Promoting career information seeking behaviors in college students |
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Authors: | James Aiken Joseph A Johnston |
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Affiliation: | University of Texas USA;University of Missouri USA |
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Abstract: | This study was concerned with the effects of group reinforcement counseling on the frequency of career information-seeking behaviors for 94 theoretically grouped college freshmen and sophomore males. Holland's Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) was used to identify consistent-inconsistent vocational patterns and Crites' Vocational Inventory (VDI) was used to identify vocational maturity-immaturity. Predictions about behavioral change were made for each theoretical conception. Three counseling sessions each 1.5 hr long were utilized. Pre-, post-, and post-post measures of cognitive and active information seeking behaviors outside of the treatment sessions were taken. Group reinforcement counseling and vocational consistency were significantly related to behavioral change over the 6 weeks of this investigation. Unanticipated results regarding the tested dimensions and behavior change are reported and discussed. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be directed to James Aiken Counseling-Psychological Services Center University of Texas Austin Texas 78712. |
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