The Career Development Quarterly
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CDQ publishes empirical and theoretical articles about career development and career intervention across the lifespan. Articles published in CDQ aim to expand knowledge about career development, career counseling, work, leisure, career education, and coaching and management.
The Career Development Quarterly
1d ago
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This study examined the clinical effects of career counseling on psychological distress and the role of counselor adherence, working alliance, and client neuroticism in predicting these effects. The 239 participants received an average of 7.81 sessions at a university career counseling center. Among clients with a clinical level of psychological distress (n = 179) at the study's inception, 55.87% recovered, 22.35% improved, 19.55% experienced no change, and 2.23% saw an aggravation of their psychological distress. Results showed that a higher level of counselor adherence to ..read more
The Career Development Quarterly
2w ago
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This article reports on the measurement properties of the Vietnamese versions of the Career Education and Development Scale-Senior and the Career Education and Development Scale-Tertiary. The International Labour Organization Vietnam facilitated collection of data from students in high schools (N = 1463) and universities (N = 645) who completed these new measures along with comparator measures of self-efficacy and career-related beliefs, and expectations. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed an eight-factor model equivalent for high school and university students ..read more
The Career Development Quarterly
2w ago
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Epilepsy is a neurological disorder experienced as seizures, which can occur at intermittent times along a continuum of severity. Currently, there is a need for scholarship exploring how epilepsy impacts career development. This reflective lifeworld phenomenological study examined, ‘‘How is career development experienced in individuals living with epilepsy? Eight participants were interviewed to explore the intersubjective contextual experience of the phenomenon. The resulting structural essence, running on ice in the midst of the fog, contains four constituents: existence of epilepsy ..read more
The Career Development Quarterly
3w ago
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Within the larger framework of career construction theory, the present study investigated how future time perspective is related to career adaptability and whether grit may play a mediating role in this relationship. A sample of 483 university students (Mage = 20.03, 92.3% women) filled in scales measuring future time perspective dimensions (i.e., connectedness, value, extension, and speed), grit, and career adaptability comprised in an online survey. Findings showed that career adaptability was positively associated with connectedness and extension, and negatively associate ..read more
The Career Development Quarterly
1M ago
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Fostering occupational knowledge during early childhood could help build a foundation for more sophisticated future knowledge of the world of work. Thus, we developed and initially evaluated the effectiveness of a career education program designed to promote occupational knowledge of kindergarten children. Participants were 133 Italian kindergarten children with a mean age of 4.62 years (SD = 0.47) who were randomly assigned to an experimental or control group. Results indicated that, compared to the control group, the experimental group experienced a significantly greater o ..read more
The Career Development Quarterly
1M ago
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The Career Development Quarterly
1M ago
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This paper presents psychology of working theory (PWT) as a framework for addressing career concerns faced by those with chronic health issues. PWT is a relevant framework for contextualizing the lived experiences of clients navigating work and chronic illness. Specifically, individuals with chronic health conditions may face additional barriers to their career development and are at risk for higher incidences of workplace discrimination, job stress, and job loss. Core elements of PWT outlined in this paper are applied to a case study of a client with breast cancer. More specifically ..read more
The Career Development Quarterly
2M ago
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This study focused on examining counseling trainees’ perceptions of meaningful work as a resilience factor against decreased career choice satisfaction, which is related to burnout experience. As a result of latent moderated structural equation modeling, academic burnout and meaningful work were significantly related to career choice satisfaction. Furthermore, meaningful work significantly buffered the negative relationship between academic burnout and career choice satisfaction. Our findings suggest that meaningful work plays both compensatory and protective roles against the negativ ..read more
The Career Development Quarterly
2M ago
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In recent years, career development scholars and practitioners are increasingly interested in the concept of career calling. However, the psychological mechanisms underlying the process of its discernment remain obscure, and intervention research is scarce. In this study, we implemented a quasi-experimental pretest–posttest design with intervention (n = 42) and control group (n = 66) to test a 9-week elective course designed to help college students find their callings. The course included an investigation of strengths, values, and interests, followed by their integration into persona ..read more
The Career Development Quarterly
4M ago
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The procedures developed by Gati and colleagues to interpret scores in the Career Decision Difficulties Questionnaire were implemented to examine difficulties’ profiles among self-identified decided college students who reported being either comfortable or uncomfortable with their career choice. Of the 583 participants, 92.5% were career decided and 7.5% were undecided. Close to half (47.2%) of the career-decided students self-identified as uncomfortable with their career choice and reported similar career decision-making difficulties as their undecided peers. The most salient difficu ..read more