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Thompson, Mindi N.; Dahling, Jason J. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012
The purpose of this study was to test a model based on Social Cognitive Career Theory (Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994) that placed perceived social status as an antecedent of career-related learning experiences, self-efficacy, and outcome expectations. Gender was included in the present model and results indicated that gender related as expected to…
Descriptors: Social Status, Learning Experience, Careers, Social Theories
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Thompson, Mindi N. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2013
This study examined the relationship between career barriers (low perceived social status [PSS], experiences with personal and systemic classism, and general ethnic discrimination) and college outcome expectations (COEs) among a sample of 121 Native American postsecondary students. Self-efficacy for coping with career barriers was tested as a…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, Barriers, Coping, Expectation
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Thompson, Mindi N.; Subich, Linda M. – Counseling Psychologist, 2011
This study extended the literature on potential antecedents and outcomes of perceived social status, or differential status identity (DSI). Fouad and Brown's DSI was used as a conceptual lens for examining the relation of supports and barriers to an individual's perceived social status and subsequent career indecisiveness and career decision…
Descriptors: Social Status, Self Concept, Career Choice, Self Efficacy
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Thompson, Mindi N.; Dahling, Jason J. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
The present study applied Image Theory (Beach, 1990) to test how different components of a person's value image (i.e., perceived social status identity and conformity to masculine and feminine gender role norms) interact to influence trajectories toward high career aspirations (i.e., high value for status in one's work and aspirations for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Social Status, Social Behavior, Sex Role
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Thompson, Mindi N.; Subich, Linda Mezydlo – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2006
The relation of social status to individuals' career decision self-efficacy (CDSE) and choice certainty was explored using a new, multifaceted measure of social status, the differential status identity scale (DSIS;, Brown, M. T., D'Agruma, H. D., Brown, A., Sia, A., Yamini-Diouf, Y., Porter, S., et al. (2002). Differential status identity:…
Descriptors: Correlation, Career Choice, Self Efficacy, Social Status
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Thompson, Mindi N.; Subich, Linda M. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2007
In response to the developing critique of traditional sociological measures of social class, the Differential Status Identity Scale (DSIS) was developed. The DSIS is a measure designed to tap the psychological impact on the individual of belonging to a particular social status. Internal consistency reliability and construct, convergent, and…
Descriptors: Social Class, Predictive Validity, Social Status, Psychological Studies