Individual Variations Within the Vocational Decision Making Process: A Review and Integration

Walsh, Donna J.

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“…It was also claimed that there are relations between vocational maturity (Crites, 1973) and career difficulties. Moreover, it may be useful to study the relationships among career indecision and indecisiveness (Osipow et al, 1976; Sampson, Peterson, Lenz, Reardon, & Saunders, 1996; Chartrand & Nutter, 1996), career decision-making self-efficacy (Taylor & Betz, 1983), vocational decision-making styles (Walsh, 1987), and self-esteem (Rosenberg, 1965) in determining the career difficulties of the individual. Specifically, it is recommended that the relationships between these variables and career decision-making difficulties be studied in the Turkish culture in further research.…”

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Testing the Validity of the Emotional and Personality-Related Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire in Turkish Culture

Öztemel

2012

Journal of Career Development

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The goal of this study was to examine the emotional and personality-related career decision-making difficulties of high school students in Turkish culture, using the model proposed by Saka and Gati. A sample of 523 high school students filled out the Turkish version of the Emotional and Personality-Related Aspects of Career Decision-Making Difficulties (EPCD) questionnaire. Cluster and confirmatory factor analyses supported the ternary classification system of the emotional and personality-related career decision-making difficulties model and questionnaire, thus providing evidence for the cross-cultural validity of the proposed model. Furthermore, the results demonstrated significant associations between making a decision and the emotional and personality career difficulties: students who were decided reported lower emotional and personality-related career difficulties than did undecided students. Generally, there were no differences in EPCD scores between boys and girls, and no effect of type of school and grade was observed.

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Testing the Validity of the Emotional and Personality-Related Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire in Turkish Culture

Öztemel

2012

Journal of Career Development

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“…This can be achieved through longitudinal studies comparing undecided and indecisive individuals, who differ in behavioral characteristics such as postponing one's choice for long periods, changing majors many times, or returning to personal counseling several times. Future research should also focus on validating the EPCD with additional instruments that measure indecision (e.g., the CDS, Osipow et al, 1976; the CTI, Sampson et al, 1996;and the CFI, Chartrand & Nutter, 1996) and other general emotional and personality characteristics as well as career-specific measures, such as career-decision-making self-efficacy (Taylor & Betz, 1983), career commitment anxiety (Serling & Betz, 1990), and vocational-decision-making style (Walsh, 1987). Finally, future research should aim at developing and testing specific interventions for the various categories of difficulties found in this study and providing counselors with guidelines for helping their clients overcome these difficulties.…”

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Emotional and Personality-Related Aspects of Career-Decision-Making Difficulties

Saka

Gati

Kelly

2008

Journal of Career Assessment

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This research focuses on developing a theoretical framework for analyzing the emotional and personality-related aspects of career-decision-making difficulties. The proposed model is comprised of three major clusters: pessimistic views, anxiety, and self-concept and identity. In Study 1, the Emotional and Personality Career Difficulties Scale (EPCD) was developed, refined, and used to empirically test the model with an Israeli Internet sample (N = 728). Study 2 (N = 276) provided evidence for the cross-cultural validity of the proposed model, using an American college student sample. The relations between the cognitive and emotional components of career-decision-making difficulties are discussed, and theoretical, research, and counseling implications are explored.

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“…The applicability of Rotter's expectancy for control construct to the careers context has been indicated (Friedrich, 1985(Friedrich, , 1987(Friedrich, , 1988Gable, Thompson, & Glanstein, 1976;Greenhaus & Sklarew, 1981;Hesketh, 1982;Kishnor, 1981;McIntire, Drummond, & Ryan, 1978;Plumly & Oliver, 1987;Thornton, 1978;Trice, 1990;Trice, Haire, & Elliott, 1989;Walsh, 1987). However, not all findings have presented strong relationships between generalized locus of control and career-related constructs (e.g., Bernadelli, De Stefano, & Dumont, 1983;Stumpf & Colarelli, 1992).…”

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The Development and Factor Structure of a Career Locus of Control Scale for Use With School Pupils

Millar

Shevlin

2007

Journal of Career Development

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This article describes the development and psychometric assessment of a multidimensional, domain-specific Career Locus of Control Scale (CLOC) designed for use with adolescent school pupils engaged in the career development and decision-making process. A 47-item version was administered to 743 school pupils, age 15 or 16 years evenly split between males and females (54% male). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to develop a 20-item scale that represented expectations related to Internality, Luck, Helplessness, and Powerful Others. Estimates of internal reliability of the subscales were high, and scale scores correlated significantly with measures of generalized locus of control and career decision self-efficacy. Overall, the CLOC scale demonstrated promising psychometric properties such that further research appears warranted and required.

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Individual Variations Within the Vocational Decision Making Process: A Review and Integration

Cited by 14 publications

References 26 publications

Testing the Validity of the Emotional and Personality-Related Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire in Turkish Culture

Testing the Validity of the Emotional and Personality-Related Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire in Turkish Culture

Emotional and Personality-Related Aspects of Career-Decision-Making Difficulties

The Development and Factor Structure of a Career Locus of Control Scale for Use With School Pupils

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