Correction to: LGB identity and career decision-making self-efficacy among sexual minority college students

International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance - In the original article published, the first author’s affiliation is incorrect. The correct affiliation of the author Hansori...     

Assessing and changing career decision-making self-efficacy expectations

Conclusion Evidence that a significant percentage of career decision-makers may be helped only partially by traditional information-oriented approaches suggests that career counselors pay increased attention to the personal-emotional barriers which deter many individuals from making and enacting sound career plans. Self-efficacy theory seems to be especially promising as a guide for changing negative expectations, as it offers the counselor a set of specific strategies for assessing low expectations and for treating them. Social-cognitive theory provides a firm research-based framework from which the counselor can encourage clients to gather new efficacy information. Using the basic social-cognitive strategies, counseling can proceed to facilitate the changing of clients' cognitive schemata, by means of the counselor's encouraging clients to consider new evidence and to try further tests of old beliefs. Counselors are encouraged to continue to explore methods for assessing and treating low career decision-making self-efficacy expectations. A self-efficacy-based approach lends itself to the requirement for focused, short-term intervention which is typical of many settings in which career counseling is practiced, while it also ensures that important personal-emotional issues in career decision-making are addressed.     

职业指导中生涯自我效能的干预途径和方法

生涯自我效能是个体对自身有关生涯能力的认知判断,具有动机性作用,对个体一系列的生涯活动发挥着强有力的影响。生涯自我效能的形成和发展有其信息源,有关研究揭示了影响生涯自我效能形成和发展的有关因素。据此可以对个体的生涯自我效能进行干预,帮助个体改善其效能感。     

The career plans of women

The impact of environmental forces and the interaction of occupational and family roles on career plans were explored in interviews with female vocational clients. Twenty unemployed women in career transitions were interviewed over a three-year period. The women were asked about their career plans at age 18, for the immediate, and the long-range future; the life events that happened and the effects these events have had on career directions. In addition, the women were asked whether they feel they are stuck or moving in their current job situation. Themes from the interviews affirm that role priorities for family and work have been shaped by socialization and changing opportunities. Many of the women, who felt unprepared previously to integrate occupational behavior in their lives, now report that the need for adaptability to work roles has become a priority.This research was partially supported by an award to the first author by the Canada Employment and Immigration Commission.     

The dimensional structure of metaphors of career and their relations to career agency,job search self-efficacy,and negative career outlook

International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance - We measured 16 career-related metaphors’ salience to university students and graduates (N = 577). The JOURNEY...     

Married women and career: career history accounts of primary headteachers

This paper considers how the detail of individual life history and career biography can contribute to sociological understanding about women and career. Using career history material from married women primary and infant headteachers, the paper considers what were, for the women themselves, the structural conditions and the characteristics of the teaching labour market. This is followed by an examination of the variations in the attitudes and experiences of individual women to their work and to promotion in their careers. The paper argues that the study of career biography enables us to make the theoretical link between the structural conditions in particular labour markets and the meanings of career to individual women.     

Gender stereotypes among women engineering and technology students in the UK: lessons from career choice narratives

In the UK, women remain under-represented in engineering and technology (E&T). Research has, therefore, investigated barriers and solutions to women's recruitment, retention and progression. Recruitment into the sector may be supported by exploring the career decisions of women and men who have chosen to study E&T. Triangulating quantitative and qualitative data from E&T students at a UK university, this paper examines the gendered nature of career choice narratives. It finds that women often maintain contradictory views; upholding gendered stereotypes about women's suitability for the so-called masculine work, yet also subscribing to ideals that the sector is accessible to all who wish to work in it. This is explained using an individualist framework in which women construct an autonomous sense of self, yet are also shaped by a gendered self. Women's discourse around career choice, therefore, reveals the problematic nature of gender norms for achieving gender equity in E&T.     

A career advancement program for women administrators

Conclusions Although it is too early to evaluate progress toward the distal goal of the CLD Program, this local program has been successful in meeting the four proximal goals (open access, career and leadership enhancement activities, career counseling, and fiscal training). Thus, it has been demonstrated that a variety of local resources can be utilized to address career needs that were not being met by national programs.Marilyn Haring-Hidore is Associate Professor of Counseling and Specialized Educational Development at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Address requests for reprints to the author at the School of Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro NC 27412.I gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance for this program which was provided by the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation and by Women Administrators in North Carolina Higher Education, as well as in-kind support from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. I also thank the members of the project staff: Suzanne Freeman, Susan Phelps, Ray Wooten, and Tammy Biddix-Lyle.     

Associations between career adaptability and career decision-making difficulties among Turkish high school students

International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance - The present study examined the influence of career adaptability and gender on career decision-making difficulties among Turkish...     

