College Students' Perspectives on Their Career Decision Making

Autor/inn/en	Bubany, Shawn T.; Krieshok, Thomas S.; Black, Michael D.; McKay, Robyn A.
Titel	College Students' Perspectives on Their Career Decision Making
Quelle	In: Journal of Career Assessment, 16 (2008) 2, S.177-197 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1069-0727
DOI	10.1177/1069072707313189
Schlagwörter	College Students; Qualitative Research; Evaluation Methods; Student Attitudes; Career Choice; Decision Making; Correlation; Intuition; Interviews; Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Qualitative Forschung; Schülerverhalten; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Korrelation; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Analogiemodell
Abstract	This mixed methods study examined how college student participants discussed their approach to making career decisions, with a focus on how their perspective may be consistent with various models of career decision making. Brief telephone interviews were conducted with 20 college students, and the narrative data were analyzed using qualitative methods informed by grounded theory and consensual qualitative research (CQR). Based on themes generated by qualitative analysis, a ratings instrument was developed. The instrument was used by two individuals who dually served as auditors of the qualitative findings and as independent raters. Themes, as well as correlations and frequency data derived from the ratings, are discussed. It was found that the views of the participants, in terms of how they thought decisions should be made and how they were approaching their own decisions, were consistent with models of career decision making that include notions of interdependence, experience, intuition, and emotion. (Contains 4 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10