Evaluating Differences in College Students' Career Decision Making on the Basis of Disability Status

Abstract

and career decision-making attributional style (D. A. Luzzo & A. Jenkins-Smith, 1998). Students with disabilities reported significantly lower levels of career decision-making self-efficacy and exhibited more of a pessimistic attributional style for career decision making than did their peers without disabilities. Results are discussed in the context of developing effective career counseling interventions for college students with disabilities.Relatively little is known about the career decision-making process of indwiduals with dsabllities. Although attempts have been made in recent years to incorporate the disability element into existing theories of career choice and development, there have been relatively few efforts to develop models of career decision making that focus primarily on factors associated with disabilities (Rojewski, 1994). As the number of college students with disabilities continues to rise,

The Relationship between Dysfunctional Career Thoughts and Adjustment to Disability in College Students with Learning Disabilities

“…Specifically, college students with learning disabilities obtained a higher mean score when compared to the normative group on the EC scale. This is consistent with research by Luzzo, Hitchings, Retish, and Shoemaker (1999) and Luzzo and Jenkins-Smith (1998) who reported that in terms of attributional style for career decision making, students with disabilities believed external factors were responsible for career-related outcomes in their lives.…”

The Career Development Needs of College Students with Learning Disabilities: In Their Own Words

“…The experiences and personal perspectives of students with disabilities were not reflected in the data obtained in our initial studies and the studies by others (Hitchings et al, 1998;Luzzo et al, 1999). In our approach, we chose to treat each interview as a case study and then combined the students' verbatim accounts to help answer the questions we posed.…”

Difficulties in making career decisions in students with mild intellectual disability and their typically developing peers

“…Učenici sa LIO imaju nekonzistentan izbor zanimanja (p=0,023) jer ne uspevaju da shvate da li su njihove lične karakteristike, sposobnosti i veštine u skladu sa izabranim zanimanjem (Jagger, Neukrug & McAuliffe, 1992), manje su informisani o zanimanjima od učenika TR (p=0,014), imaju manje iskustva u donošenju odluke (p=0,043), manje su upoznati kako se odvija obuka za zanimanje koje ih interesuje (p=0,001) i treba im znatno više podrške u izboru zanimanja od učenika TR (p=0,012). Aktivnosti istraživanja i izbora zanimanja često su ograničene za osobe sa LIO u osnovnoj školi, jer se dosta vremena utroši na akademsku remedijaciju umesto na pripreme za izbor zanimanja (profesionalna orijentacija ili usmeravanje) i profesionalno informisanje (Luzzo, Hitchings, Retish & Shoemaker, 1999). Kao rezultat toga, oni nisu svesni koja sve zanimanja postoje, šta znači pojam karijera (zanimanje, radno mesto, obuka), nisu razvili veštinu donošenja profesionalnih odluka i sposobnost rešavanja problema (Hitchings et al, 2001;Stang et al, 2009).…”