Kathryn Watson, Duhita Mahatmya, Saba Ali, Megan Foley Nicpon, Susan Assouline
{"title":"Understanding factors that influence students' sense of belonging and engagement in a career exploration program: A mixed methods study","authors":"Kathryn Watson, Duhita Mahatmya, Saba Ali, Megan Foley Nicpon, Susan Assouline","doi":"10.1002/cdq.12368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cdq.12368","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Talent Identification and Career Exploration (TICE) program, funded by a Jacob K. Javits grant, focuses on increasing underrepresented students’ participation in gifted and talented programs. Early identification for gifted and talented programs expands student learning experiences, and when students from marginalized groups are not identified, they are denied equal opportunity to maximize their potential and enter the appropriate career path. This study focused on sixth- and seventh-grade students from a predominantly rural midwestern state who participated in TICE from 2020 to 2022. Students engaged in four modules focused on sensemaking of their strengths and potential future career matches. This mixed-methods study used student feedback to understand the relationship between students’ feelings of belonging and learning format on student enjoyment of the modules. Results show that students’ sense of belonging was a significant predictor of student enjoyment for two of the four modules, and learning format was not a significant predictor of student enjoyment. Qualitative data revealed students valued working with each other and learned about themselves and careers for which they would be a potential match. Findings from the study can be applied to inform the development, implementation, and evaluation of school-based career interventions for talented student populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":47601,"journal":{"name":"Career Development Quarterly","volume":"73 1","pages":"32-47"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cdq.12368","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143565247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amber Manning-Ouellette, Lucia Y. Dickinson, Karla J. Gutierrez, Emily F. Gilly
{"title":"The mirage of diversity, equity, and inclusion: Exploring career development professionals’ pedagogy and praxis","authors":"Amber Manning-Ouellette, Lucia Y. Dickinson, Karla J. Gutierrez, Emily F. Gilly","doi":"10.1002/cdq.12366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cdq.12366","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite the importance of students exploring career options, developing career readiness, and experiencing a successful transition to the workforce, historically excluded populations’ participation in career development remains low. Additionally, career development professionals continue to feel unsupported in their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices and in incorporating DEI in their respective roles. This multicase study uncovers a mirage approach to the work of career development professionals, providing opportunities to engage in this work, yet largely leaving DEI work unsupported in their quest to incorporate it into their spaces. Results indicate the larger impacts of navigating a lack of support as well as the oppressive intuitional structures that persist while engaging in DEI pedagogy and praxis.</p>","PeriodicalId":47601,"journal":{"name":"Career Development Quarterly","volume":"72 4","pages":"366-383"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142762413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kenneth E. Granillo-Velasquez, Nicolas P. Musemeche, Denise L. Reyes
{"title":"Mapping the modern workforce: An overview of workforce competency demands","authors":"Kenneth E. Granillo-Velasquez, Nicolas P. Musemeche, Denise L. Reyes","doi":"10.1002/cdq.12367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cdq.12367","url":null,"abstract":"<p>An understanding of the demands of the contemporary world of work may help guide policy- and decision-making processes. However, despite the importance of this understanding, few studies have attempted to examine the universe of available occupations to determine the most in-demand knowledge, skills, abilities, and other worker characteristics (KSAOs) as well as the relative demands of these KSAOs across occupations. This study addresses the first concern by calculating weighted averages that rely on the Occupational Information Network's (O*NET's) data on worker requirements and characteristics and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS’) employment counts. Furthermore, this study leverages the power of latent profile analyses to identify numerous workplace profiles, allowing us to uncover the extent to which KSAOs are demanded in relation to each other. Key findings suggest that the competencies relating to communication, business, technology, and cognition were among the most highly demanded KSAOs in the labor market. Additionally, identified KSAO profiles indicated that the rank ordering of KSAO level requirements differed across large sections of the labor market, indicating that the rank orderings proposed by the weighted averages were not consistent across the occupations examined. In sum, the findings of this study provide vital occupational information that contributes to our understanding of the KSAOs that are expected from the prospective workforce. In the context of career guidance, such information may assist career counselors and other guidance professionals in describing the world of work to their clients, thereby empowering them to make more educated career development choices that will improve their employability within the extant labor market.