This study examined the mediating role of dysfunctional career thoughts in the relationship between career decision self-efficacy (CDSE) and vocational identity (VI). For this purpose, the data were collected from 446 Korean college students. The authors used the Hayes (2013) PROCESS tool to analyze the data. The results showed that CDSE positively correlated with VI, whereas all 3 types of dysfunctional career thoughts negatively correlated with CDSE and VI. The results also indicated that all 3 subscales of dysfunctional career thoughts partially mediate the association between CDSE and VI. We provide implications and limitations of the findings.

At a large midwestern university, 210 Asian international students responded to measures of acculturative stress, attachment (father, mother, and professor), and college adjustment. Multiple regression analysis revealed that secure professor attachment was critical for academic integration, academic performance, and possibly social integration. Acculturative stress had a negative impact on academic and social integration, but did not predict academic performance. Mother attachment promoted academic integration in cases of high acculturative stress, but father attachment had the opposite effect. In light of these findings, student affairs staff and counselors should consider the creation of faculty programs for the mentoring of Asian international students. (35 ref)-Department of Psychology, Illinois State University.

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The purposes of this study are (a) to explore how people with disabilities (PWD) experience differences in their quality of life (QOL) over the course of their lives, (b) to examine the effect of employment on QOL, and (c) to investigate the impact of age on overall QOL for PWD both inter-and intra-individually. To address these aims, this study used the data set for the Panel Survey of Employment for the Disabled (PSED) collected by the Korean Employment Agency for the Disabled (KEAD). The target populations of the study were 5,092 registered persons with disability. No longitudinal approach to examine the impact of employment and age on QOL for individuals with disabilities has been considered in the previous literature. Thus, multilevel modeling was used to examine the relationship between employment, age, and QOL for PWD. Results of this study indicated that employment status and age were significant predictors of QOL among PWD. These findings call attention for the need to consider the impact of employment and age on QOL of PWD both inter-and intra-individually.

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