An Examination of Career Decision-making in the Context of Female Offenders

Female offenders often have had increased financial difficulties post-release because of lower levels of educational achievement and less job experience. Career programming may prove useful to female offenders by providing guidance with career decisions and strengthening career decision-making skills. The aims of this study were to investigate career decision-making skills and self-efficacy in the context of vocational programming for a group of female offenders. A pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design was used to examine scale scores for a group who participated in programming and a control group at the same correctional facility. A series oft tests revealed no significant differences between the control and intervention groups. An examination of the subscale means indicated that female offenders may advocate more passive decision-making styles and lower career decision-making self-efficacy than the original norm samples for these instruments.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2006

Author dc:creator

• Stone, Allison L.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Victoria A. Shivy

• career decision-making
• self-efficacy
• post-release
• Psychology
• Social and Behavioral Sciences

Statement dc:rights

• © The Author

Identifier

https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/973

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarscompass.vcu.edu:etd-1972