Influencing Career Choices of Seventh‐Grade Students

Harris, Thomas L.; Wallin, Jean S.

doi:10.1002/j.2164-585x.1978.tb00976.x

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“…Along with these national efforts, there are some promising research beginnings concerned with either what people know about occupations , Loesch & Sampson 1978 or techniques fo r stimulating occupational exploration (Bostaph & Moore 1979, Fifield & Petersen 1978, Harris & Wallin 1978, Young 1979. Until recently there were no published data about the amount of occupational information possessed by any seg ment of the population .…”

Section: Forms Of Career Assistancementioning

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“…Until recently there were no published data about the amount of occupational information possessed by any seg ment of the population . Harris & Wallin (1978) and Malett et al (1978) demonstrate how a person's vocational aspirations can be manipulated by the amount and kind of information provided. Haase et al (1979) show experimentally that the presentation of both positive and negative occupational information increases the cognitive complexity of a person's occupational perceptions.…”

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Counseling Psychology: Career Interventions, Research, and Theory

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1981

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

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Section: Forms Of Career Assistancementioning

confidence: 98%

Counseling Psychology: Career Interventions, Research, and Theory

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1981

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

150

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“…Cochran (1983) demonstrated that differentiated and integrated dimensions of cognitive schema impact vocational behavior. Positive relationships between cognitive vocational maturity and realistic, accurate, and effective career decisionmaking have been reported by Neimeyer, et al, 1985;Harris and Wallin, 1978;Westbrook and Parry-Hill, 1973;and Crites, 1969. Because the focus of the overall project was sex equity, of which this study was a part, it was of interest to inquire whether occupational attitudes and perceived occupational abilities of young adolescents were a function of gender. The following null hypothesis was tested in this study: No subset of the variables of family life situation, gender, self-esteem, socioeconomic status, or cognitive vocational complexity discriminates between young adolescents with high and low occupational attitudes and perceived occupational abilities.…”

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Influence of selected variables on occupational attitudes and perceived occupational abilities of young adolescents

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Jessell

1992

J Career Dev

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As part of a multi-year career equity project designed to reduce gender bias in career exploration, 6,756 students of 71 Indiana middle and junior high schools responded to a questionnaire which assessed their beliefs about and expectations of anticipated educational accomplishments, future lifestyles, career decision-making, and perceptions of career opportunities open to men and women in today's society. Students also furnished demographic data and reacted to 20 occupations by indicating whether they believed they could do the work called for by an occupation, given the necessary education and/or training, and whether they would consider that kind of work as a career. Ten of the presented occupations had been traditionally dominated by males, with the other 10 traditionally dominated by females. It was possible to rank schools from 1 to 71 according to their students' responses.Ten schools were identified, five at each extreme. Five were characterized by students who responded they could perform most if not all of the occupations, and would consider most if not all of them as a career. At the other extreme were five schools characterized by students who responded they could perform none or only a small number of the occupations, and would consider few if any of them as a possible career.

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“…Up-todate and accurate career information has been viewed as a key component of career decision-making since the Parsonian matching model appeared in the early 1900s (Harris & Wallin, 1978;Herr & Cramer, 1984). Career information is important to both counselors and clients.…”

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McCormac¹

1989

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Information about the world of work and the relationship of individuals to it, is essential to the career development process. Up-todate and accurate career information has been viewed as a key component of career decision-making since the Parsonian matching model appeared in the early 1900s (Harris & Wallin, 1978;Herr & Cramer, 1984). Career information is important to both counselors and clients. Counselers need to know how and where to get current job and career information that will best help their clients, and they need to provide clients help in translating that knowledge into concepts that are personally meaningful in making career decisions.This article focuses primarily on career information sources and resources, and addresses how counselors can select resources to help clients process information more effectively. Every client has a unique way of processing information and, therefore, a unique way of using information (NOICC, 1988a). Sources and Types of Career InformationThe primary sources of occupational, career, and labor market information include federal and state agencies and nongovernmental sources. Because of the many types of career information available, this section is organized in a modified version of the spectrum of information described by Kunze (1967). This spectrum provides a system for delineating the range of career information required to meet both counselors' and clients' needs:Mary Elizabeth McCormac is Occupational Information System Specialist for National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee,

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Influencing Career Choices of Seventh‐Grade Students

Cited by 11 publications

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Counseling Psychology: Career Interventions, Research, and Theory

Counseling Psychology: Career Interventions, Research, and Theory

Influence of selected variables on occupational attitudes and perceived occupational abilities of young adolescents

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