Evaluating the effectiveness of a career intervention
Titel:
Evaluating the effectiveness of a career intervention
Auteur:
Schmidt, Ann-Marie Callan, Victor J.
Verschenen in:
Australian psychologist
Paginering:
Jaargang 27 (1992) nr. 2 pagina's 123-126
Jaar:
1992-07-01
Inhoud:
Sixty-five final year high school students with low levels of vocational identity were assigned to one of four types of career intervention that included either individualised career counselling only, counselling only, or counselling in addition to information on their personal and work preferences. Also, a group of 26 students with high levels of vocational identity received individual career counselling. The effectiveness of the intervention was measured in terms of changes from the pretest to both posttests in the congruence between expressed and measured interests, vocational identity, degree of decidedness, internal consistency of expressed interests, the status level of preferred occupations, and the number of jobs listed as being of interest to them. For the low-identity groups, students who received individual career counselling and feedback on their work preferences showed an increase in the consistency of their top job preference from the pretest to the first posttest. All low-identity students increased their level of vocational identity from the pretest to posttests, and there were also increases in their levels of congruency. The number of preferred jobs that were listed also declined. This was seen to indicate greater selectivity in career choices over time. Comparisons of low and high vocational identity students and controls revealed that all groups increased their levels of vocational identity and congruence, and reduced the number of preferred jobs. Finally, at both pretest and posttests higher levels of vocational identity were associated with higher levels of job decidedness.
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