Validity Of The Career Factors Inventory
construct; decidedness; decision scale; dimensions; indecision; Psychology; validation
The present study examined the construct and concurrent validity of the Career Factors Inventory (CFI; Chartrand, Robbins, and Morrill, 1989). The CFI, along with the Career Choice Status Inventory (Savickas, 1993), the Vocational Identity Scale (VIS; Holland, Daiger, and Power, 1980), and the Career Development Inventory-Adult Form II (CDI-A; Super, Zelkowitz, and Thompson, 1975), were completed by 227 college students. Strong support for the CFI's construct validity was provided by a principal components analysis showing four components that paralleled the four scales in the inventory and correlations in the expected direction with age and year in school. Evidence in support of the CFI's concurrent validity was provided by correlations in the expected direction with career decidedness, vocational identity, and career development.
Lewis D M; Savickas M L
Journal of Career Assessment
1995
1995
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/106907279500300104" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/106907279500300104</a>
Appraising Birth Order In Career Assessment: Linkages To Holland's And Super's Models
Adlerian vocational theory; birth order; career assessment; family; interests; Psychology; vocational; work; work values
Adlerian vocational theory proposes that birth order, or psychological position in the family of origin, significantly influences vocational behavior. If so, appraising birth order position may be useful in a career assessment context to enrich an understanding of an individual's occupational interests, values, and vocational personality style. Two exploratory studies examined this potentiality. In Study 1, analysis of variance results indicated significant differences in vocational personality type, occupational interests, and values among three birth-order groups derived from a medical student sample (N = 159). Significant differences in occupational interests among birth-order groups also emerged in Study 2 which used a college student sample (N = 119). Combined, results of the present research lend support to the Adlerian theoretical assertion that birth order determines vocational personality, occupational interest, and values patterns. Birth order represents a salient and viable variable to consider in career assessment and counseling contexts as well as to examine in future research.
Leong F T L; Hartung P J; Goh D; Gaylor M
Journal of Career Assessment
2001
2001
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/106907270100900102" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/106907270100900102</a>
Cross-cultural Career Assessment: Review And Prospects For The New Millennium
acculturation; american-college-students; asian-american; attitudes; black-students; career assessment; career assessment literature reviews; cross-cultural career assessment; multicultural career assessment; multicultural career development; Psychology; racial identity; states; validity; vocational interests
A distinct body of research literature reflects work initiated in the last decade of the 20th century to examine issues in the development and use of career assessment instruments across cultures. The authors review this literature to integrate current understandings of career assessment in cultural context and to identify potentially fruitful avenues for future inquiry. The theoretical framework of cultural validity and cultural specificity developed by Leong and Brown was used to guide the current review. Based on this framework, the review focuses on literature dealing with (a) the cultural validity of career assessment instruments for use cross-culturally with racial and ethnic minority populations, (b) the extent to which culture-specific variables may influence the career assessment process, and (c) the construction and validation of new culture-specific career assessment measures. Most research contained within the review pertains to cultural validity with much less attention given in the current literature on new test construction and cultural specificity. The authors conclude their review with a summary of findings and implications for research and practice in career assessment. Surveying leading scholars in the fields of career development and vocational psychology could elaborate our understanding of career assessment in cultural context and determine empirically its prospects for advancement and refinement.
Leong F T L; Hartung P J
Journal of Career Assessment
2000
2000
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/106907270000800408" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/106907270000800408</a>
Career Assessment With Culturally Different Clients: Proposing An Integrative-sequential Conceptual Framework For Cross-cultural Career Counseling Research And Practice
asian-americans; Psychology
In response to the need for theoretical models to guide counseling and conceptualize career assessment with culturally different clients, the authors propose an integrative-sequential conceptual model for cross-cultural career counseling research and practice. This framework consists of five stages: (a) emergence of career and vocational problems, (b) help-seeking and career services utilization, (c) evaluation of career and vocational problems, (d) career interventions, and (e) outcomes of career interventions. This model may be useful in guiding both career psychology research and career assessment and interventions with culturally different clients.
