocational indecision. Results suggest there may be two sources of vocational indecision: high career-salience students who value intrinsic rewards and low career-salience students who do not value intrinsic rewards. (Author)

The Social Learning Theory presented here attempts to explain how educational and occupational preferences and skills are acquired and how selections of courses, occupations, and fields of work are made. Presented at American Psychological Association Convention, Chicago, 1975. (Author)

Findings of a two-phase longitudinal study throw light on the role of sex, race, and socioeconomic background in college seniors' and graduates' occupational expectations and experiences. (Author)

A new treatment, the Vocational Exploration and Insight Kit (VEIK), was developed to increase the number and variety of vocational options a person considers, to increase the variety of information-seeking activity, and to increase the satisfaction a person has with his or her current vocational aspiration. The VEIK is a 15-step self-administered…

Confirmed the hypothesis that women in female career-planning groups would be more able to make career decisions than women in sexually mixed groups, using high school students as the sample. The design called for three groups: one group included only women and two groups included men and women. (Author)

Investigates whether general anxiety or anxiety about choice of a college major and choice of a vocation were related to educational-vocational decidedness. Of the 10 independent variables, nine were found to be related to at least one of the dependent variables, thus supporting the relationships hypothesized between anxiety and career decision…

The investigation described in this study was a two part procedure which attempted to answer the general question: "Do the constructs of indecision and indecisiveness adequately describe disadvantaged individuals who experience difficulties in making a career decision?" The sampling was from a population of disadvantaged high school and college…

This study was designed to test and expand Holland's vocational development theory by utilizing more than a single high point code in classification of personality patterns of jobs. A more "refined" and/or "subtle" difference was shown in the personality-job relationships when two high point codes were used. (Author)

This investigation explored the relationship between vocational information seeking behavior (VISB) and educational and vocational decidedness. Pre- and postmeasures of VISB and educational and vocational decidedness were given to two groups of "undecided" university freshmen. Correlations between VISB and the two forms of decidedness were low but…

A brief career planning experience was examined in relation to the vocational maturity of inmates. (Author)

The objective of the study was to develop and assess the efficacy of competing group counseling procedures for assisting students in decision making. The counseling procedures used videotaped models, structured interaction, and a combination of the two. There were no clear trends favoring any one procedure. (Author)

Utilizing a method of explicit comparison between students' measured characteristics and the measured characteristics of occupational norm groups, the results of this study showed students in the groups receiving feedback increased in the appropriateness of the occupational level of their first occupational choice. A delayed posttest indicated…