</p>","PeriodicalId":47601,"journal":{"name":"Career Development Quarterly","volume":"73 1","pages":"48-67"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143565370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antecedents of mentors’ interpersonal behaviors at work: A cross-sectional study","authors":"Najat Firzly, Jean-Christophe Goulet-Pelletier, Luc Pelletier, Martine Lagacé","doi":"10.1002/cdq.12364","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cdq.12364","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Building on the self-determination theory and the work of Pelletier and their colleagues, we conducted a study to examine the antecedents of mentors’ interpersonal behaviors. The purpose of this study was to determine how influence from above (administrative, practice, and colleagues’ pressures) and influence from below (perception of mentees’ level of self-determined motivation) were related to the mentors’ motivations for their work and the mentoring relationship, and how the mentors’ motivations were related to their interpersonal behaviors. In the present study (<i>N </i>= 600), the results of a cross-sectional design showed that mentors who perceived greater influence from above and lower influence from below were more non-self-determined toward their work and the mentoring relationship. In turn, the more non-self-determined they were, the more they were acting in a controlling manner with their mentees. Overall, our findings supported the independent and complementary role of influences from above and from below on mentors’ motivations and interpersonal behaviors.</p>","PeriodicalId":47601,"journal":{"name":"Career Development Quarterly","volume":"72 4","pages":"328-345"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cdq.12364","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142208649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of contextual predictors and psychosocial resources in the school-to-work transition","authors":"Ahmet Ayvaz, Nurten Karacan-Özdemir","doi":"10.1002/cdq.12365","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cdq.12365","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Based on the Psychology of Working Theory, this study examined the influence of contextual factors and psychosocial resources on school-to-work transition. Data were collected from 781 senior university students in Türkiye, and the relationships between economic constraints, marginalization, general self-efficacy, career adaptability, perceived future employability, and future decent work were examined. According to the results, economic constraints and marginalization negatively predicted perceived future employability and future decent work. Marginalization significantly predicted general self-efficacy and career adaptability, whereas economic constraints were not associated with two psychosocial resources. General self-efficacy significantly predicted career adaptability, while it was not related to perceived future employability and future decent work. Career adaptability significantly predicted perceived future employability but not future decent work. Lastly, perceived future employability significantly predicted future decent work. The findings revealed the significant influence of contextual factors on the school-to-work transition. Implications and suggestions for future research directions were also discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47601,"journal":{"name":"Career Development Quarterly","volume":"72 4","pages":"346-365"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142208595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of idiosyncratic deals in shaping retirement preferences of older workers: A psychological needs perspective","authors":"Caroline Hasselgren Bune, Robin Jonsson","doi":"10.1002/cdq.12363","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cdq.12363","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines how idiosyncratic deals (I-deals) affect older workers’ preferred retirement age. Drawing on basic psychological needs theory, we specifically investigate the role of need satisfaction at work in explaining this relationship. By means of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM), our hypotheses were tested in a sample of 4234 employees aged 65 years or older in a large public-sector organization in Sweden. The findings suggest that employees with negotiated I-deals concerning schedule flexibility or financial incentives experienced greater need satisfaction and preferred to retire later than those without such deals. Additionally, task and work responsibility deals were shown to directly and positively predict retirement preferences. This study offers new insights into how I-deals could delay the preferred retirement by fulfilling basic psychological needs. It may thereby inform interventions to increase need satisfaction at work and the implementation of policies for recruiting and retaining older workers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47601,"journal":{"name":"Career Development Quarterly","volume":"72 4","pages":"310-327"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cdq.12363","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141943678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tong Xiao, Qing Zeng, Ying Peng, Minqiang Zhang, Biyao Wang
{"title":"Career-related parental support and learning engagement: Exploring the mediation pathways of career adaptability and life meaning","authors":"Tong Xiao, Qing Zeng, Ying Peng, Minqiang Zhang, Biyao Wang","doi":"10.1002/cdq.12362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cdq.12362","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Parents greatly affect youth's vocational and educational development. The objective of the study was to investigate how parental support in career development affects adolescents’ learning engagement and the mediating effects of four career adaptability aspects and life meaning. The participants were 516 high school students from Guangdong, China. The study found that: (1) Career-related parental support had a positive impact on learning engagement; (2) career confidence and life meaning acted as mediators connecting career-related parental support with learning engagement; and (3) there was a chain mediation path among career-related parental support, career concern, control, and confidence, life meaning, and learning engagement. Our findings add to the prevailing literature by confirming and extending self-determination theory as well as career development and systems theory. Based on these findings, we hope that schools and parents may implement some interventions to promote the academic engagement of students.</p>","PeriodicalId":47601,"journal":{"name":"Career Development Quarterly","volume":"72 4","pages":"295-309"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142762744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mei-Hua Lin, Pek Kei Lim, Alia Azalea, Michelle Chin Chin Lee