Leong F T L; Hartung P
Journal of Career Assessment
1997
1997
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/106907279700500205" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/106907279700500205</a>
Career Construction And Subjective Well-being
career assessment; career construction; career intervention; narrative career counseling; Psychology; self; subjective well-being; traits; true
Experienced happiness and reported life contentment represent cardinal elements of subjective well-being (SWB). Achieving happiness and contentment with work and other domains, such as love, play, and community, constitute fundamental life goals. Career construction offers a developmental theory of vocational behavior and a career assessment and counseling model counselors can use to promote client SWB. As an intervention model, career construction assists individuals with using work to foster self-completion and derive meaning, satisfaction, and happiness as they design their lives. Career construction counseling promotes SWB because its aims are consistent with increasing both immediate life satisfaction and overall life contentment. The present analysis describes the basic principles and practice of career construction and explains the career style interview as an assessment and counseling method useful for assisting individuals to identify and pursue self-selected goals and projects, endeavors that contribute to SWB.
Hartung P J; Taber B J
Journal of Career Assessment
2008
2008-02
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/1069072707305772" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/1069072707305772</a>
My Career Story: Description And Initial Validity Evidence
career; Career construction counseling; career construction theory; career intervention; career planning; decision-making; latent semantic analysis; life design; life design; my career; narrative career counseling; Psychology; story
My career story (MCS) comprises a self-guided autobiographical workbook designed to simulate career construction counseling. The MCS contains a series of questions from the Career Construction Interview to elicit a life-career story and reveal a life theme that are then related to a current career problem indicated by the workbook user. Reflecting on the answers to the questions aims to promote key life-design goals of adaptability, narratability, intentionality, and action. After describing its development and use, a case illustration and initial preliminary validity study of the MCS is presented. Latent semantic analysis, a method for determining meaning similarity of words and passages within bodies of text, indicated a mean agreement level of .81 between MCS life portraits constructed by participants (N =10) and those constructed for the participants by experts in career construction counseling. The MCS shows some initial promise for self-guided career intervention to increase self-reflection and ability to tell and enact one's career story. Future research is needed to support the validity of the MCS workbook.
Hartung P J; Santilli S
Journal of Career Assessment
2018
2018-05
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/1069072717692980" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/1069072717692980</a>
Refinement And Further Validation Of The Decisional Process Inventory
career factors inventory; indecision; Psychology
Research to initially construct and evaluate the Decisional Process Inventory (DPI; Hartung, 1994) revealed its potential use for assessing progress and problems in career decision making (Hartung, 1995). Advancing this preliminary area of instrument research and development, we report on a study that evaluated a revised version of the measure, the DPI-R. Results from a sample of 183 undergraduate college students (82 women, 101 men) supported the DPI-R item content validity, scale construct validity, and concurrent validity. Factor analysis yielded three factors relating to contact and resistance processes described in a Gestalt model of career decision making and career indecision. Future research with the DPI-R should focus on refining the measure to maximally assess these three latent dimensions of the Gestalt Career Decision-Making Cycle. Ultimately, the DPI-R may contribute unique data for career assessment and counseling practice focused on resolving career indecision.
Hartung P J; Marco C D
Journal of Career Assessment
1998
1998
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/106907279800600203" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/106907279800600203</a>
Family Interaction Patterns And College Student Career Development
adaptability; aspirations; career; circumplex model; construct; decision-making; development; dynamics; Holland's theory; indecision; life-role salience; parental attachment; Psychology; Super's theory; systems perspective; vocational identity; work and family
We examined whether and how family interaction patterns relate to role salience and vocational identity in a predominantly Anglo-American college student sample (107 women, 65 men). Results indicated significant links between perceived emotional closeness and structural flexibility in the family-of-origin and higher levels of participation in, commitment to, and value expectations for home and family roles. Levels of work-role salience and vocational identity were not significantly related to family-of-origin interaction patterns. Appraising and attending to family-of-origin dynamics may be useful career assessment and counseling that involves helping clients understand and fit family into their life-careers. Ultimately, determining with more certainty the precise degree of transportability of the family circumplex model to the vocational domain will require continued research ill this vein.
Hartung P J; Lewis D M; May K; Niles S G
Journal of Career Assessment
2002
2002-02
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/1069072702010001005" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/1069072702010001005</a>
Individualism-collectivism Links To Occupational Plans And Work Values
acculturation; americans; attitudes; career; career decision making; career-development; choice; culture; ethnic-minorities; identity; individualism-collectivism; multicultural career assessment; occupational plans; personality; Psychology; Psychology; vocational behavior; work values
Individualism-collectivism (IC) constitutes a cultural variable thought to influence a wide variety of variables including career planning and decision making. To examine this possibility, college students (216 women, 106 men, 64% racial-ethnic minorities) responded to measures of IC, occupational plans, and work values. Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) results indicated significant main effects for gender and race. Men, more so than women, endorsed vertical individualism (VI)-a cultural pattern characterized by independence and dominance- and intrinsic work values. African Americans expressed more fit of their occupational plans with personal goals and endorsed extrinsic work values more than did European Americans. A hypothesized inverse relationship between collectivism and consistency of occupational plans with personal goals was not supported. Hypothesized positive relationships between collectivism and work values stressing relationship and interdependence were supported, whereas expected inverse relationships between collectivism and work values emphasizing independence and personal gain were not supported. Findings are discussed in terms of acculturation issues, career assessment implications, and future research directions.
