International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance最新文献

The Career Indecision Profile-65 items (CIP-65) is an instrument with four empirically validated dimensions of career indecision: Neuroticism/Negative Affect (NNA), Choice/Commitment Anxiety (CCA), Lack of Readiness (LR), and Interpersonal Conflicts (IC). The aim of this study is to adapt and validate the CIP-65 for the Portuguese population. On the basis of a sample of students (n = 442), the results demonstrate the presence of the four theoretically proposed factors. Thus, this study evidence suggests that the CIP-65 is a measure of career indecision with cross-cultural validity, and it can be utilized in the assessment of difficulties in the decision-making of young Portuguese people.

This study investigated the relationship between protean career orientation and career decidedness and the mediating roles of career adaptability and career decision self-efficacy in a sample of Iranian agriculture university students (N = 210). The results indicated that protean career orientation was positively related to career adaptability and career decision self-efficacy. The results also revealed that career decision self-efficacy played a mediating role in the relationship between protean career orientation and career decidedness, whereas no such mediation effect was observed for career adaptability. Additionally, career adaptability and career decision-making self-efficacy sequentially mediated the association between protean career orientation and career decidedness.

In this study, the relationship between prolonged grief and career adaptability was examined. Specifically, it was predicted that the relationship would be mediated by meaning making and coping styles. The total sample consisted of 120 university students who have experienced at least one death of significant others that happened more than 6 months ago. Results showed that the direct paths between prolonged grief and career adaptability were insignificant, but through meaning making’s mediation, the indirect paths were all significant. The findings indicate that prolonged grief can affect career development. Therefore, there is a need for counselors to promote meaning making and the use of problem-focused coping to support the career development of individuals with prolonged grief symptoms.

This study sought to generate new validity evidence for the Brazilian version of decent work scale (DWS) and assess its predictive aspects on income, work well-being, and burnout. The sample consisted of 849 adult workers, and the study results showed positive psychometric evidence for DWS, accompanied by indications of measurement invariance. Finally, decent work was a positive predictor of income, satisfaction, and engagement at work and a negative predictor of burnout, in addition to establishing a mediating role between career adaptability and such variables. The importance of promoting decent work among women and people with low income to improve their personal and professional lives is discussed.

Recently, career practitioners have been encouraged to help clients make career choices that are both environmentally and socially sustainable. However, to date, the career difficulties associated with this “green guidance” process have not been delineated. On the basis of the career development obstacles identified in the relevant literature, this article introduces a nonexhaustive typology of issues specific to the consideration of ecological and human factors in the context of career counseling. For each category of difficulty, examples are provided and practical suggestions are proposed. The contributions and limitations of this exercise are discussed, especially regarding its clarification of the role of career practitioners in promoting sustainability.

This study aims to explore the relationships among career-specific parental behaviors, job calling, and career planning of senior clinical medical students. The study’s results confirmed that parental career support was positively related to job calling and career planning. On the contrary, parental career interference and lack of engagement were negatively associated with job calling and career planning. Furthermore, job calling was confirmed to mediate the relationship between career-specific parental behaviors and career planning. These findings offer valuable insights that can inform medical students’ career behaviors and contribute to effective career guidance practices.

Students in higher education modify their behaviour and environment to align with their study goals and achievements. This proactive process is referred as study crafting, which includes the physical and cognitive changes students make to the task, cognitive, emotional, and relational aspects of their study. This study developed and validated an inventory to measure students’ study crafting behaviours in higher education. The 16-item multifactorial Study Crafting Inventory was devised and tested for its factorial structure and reliability using two samples split from one larger sample (EFA, Sample A = 308; CFA, Sample B = 272). The Inventory assesses four crafting dimensions of managing challenging demands, social demands, structural resources, and social resources. Sound reliability was found with αs of .87, .87, .84, .85, respectively, for the four subscales and .89 overall. Support for construct validity was demonstrated, with scores on the Inventory associated positively with proactivity, growth mindset, and academic grit. This new measure can be used to progress research into how students manage their demands and resources while in higher education.

Lindo and Ceballos combined the Career Construction Interview (CCI) with expressive arts school-based group counseling to create a developmentally appropriate intervention, called the Child and Adolescent Career Construction Interview (CACCI). This study examined 24 preadolescent girls’ perceptions of participating in an eight-week CACCI expressive arts group. Analysis of data yielded four major themes: (a) experiencing, (b) connecting, (c) expressing, and (d) becoming. Findings from this study have the potential to inform developmentally appropriate career counseling for preadolescents.

The present study investigates the role of promotion in employees’ happiness (job satisfaction), health (work stress), and career-related performance (perceived employability and career prospects). Positive and negative changes in the above-mentioned career sustainability indicators were investigated over a 2-year period. The promotion subsample (n = 128) was compared with a matched sample of non-promoted employees (n = 150). We also tested the role of gender in responding to a promotion. The findings suggest that the promotion may have equivocal effects on employees’ happiness, health, and career-related performance over time, and therefore does not foster their career sustainability.