{"title":"Factors affecting career motivation of recent graduates: Career adaptability as a mediator","authors":"Mei-Hua Lin, Pek Kei Lim, Alia Azalea, Michelle Chin Chin Lee","doi":"10.1002/cdq.12361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cdq.12361","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Career adaptability is a key resource for adapting to and transitioning into careers. However, gaps are found in the research on career adaptability. This study examined whether proactive personality, future-proofing, psychological capital, and technology readiness predict career adaptability and whether career adaptability mediates the relationship between these predictors and career motivation. The data from 455 Malaysian recent university graduates found career adaptability to mediate the relationship between all predictors and career motivation. They positively affected career adaptability, which in turn, increased career motivation. While, in the presence of predictors of individual characteristics, technology readiness was not significant in predicting career adaptability, it predicted career motivation. The study recommends enhancing career adaptability and personal traits through interventions and training, stressing the importance of integrating technology into higher education to promote career motivation and readiness for adapting to the future work environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":47601,"journal":{"name":"Career Development Quarterly","volume":"72 4","pages":"276-294"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142762495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elif Balin, Yangyang Liu, Xinrui Xu, Rose, Joana Scharinger, Emily Jackson, Ellen Zold Goldman, Nicole M. Anderson
{"title":"An exploration of cultural competence in career services with international students","authors":"Elif Balin, Yangyang Liu, Xinrui Xu, Rose, Joana Scharinger, Emily Jackson, Ellen Zold Goldman, Nicole M. Anderson","doi":"10.1002/cdq.12360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cdq.12360","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study reports on career development professionals’ (CDPs) understanding and use of cultural competence in their work with international students. The Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies guided the study as a conceptual framework based on the literature on international student experiences. The research team used an exploratory qualitative design informed by the community-based participatory and social justice research approaches. The study included two phases: a survey (<i>n</i> = 33) and semi-structured interviews (<i>n</i> = 12). The survey results indicated limited familiarity with specific competency frameworks and informed the semi-structured interviews. Five themes emerged: (1) Awareness of intersectionality and systems of oppression; (2) the need for a holistic approach to career services; (3) specific cultural competence skills; (4) systemic barriers for both international students and CDPs; and (5) the need for advocacy on behalf of and with international students. The findings are discussed with implications for CDPs, institutions, and systemic change.</p>","PeriodicalId":47601,"journal":{"name":"Career Development Quarterly","volume":"72 3","pages":"255-273"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142130328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of university co-curricular activities on competency articulation proficiency: A mediated model","authors":"Adam M. Kanar, Bill Heinrich","doi":"10.1002/cdq.12358","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cdq.12358","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To succeed after graduating, university students must develop and communicate their career-related competencies to hiring managers or graduate admissions committees. Co-curricular activities (e.g., volunteering, mentoring) coupled with reflection can facilitate students’ career exploration and help them understand, develop, and apply their career-related competencies. Yet, as a scientific community, we need to learn more about the role of co-curricular programming in helping students to effectively articulate their learned competencies. We draw on past research to develop and test a model of university student competency articulation proficiency. A serial mediation model predicted students’ learning goal orientation would influence their co-curricular engagement, which, in turn, would predict career exploration and decision-making self-efficacy and self-reported competency articulation proficiency. We surveyed 126 students enrolled in co-curricular programming at a university in North America. Results largely supported the hypothesized model. Learning goal orientation, directly and indirectly, affected career exploration and decision-making self-efficacy and competency articulation proficiency.</p>","PeriodicalId":47601,"journal":{"name":"Career Development Quarterly","volume":"72 3","pages":"231-242"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cdq.12358","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141195924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}