Hartung P J; Fouad N A; Leong F T L; Hardin E E
Journal of Career Assessment
2010
2010-02
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/1069072709340526" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/1069072709340526</a>
Toward Integrated Career Assessment: Using Story To Appraise Career Dispositions And Adaptability
career; career adaptability; career assessment; career construction; constructivist career assessment; development; Interest Inventory; Psychology; RIASEC type; Strong; Thematic Apperception Test; theory; vocational interests; vocational psychology/
This study examined the validity of using stories to appraise career dispositions and problems associated with career adaptability. Premedical students (63 women, 37 men) wrote narratives about Thematic Apperception Test cards (TAT) and responded to the Strong Interest Inventory (SII). Independent raters identified identical career adaptability dimensions from TAT stories more than 47% of the time. RIASEC codes derived from TAT responses matched measured codes on at least one theme 82% of the time. Results provided modest support for the reliability of using TAT card responses to derive a RIASEC personality type consistent with measured vocational interests. Further study to increase interrater reliability and hone the scoring scheme for deriving RIASEC codes might bolster the validity of using story to assess vocational personality dispositions and career problems. Ultimately, constructivist approaches could augment differential methods for appraising and fostering career exploration and choice in an integrated career assessment and counseling approach.
Hartung P J; Borges N J
Journal of Career Assessment
2005
2005-11
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/1069072705277923" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/1069072705277923</a>
Rates And Correlates Of Career Development
maturity; Psychology; students; work
Readiness for making educational and vocational choices plays a crucial role in career decision-making (Super, 1955). The present study examined (a) personality and role correlates of career choice readiness and (b) rates of change in career choice readiness measured twice over a 1-year period. A cohort of 64 high school students (28 girls, 36 boys) completed the Career Development Inventory (CDI; Super, Thompson, Lindeman, Jordaan, & Myers, 1979), the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI; Holland, 1985a), and the Salience Inventory (SI; Super & Nevill, 1986) at the end of their freshman and sophomore years. Results supported hypothesized sex differences in CDI scores, with girls scoring higher than boys on three CDI scales. Hypothesized increases in CDI scores commensurate with grade level were not supported. Significant, albeit low to moderate, correlations between various CDI scale scores and scores on several VPI and SI scales partially supported hypothesized relationships between career development and personality and role salience.
Hartung P J
Journal of Career Assessment
1997
1997
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/106907279700500303" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/106907279700500303</a>
Developing A Theory-based Measure Of Career Decision-making - The Decisional Process Inventory
college-students; Psychology; validation; vocational indecision
The present study describes the development and an initial assessment of the psychometric properties of the Decisional Process Inventory (DPI). The DPI served as an empirical test of Gestalt therapy homeostasis theory for conceptualizing and facilitating career development and decision-making. The inventory is intended to assess career decidedness or individual level of progress toward reaching a career-decided state. The DPI consists of 70 items that address respondents' perceptions and experiences of the career decision-making process. Participants responded to the DPI (n = 248), the Career Decision Scale (CDS; Osipow, Carney, Winer, Yanico, and Koschier, 1976) (n = 242), the Occupational Alternatives Question (OAQ; Zener and Schnuelle, 1976) (n = 244), and the Gestalt Contact Styles Questionnaire-Revised (GSCQ-R; Woldt & Kepner, 1986) (n = 243). Results supported the content validity of the items and criterion-related validity of the inventory. Seven factors related to the career decision-making process are described.
