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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"vocational psychology"”.
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Job Satisfaction in One Non-Direct Patient Care Setting
… Work Adjustment developed by the Department of Vocational Psychology Research at the University of Minnesota. This theory was found to be congruent with Rogers' Theoretical Basis of Nursing. Individually, 87 percent of the nurses indicated a low level of job satisfaction. As a group, they …
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Fostering Organizational Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Examination of Physical and Attitudinal Correlates in Worksite Health Promotion
… from a variety of disciplines including health psychology, vocational psychology, occupational health, and positive psychology. Using a pretest-posttest design, employees completed measures of job satisfaction, career optimism, perceived stress, optimism, absenteeism, and Presenteeism (on the …
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Collaborating with Black first-generation African youth for local career interventions
… (BLS, 2018, Gould, 2020). Many researchers in vocational psychology have looked at the career journeys of marginalized individuals (e.g., Duffy, Blustein, Diemer, & Autin, 2016; Fouad & Kantamneni, 2013; Gottfredson, 1996; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994, 2000). The purpose of this study is to …
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A pictorial version of the RIASEC scales of the Personal Globe Inventory
… of six work personalities has become a staple of vocational psychology, providing a robust and simple model for understanding the structure of vocational interests. Though Holland's types provide a common vocabulary for vocational psychologists working with a variety of populations, until this …
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Personality type and perception of the work environment in career paramedics
… One of the earliest and most durable theories of vocational psychology holds that an individual's personality predisposes him or her to be better suited to some occupations than others. According to trait factor theory, if people are matched with the "right" occupations, high levels of …
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Predicting the STEM Outcomes of Academically Qualified Women: A Longitudinal Examination of Social Cognitive Career Theory
… than answers. This study drew primarily from the vocational psychology literature, particularly Social Cognitive Career Theory, building on previous literature in this area by examining differences in career choices made over time by qualified women across different stages in the …
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Career Stories: Applying narrative approaches to guidance in a national employment service context.
… p. xi). Richardson et al., (2005) in redefining vocational psychology for the modern era, incorporated in their definition a commitment to ‘the importance of work and relationships in people’s lives, to helping people live healthy and productive lives, and to social justice’ (p. 59); and it is …
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Building Careers That Bounce Back: A New Measure of Career Resilience (SYCRA Scale/Systems-Based Career Resilience Assessment) for Working Adults in U.S.
… career development. Keywords: career resilience, vocational psychology, Systems Theory Framework, scale development, scoping review
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The Occupational Engagement Scale for Employed Adults - Revised (OES-EA-R): Further validation and correlations with personality and Holland code type
… p. 325). While numerous scholars in the field of vocational psychology have developed models of career exploration or career development, there has never been a cohesive melding of these well-developed, yet individualized entities, despite recognition of the need. In such an attempt, Krieshok, …
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Career counseling and career courses: process, impact and outcomes
The current study seeks to build on to the existing literature on career interventions by empirically examining possible outcomes of two of the most widely utilized career interventions, career counseling and career courses. This investigation used Critical Ingredients (Brown & Ryan Krane, 2000; …
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Why do White men ride the glass escalator?
Women face barriers to advancement in male-dominated fields (Glass Ceiling) and in female-dominated fields (Glass Escalator). More research is needed to elucidate the causes of these barriers in order to reduce the negative effects on women’s advancement. This study attempted to broaden the …
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Initial Validation of the Work and Human Needs Inventory
Recent theoretical approaches, such the Psychology of Working perspective (Blustein, 2006; Duffy, Blustein, Diemer, & Autin, 2016), have emphasized social stratification and social justice, and quantitative assessments of these constructs are needed. The current study examines the development and …
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Assessing Career Decision-Making Status: The CASVE Cycle Questionnaire
… the CASVE-CQ and the identity subscale of the My Vocational Situation (MVS; Holland, Daiger, & Power, 1980), Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ; Gati, Krausz, & Osipow, 1996), Career Commitment Measure (CCM; Carson & Bedeian, 1994), and the Career Thoughts Inventory (CTI; …
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The Effect of Rational and Intuitive Decision-Making Strategies on the Quality of Interest Forecasts
The world of work has changed. To keep up, vocational psychologists have adopted a greater emphasis on career adaptability, which relies on possessing transferable skills that will remain useful regardless of job context. Adaptable clients successfully translate idiosyncratic interests into …
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The Impact of a Narrative Informed Intervention on Career Decision Self-Efficacy and Occupational Engagement
This study investigates the contribution of the narrative approach to career counseling that addresses the changing nature of work facing those seeking career services. To analyze this, 84 students in a career exploration course were divided between those who received the treatment as it had been …