ERIC Number: EJ1485047
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Aug
Pages: 27
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ISSN: ISSN-0251-2513
EISSN: EISSN-1573-1782
Available Date: 2023-07-06
Using Visual Stimuli in Narrative Career Interventions: Effects of Image-Supported Storytelling on Interview Anxiety and Performance
International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, v25 n2 p1-27 2025
While narrative approaches flourish in contemporary career guidance, insufficient attention has been paid to the sensory input of narrative construction. This study concerns supporting narrative construction with visual stimuli. We examined whether image-supported storytelling preparation improved interview anxiety and performance. Using within-subject repeated measures, we found that although interview anxieties conceived by interviewees and perceived by assessors were negatively associated with interview performance, an image-supported intervention improved performance rating, appearance anxiety and assessor-perceived interviewee anxiety. Combined with practice, the intervention also alleviated other dimensions of interview anxiety, showing the value of visual input in narrative interventions.
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Intervention, Story Telling, Anxiety, Performance, Employment Interviews, Career Guidance, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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Author Affiliations: 1RMIT University, School of Education, Melbourne, Australia; 2The University of Sydney, Discipline of Rehabilitation Counselling, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney, Australia; 3Macquarie University, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Sydney, Australia

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