Hartung P J
Journal of Career Assessment
1995
1995
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/106907279500300404" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/106907279500300404</a>
Barrier Or Benefit? Emotion In Life-career Design
adjustment; affectivity; career construction; career decision making; challenges; college-students; decisional process inventory; emotion; intelligence; life designing; perspectives; Psychology; satisfaction; validity
Emotion permeates human life, yet receives little attention in career theory and intervention. Long seen as a barrier to avoid, recent conceptual and empirical work indicate that emotion benefits human behavior and development. Advances in the interdisciplinary science of emotion support examining the construct across differential, developmental, and social cognitive career traditions. The subjective, phenomenological, and socially constructed nature of emotion particularly suits career theory and intervention's increasing emphases on postmodernism, constructivism, and social constructionism; implicating emotion as of principal benefit to self-construction in work and other life domains. In this regard, emotion figures prominently in motivational processes related to early memory narratives within career construction counseling and the intentionality process of life-career design. Considering emotion in life-career design may help complement vocational psychology's long-standing foci on answering questions of what occupations people choose and how ready they are to choose them with addressing the question of why people move along particular life-career pathways.
Hartung P J
Journal of Career Assessment
2011
2011-08
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/1069072710395536" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/1069072710395536</a>
Vocopher: The Career Collaboratory
career assessment and career; Career development; counselor education; development; maturity; maturity or Assessment; Psychology
Glavin K W; Savickas M L
Journal of Career Assessment
2010
2010-11
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/1069072710374568" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/1069072710374568</a>
Personality, Vocational Interests, And Work Values Of Medical Students
career specialty choice; dissatisfaction; interests; Medical students; neo-pi-r; personality; physicians; Psychology; satisfaction; selection; Stability; traits; values
Duffy R D; Borges N J; Hartung P J
Journal of Career Assessment
2009
2009-05
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/1069072708329035" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/1069072708329035</a>
Revision Of The Career Maturity Inventory
Psychology
Crites J O; Savickas M L
Journal of Career Assessment
1996
1905-06
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/106907279600400202" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/106907279600400202</a>
Holland's theory applied to medical specialty choice
students; primary care; personality; Psychology; physicians; specialty choice; selection; Career Occupational Preference System Inventory; Holland types
The present study tested the hypothesis that medical specialties classified as technique oriented or patient oriented would be distinguished by RIASEC code, with technique-oriented specialists resembling Investigative-Realistic types and patient-oriented specialists resembling Investigative-Social types. Using longitudinal data obtained from 447 college students who aspired to become physicians, the authors found that the predominant RIASEC code was the same in both groups of specialties, namely, Investigative-Social. The data suggested that most medical students could fit equally well in several different medical specialties. Thus, they should use Holland's model to explore how well their personalities can be expressed in different specialties and practice environments, not use RIASEC codes to match themselves to particular specialties.
Borges N J; Savickas M L; Jones B J
Journal of Career Assessment
2004
2004-05
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/1069072703257755" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/1069072703257755</a>
Personality and medical specialty choice: A literature review and integration
personality; Psychology; physicians; performance; perspective; residents; specialty choice; indicator; 5-factor model; traits; myers-briggs type
This review examines the literature on personality and medical specialty choice. First, it describes studies categorized by medical specialties that to date have used the same measures: Adjective Check List, California Psychological Inventory, Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Then it integrates these results using the framework provided by the Five-Factor Model of personality. This model provides a method to organize the personality descriptors associated with medical specialties and to summarize information in ail understandable mid meaningful way. Conclusions drawn from the review Suggest 0 a loose association between a few personality factors and particular medical specialties. Recommendations for further research on personality and medical specialities encourage shifting from the "variable" to the "person" approach and studying how different personalities succeed in the same specialty.
Borges N J; Savickas M L
Journal of Career Assessment
2002
2002-08
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/10672702010003006" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/10672702010003006</a>
Career choice readiness moderates the effects of interest inventory interpretation
exploration; maturity; Psychology; students
Career development theory postulates that a client's career choice readiness influences the experience of an interest inventory. This study examined career choice readiness as it related to satisfaction with, retention of, and use of a videotaped interpretation of the Strong Interest Inventory (SII; Hansen & Campbell, 1985). Students (N = 186) from two urban midwestern universities participated in this study. Results indicated that two attitudinal factors of career choice readiness, namely attitudes toward career planning and attitudes toward career exploration, predicted how much and how well clients used their interest inventories. Career choice readiness did not predict immediate satisfaction with the inventory interpretation nor cognitive retention of the inventory results. The discussion of these findings emphasizes differential use of interest inventory results based on the client's degree of career choice readiness.
