Development of the Career Exploration Survey (CES)

The role of ambiguity tolerance in career decision making

“…EE involves exploration regarding occupation, jobs, and organizations (e.g., "Obtained information on specific jobs or companies"), whereas SE includes self-understanding and retrospection (e.g., "Focused my thoughts on me as a person"). Research has revealed internal consistency alpha coefficients ranging from .60 to .88 for the CES subscales (Nauta, 2007;Stumpf, et al, 1983).…”

Career-specific parental behaviors, career exploration and career adaptability: A three-wave investigation among Chinese undergraduates

“…To develop these adaptive-abilities, individuals need to continuously gain insights of their own characteristics and the complexity of working environments through various personal experiences (Savickas, 2013). As career exploration refers to the activities that enable individuals to collect and analyze information Parental Behaviors and Career Adaptability 5 that is relevant to their career development (Blustein, 1997;Jordaan, 1963;Stumpf, Colarelli, & Hartman, 1983), we argue that career exploration may serve as a proximal antecedent for individuals' career adaptability.Career exploration includes self-exploration and environmental exploration (Stumpf et al, 1983). Through self-exploration, individuals can thoroughly examine their own interests, values, and experiences and thus form a clear image about who they are and how these internal attributes shape their future careers (Blustein, 1989; Flum & Blustein, 2000;Stumpf et al, 1983).…”

“…As career exploration refers to the activities that enable individuals to collect and analyze information Parental Behaviors and Career Adaptability 5 that is relevant to their career development (Blustein, 1997;Jordaan, 1963;Stumpf, Colarelli, & Hartman, 1983), we argue that career exploration may serve as a proximal antecedent for individuals' career adaptability.…”

“…Career exploration. Career exploration was assessed by the scale developed by Stumpf et al (1983), which consist of 5 items on self exploration and 6 items on environment exploration. As these two sub-scales were highly correlated with each other (r = .69, p < .001), in the current study we calculated the average score of these 11 items to represent undergraduates' career exploration.…”

Job search motivation of part-time or unemployed Japanese college graduates

“…Reliability was found to be .96 in the current study. Adachi (2001) provided validation evidence of her scale in terms of its relationship with career exploration intentions, measured using items from Betz and Voyten (1997), and career exploration behavior, measured using items from Stumpf, Colarelli, and Hartman (1983). The items were modified to be suitable for university graduates.…”