Journal•ISSN: 0889-4019
Career Development Quarterly
Wiley-Blackwell
About: Career Development Quarterly is an academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Career counseling & Career development. It has an ISSN identifier of 0889-4019. Over the lifetime, 1096 publications have been published receiving 40864 citations. The journal is also known as: CDQ.
Topics: Career counseling, Career development, Cognitive Information Processing, Vocational education, Career portfolio
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TL;DR: In this article, career adaptability is defined as a bridging construct to integrate the complexity engendered by viewing vocational behavior from four distinct vantage points: individual differences, development, self-and context.
Abstract: The four segments in the life-span, life-space approach to comprehending and intervening in careers (individual differences, development, self, and context), constitute four perspectives on adaptation to life roles. Adaptation serves as a bridging construct to integrate the complexity engendered by viewing vocational behavior from four distinct vantage points. To correspond to adaptation as the core construct, career adaptability should replace career maturity as the critical construct in the developmental perspective on adaptation. Moreover, adaptability could be conceptualized using developmental dimensions similar to those used to describe career maturity, namely planning, exploring, and deciding.
1,275 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that self-efficacy beliefs are the best predictor of career indecision, and outcome expectations are also the best predict of exploration intentions, when indecision was entered as a predictor, it also was a significant predictor of exploration intention.
Abstract: In this multiple regression model, self-efficacy beliefs are the best predictor of career indecision, and outcome expectations are the best predictor of exploration intentions. When indecision was entered as a predictor, it also was a significant predictor of exploration intentions—students who were less decided were also more likely to plan career exploration. Career efficacy and outcome expectations relate significantly more strongly within the group of college men than within the group of college women. Implications for social cognitive career theory and practice are discussed.
496 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a social cognitive framework for understanding career interest, choice, and performance processes is presented, which is intended as a base both for unifying existing career theories and for conceptualizing developmental and remedial career interventions.
Abstract: This article provides an overview of a social cognitive framework for understanding career interest, choice, and performance processes. Derived primarily from Bandura's (1986) general social cognitive theory, the framework features several variables (self-efficacy, outcome expectations, personal goals) through which people help to guide their own career development. It also includes a discussion of how these variables interrelate with other aspects of persons (e.g., gender) and their environments (e.g., supports, barriers) within the process of career development. The framework is intended as a base both for unifying existing career theories and for conceptualizing developmental and remedial career interventions.
449 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors extend social cognitive career theory by suggesting how several of its major hypotheses can be applied to counseling persons with career choice difficulties, and describe several theory-derived counseling strategies that can be used to assist clients in developing a broad array of career options, analyzing and overcoming barriers to career choice, and counteracting choice-limiting self-efficacy beliefs.
Abstract: This article extends social cognitive career theory by suggesting how several of its major hypotheses can be applied to counseling persons with career choice difficulties. Several theory-derived counseling strategies are described that can be used to assist clients in developing a broad array of career options, analyzing and overcoming barriers to career choice, and counteracting choice-limiting self-efficacy beliefs. Each strategy is illustrated with a case example. Future research needs related to the counseling model are discussed.
368 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors selectively review the literature on African American women's career development to clarify how social cognitive mechanisms may be operating, focusing on the central elements of social cognitive theory, namely, self-efficacy and outcome expectations.
Abstract: No comprehensive model of the career development of racial and ethnic minorities has yet been developed; even less attention has been devoted to models of the career development of racial and ethnic minority women. One of the more promising career theories that may prove satisfactory in accounting for ethnicity in career development is Bandura's (1986) social cognitive theory (Lent & Brown, 1996; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994). In this article, the authors selectively review the literature on African American women's career development to clarify how social cognitive mechanisms may be operating. The primary focus of this conceptual analysis is on the central elements of social cognitive theory, namely, self-efficacy and outcome expectations. Implications for counseling are presented.
316 citations