Toman S M; Savickas M L
Journal of Career Assessment
1997
1997
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/106907279700500302" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/106907279700500302</a>
Revision of the Career Maturity Inventory: The Adaptability Form
Career adaptability; Career Maturity Inventory; decision-making; Psychology; vocational development
Initially administered in 1961, the Career Maturity Inventory (CMI) was the first paper-and-pencil measure of vocational development. The present research revised the CMI to reestablish its usefulness as a succinct, reliable, and valid measure of career choice readiness, with a few theoretically relevant and practically useful content scales for diagnostic work with school populations up to and including Grade 12. The new Form C was produced by combining rational organization of item content with confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). In the end, CMI Form C provides a total score for career choice readiness, three scale scores reflecting career adaptability dimensions of concern, curiosity, and confidence, and a score reflecting relational style in forming occupational choices. Initial evidence supports the face, construct, and concurrent validity of the CMI scores as indicators of career choice readiness.
Savickas M L; Porfeli E J
Journal of Career Assessment
2011
2011-11
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/1069072711409342" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/1069072711409342</a>
The relation of career maturity to personality type and social adjustment
5-factor model; adaptability; adjustment; Career choice; career development; career maturity; Psychology; social; traits
Models of career maturity first formulated at midcentury, have been criticized for not incorporating innovations in personality and developmental psychology. This isolation from general models of and debates about personal maturity has kept career maturity from receiving widespread acceptance in mainstream psychology. The present Study investigated whether Super's model of career maturity could be linked to Cough's three-dimensional model of personality organization. To explore relations between the two structural models, 206 college students responded to Cough's California Psychological Inventory and Super's Career Development Inventory. Results showed that planful competence in career development related to greater realization of one's potential and a higher degree of social adjustment. Furthermore, the results indicated that more Mature attitudes toward career planning and exploration related to air adjustment style characterized by extroversion in interpersonal relationships and by a positive orientation to social norms.
Savickas M L; Briddick W C; Watkins C E
Journal of Career Assessment
2002
2002-02
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/1069072702010001002" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/1069072702010001002</a>
New Questions for Vocational Psychology: Premises, Paradigms, and Practices
adaptability; career; constructionism; employability; Psychology
The innovative responses of vocational psychology and career counseling to the important questions raised by people living in information societies will continue the disciplines' tradition of helping individuals link their lives to the economic context. The questions pertaining to perspectives, paradigms, and practices arise mainly from the increasing dominance of ''jobless work," which moves people from project to project and from one culture to another culture. These recurring transitions mean that individuals cannot maintain their employment, so they must maintain their employability and actively manage their careers through adaptability, intentionality, life-long learning, and autobiographical reasoning. The emerging practice of career counseling seems to take the general form of constructing career through small stories, deconstructing and reconstructing the small stories into a large story, and co-constructing intention and action to begin the next episode in that large story.
Savickas M L
Journal of Career Assessment
2011
2011-08
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/1069072710395532" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/1069072710395532</a>
EXAMINING THE PERSONAL MEANING OF INVENTORIED INTERESTS DURING CAREER COUNSELING
Psychology; vocational interests
The present article seeks to renovate the career counseling use of interest inventories as personality indicators by making explicit the link between inventoried interests and their personal meaning to clients. Interest denotes a relationship between the individual and the environment, one to the advantage of the individual. The chief advantage of an interest to the individual is that it cultivates a solution to a personal problem. Viewing interests as a developmental pathway encourages the interpretation of interest inventory results from a psychology of use. A focus on how the client uses an interest prompts counselors to trace a measured interest both backward to its origin in private preoccupations and forward to its expression in public occupations. Using interest inventories as personality indicators helps clients to conceptualize the impetus of their movement (needs), the direction of that movement (values), and the style of that movement (interests). Counseling that includes a coherent narration of the why, what, and how of an individual's movement in the world can clarify the client's occupational choices and enhance that client's ability to make career decisions.
Savickas M L
Journal of Career Assessment
1995
1995
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/106907279500300206" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/106907279500300206</a>
The career development inventory in review: Psychometric and research findings
choice; guidance; identity; model; Psychology; Self-Directed Search; students; validity; vocational maturity; work
First published over 15 years ago, the Career Development Inventory (CDI; Super, Thompson, Lindeman, Jordaan, & Myers, 1979) measures readiness for making educational and vocational choices and operationally defines Super's structural model of adolescent career maturity. The present article systematically analyzes the body of literature that has evaluated and explicated the psychometric characteristics and uses of the CDI. This review examines empirical findings pertinent to the reliability, factor structure, and validity of the CDI; evaluates the instrument's present status; and identifies topics for future research.