Intergenerational effects of college graduation on career sex atypicality in women

This study was designed to determine whether parents' possession of a baccalaureate degree influenced the sex atypicality of the careers attained by their college-educated daughters. The intergenerational effect of mother's or father's possession of a baccalaureate degree was examined for members of two racial groups who were included among respondents to the 1971 and 1980 CIRP surveys. The sample was limited to females who attended a single four-year college or university as first-time matriculants in 1971 and were also full-time participants in the labor force in 1980. A final sample of 1,596 respondents (1,269 whites and 327 blacks) met all selection criteria. A 15-variable block recursive model was estimated to study vocational behavior processes in the subjects as related to five categories of variables: (1) student background characteristics; (2) precollege variables; (3) institutional characteristics of the college attended; (4) measures of the collegiate experience; and (5) outcome measures (educational attainment, sex atypicality of career). Results substantiated the indirect influence of father's and mother's college education on the women's educational attainment and career sex atypicality 9 years after matriculation in college. Intergroup differences in effects suggested differences in family and vocational processes.     

Assimilation attitudes predict lower immigration-related self-efficacy among Israeli immigrant teachers

This study focuses on self-efficacy among teachers working in culturally diverse educational contexts. We put forward the notion of immigration-related self-efficacy and provide initial support for its relationship with the acculturation attitudes held by immigrant teachers. One hundred thirty-three teachers who immigrated to Israel from the Former Soviet Union participated in this study. We found that teachers tend to report high levels of self-efficacy in all the investigated aspects. According to our predictions, immigrant teachers endorsing more assimilative approaches report lower levels of self-efficacy vis-à-vis their immigrant students. Our results can contribute to a critical discussion on the place and roles of immigrant teachers in schools.     

大学生锻炼行为与自我效能的关系

基于行为阶段变化模式.分析锻炼行为与自我效能的关系,为大学生干预策略的发展提供手段和思路.采用锻炼阶段变化和锻炼自我效能量表对1247名大学生进行测壹.结果表明,大学生锻炼阶段分布是前意识阶段167人(13.4%),意识阶段220人(17.6%),准备阶段660人(52.9%),行动阶段122人(9.8%),雏持阶段78人(6.3%).自我效能与锻炼行为之间存在里著相关;自我效能的锻炼阶段特征明显,随着阶段行进显著提高.     

Work values in relation to gender and forecasted career patterns for women

This study examined the problem of life-style and career patterns for women. College students (367 males, 332 females) expressed their preferences for one of three career patterns for women combining work and family involvement and also answered a work values questionnaire. Results showed that 70.5% of the subjects expected women to attend school and/or work outside the home first and to have their child(ren) only after they have established themselves in a career. Forecasting of career patterns for women was significantly related to subjects' work values. Results confirmed previous findings and also indicated new trends in work values that differentiate between male and female college students.Université de MontréalUniversité du Québec à Trois-Rivières     

Moving beyond women's career choices: Factors associated with career continuity among female former art students

Thanks to Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi and Jacob Getzels at the University of Chicago for their guidance during the dissertation process and for the use of Artist's Study data.     

五年制高职护生职业成熟度发展趋势研究

【目的】比较不同年级五年制高职护生的职业成熟度有无差异,为进行针对性职业辅导提供依据。【方法】主要采用高职生职业成熟度量表对我校1250名学生进行调查。结果:发现高职护生职业成熟度总体处于中等水平(3.25±0.74),其中职业价值维度远低于低于中等水平(2.48±0.81);不同年级职业成熟度各维度上均存在差异(P<0.05),整个发展趋势呈"U"型曲线。【结论】应针对不同年级护生职业成熟度特点,进行相应的职业辅导,以提高职业适应力。     

Effect of women science career role models on early adolescents' attitudes toward scientists and women in science

In order to change the attitude of early adolescent female and male students toward scientists and women in science, students in the middle school/junior high grades were exposed over a two months' period to women science career role models as part of their science instruction. This treatment positively affected the students' attitude toward scientists and toward women in science. It is suggested that teachers of science in the middle school/junior high should periodically bring community resource people who use science in their careers to the classroom to act as role models and that women should be included among this group so that the attitudes of both male and female students toward scientists and women in science might be improved.     

Sex Differences among High School Seniors

Abstract

Objective timed tests are an integral part of the University of Utah’s admissions and placement testing. The purpose of this study was to further investigate Yates’ findings of the effect of time limits on results obtained from such tests. The sample consisted of seventy freshman students who had been identified, on the basis of scores obtained on the Cooperative English Expression Test, as lacking the English skills necessary for satisfactory university work and had been assigned therefore to a remedial English class. Alternate forms of the same test were administered to these students during the first class meeting and at the conclusion of the 10-week course. The effect of additional time produced results of the same magnitude as the remedial English course. It was also noted that if scores obtained with extended time limits had been used for placement rather than scores obtained by students on the entrance battery, 41 percent of the sample would not have been placed in remedial English. Implications for such findings in university admissions and placement are discussed.     

Patterns of motivation among adolescents with biased and accurate self-efficacy beliefs

The motivational pattern of adolescents with biased and accurate self-efficacy beliefs in language and/or in math was examined in the current study. A sample of 6119 adolescents completed self-report questionnaires measuring self-efficacy beliefs for language and math, their interest in each subject, persistence, achievement goal orientations, and social goals. Data analyses indicated that (a) underestimation of one's performance, even in regard to a single school subject, was associated to costs and no benefits, (b) accurate or realistic self-appraisals were associated to benefits and no costs, and (c) overestimation of one's performance was more likely to be associated with more costs but not necessarily fewer benefits than realistic self-beliefs. Gender differences were also found.