Savickas M L; Hartung P J
Journal of Career Assessment
1996
1996
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/106907279600400204" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/106907279600400204</a>
Construction of a Physician Skills Inventory
Holland typology; physicians; Psychology; scale development; skill assessment; specialty choice; students; transferable skills
The current study applied Holland's RIASEC typology to develop a Physician Skills Inventory. We identified the transferable skills and abilities that are critical to effective performance in medicine and had 140 physicians in 25 different specialties rate the importance of those skills. Principal component analysis of their responses produced three major components that aligned with the RIASEC code of Investigative-Realistic-Social (IRS) for physicians. The investigative type fit with problem-solving skills, the realistic type fit with psychomotor skills, and the social type fit with counseling skills. The Physician Skills Inventory may be used in helping medical students profile their skills for further development or remediation and for matching their skills to the requirements of different specialties.
Richard G V; Zarconi J; Savickas M L
Journal of Career Assessment
2012
2012-05
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/1069072711420981" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/1069072711420981</a>
Specific and Diversive Career Exploration During Late Adolescence
antecedents; behavior; career; college-students; confidence; decision-making process; diversive; employability; exploration; high-school-students; indecision; perspective; planning; Psychology; self-efficacy; specific; validation; Vocational identity
The exploration literature suggests that career exploration may be separated into two distinct forms. Diversive career exploration involves learning broadly about the world of work and the self, whereas specific career exploration involves an in-depth investigation focused on aligning one's perceptions of self and career prospects. The goal of the current study was to validate the structure of career exploration over time as being composed of diversive and specific forms. The study was conducted on a diverse sample of 308 college and work-bound youth, 19-22 years old, who were assessed annually three times. Structural equation modeling was used to test a longitudinal measurement model and the structural relationships corresponding to the noted distinction between the forms of exploration. Associations between exploration and several additional indicators of career development were further assessed. The results support the theoretically derived distinction between diversive and specific career exploration and demonstrate that they are differentially linked to career indecision, confidence, and planning. Implications for research and practice are offered in light of the results.
Porfeli E J; Skorikov V B
Journal of Career Assessment
2010
2010-02
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/1069072709340528" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/1069072709340528</a>
Psychometric Properties of a Career Exploratory Outcome Expectations Measure
adolescence; aspirations; career; career exploratory outcome expectations; Childhood career development; exploration; item response theory; outcome expectations; participation; perspective; Psychology; self-efficacy; social-cognitive model; students
Social cognitive career theory and research are advanced by increasing attention to career outcome expectations and by applying this theory earlier in the life span. This article offers the career exploratory outcome expectations construct as a means of applying the more general construct of career outcome expectations during the childhood period and introduces the psychometric characteristics of the Career Exploratory Outcome Expectations Scale (CEOES). Employing data from 446 fifth graders and item response theory (IRT), the CEOES presents a one-dimensional structure with a four-category Likert-type response scale. Favorable results of person- and item-separation reliability were found and the scale appears to perform equally well for both genders. The CEOES also demonstrated concurrent validity through positive associations with established self-efficacy measures. The CEOES constitutes a useful measure to study aspects of career outcome expectations in childhood, and psychometric findings affirm its use in the career assessment literature.
Oliveira I M; Taveira M D; Cadime I; Porfeli E J
Journal of Career Assessment
2016
2016-05
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/1069072715580577" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/1069072715580577</a>
A Test of the Career Construction Theory Model of Adaptation in Adult Workers With Chiari Malformation
abilities scale; adaptability; Career Adapt-Abilities Scale-Short Form; career adaptability; career construction theory; Chiari malformation; job; life; mediation; need satisfaction; personality; psychometric properties; self-regulation; students
October 2019 Update
The present study examined the career construction theory (CCT) model of adaptation using a sample of working adults diagnosed with Chiari malformation. Specifically, we tested a mediation model in which adaptivity (i.e., proactivity, openness, and conscientiousness) fosters adaptability, which conditions adapting (i.e., competence need satisfaction at work), which leads to adaptation (i.e., work well-being and subjective well-being). Results of structural equation modeling supported all of the hypothesized direct and indirect relations between CCT constructs, thus providing strong support for the applicability of the model of adaptation among workers with Chiari malformation. Prior to testing the model of adaptation, we examined and found support for the hypothesized hierarchical structure of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale-Short Form, a recently developed operationalization of career adaptability.
Tokar David M; Savickas Mark L; Kaut Kevin P
Journal of Career Assessment
2019
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