Life Design Counseling Group Intervention With Portuguese Adolescents

This article examines the process and outcome of a life design counseling group intervention with students in Grades 9 and 12. First, we applied a quasi-experimental methodology to analyze the intervention’s effectiveness in promoting career certainty, career decision-making, self-efficacy, and career adaptability in a sample of 236 students. Second, focus groups comprising 33 participants were conducted, examining participants’ perceptions of the intervention process and outcome. Our findings showed that the intervention had a significant effect on both career certainty and career self-efficacy, but it had no effect on career adaptability. Our results also showed that My Career Story (MCS) had a stronger effect on Grade 12 students. Focus group participants reported on the usefulness of MCS, as well as on its benefits, which include increased information as well as a sense of direction, self-discovery, connection, and increased self-awareness. Grade 9 participants expressed more difficulties in narrating self-experience than Grade 12 participants did. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.

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Improving Career Decision Self-Efficacy and STEM Self-Efficacy in High School Girls: Evaluation of an Intervention

Journal of Career Development ◽

10.1177/0894845317721651 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 46 (1) ◽

pp. 62-76 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Lia D. Falco ◽

Jessica J. Summers

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Treatment Group ◽

Career Counseling ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Repeated Measures ◽

Group Intervention ◽

Career Decision ◽

Analysis Of Covariance ◽

Future Research ◽

Control Group

This study evaluated whether a career group intervention that incorporates the four sources of self-efficacy and addresses perceived career barriers is effective at improving the career decision self-efficacy and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) self-efficacy for adolescent girls. Of the 88 girls in our study, 42 students were Latina and 46 were White, 40 were freshman, and 48 were sophomores attending the same high school. From this sample, 44 of these girls participated in a 9-week treatment group. Using repeated measures analysis of covariance with ethnicity and grade as covariates, results indicated that, compared with the control group ( n = 44), participants in the treatment group improved significantly on variables of career decision self-efficacy and STEM self-efficacy and increased those gains at 3-month follow-up. The discussion focuses on implications for career counseling, limitations of the study, and future research.

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Self-efficacy and self-awareness: moral insights to increased leader effectiveness

Journal of Management Development ◽

10.1108/jmd-01-2016-0011 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 35 (9) ◽

pp. 1163-1173 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Cam Caldwell ◽

Linda A. Hayes

Keyword(s):

Self Efficacy ◽

Academic Research ◽

Leader Effectiveness ◽

Individual Growth ◽

Future Research ◽

Self Awareness ◽

Moral Obligations ◽

Content Type ◽

Moral Duties ◽

Ethical Leaders

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the relationships between self-efficacy and self-awareness and the moral obligations of leaders in understanding and developing these personal qualities. As leaders strive for excellence, self-efficacy and self-awareness can empower them to unlock their own potential and the potential of their organizations and those with whom they work. Design/methodology/approach The paper integrates research of self-efficacy and self-awareness as they pertain to ethical leadership and presents six propositions that increase leadership effectiveness, create value for the organization, and develop leaders considered my trusted by others. Findings The authors argue that greater understanding of self-efficacy and self-awareness is important for individual growth and can enable ethical leaders to empower themselves, their colleagues, and the organization in which they work. Research limitations/implications This research presents six propositions concerning self-efficacy and self-awareness and their influence on effective leadership that can be tested in future research. The ethically based nature of self-efficacy and self-awareness merits additional academic research and practitioner application. Practical implications This paper provides valuable insights to scholars and practitioners by proposing six propositions that will allow leaders to increase their effectiveness and add value to the organization. Social implications Ethical leaders add value by continuously improving themselves. Ethical leaders owe it to others and themselves to be more effective through a greater understanding of self-efficacy and self-awareness. Originality/value Self-efficacy and self-awareness are moral duties associated with the identities of leaders and important for leaders in understanding their own capabilities and identities. Greater knowledge of self-efficacy and self-awareness can enable ethical leaders to be more effective and create value.

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Unintended Positive Consequences of Development Centres in University Graduates

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.775377 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Melissa White ◽

Jürgen Becker ◽

Marieta du Plessis

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Intervention Group ◽

Experimental Methodology ◽

Future Research ◽

Control Group ◽

Sample Population ◽

University Graduates ◽

Development Centre

This study investigated development centres as a method to improve the generalised self-efficacy of university graduates. This research was motivated by the various challenges, graduates face in order to successfully transition into the world of work. Although there is a general scarcity of skills in many emerging economies like South Africa, graduate unemployment rates remain high. Additionally, graduates are not making the immediate impact that employers would expect due to a lack of technical and “soft skills.” General self-efficacy is an important attribute for job applicants because it provides them with the confidence to solve problems efficiently. The primary research objective was to identify whether the generalised self-efficacy of graduates can be positively affected by a development centre approach in the short-term and long-term. The sample population for this research included Industrial Psychology graduates at a select university in the Western Cape, South Africa (n=17). A quasi-experimental methodology was implemented where an intervention group (n=7) and a control group (n=10) were taken through a development centre approach. The results of the intervention indicated that a development centre approach has a positive impact on self-efficacy levels over the short and medium term. Results from the study emphasise the importance of self-efficacy in graduate employability and indicate how development centres can be used to improve self-efficacy levels. The findings of this study provide a basis for future research into the further development of graduate self-efficacy and the potential benefits for first time job seekers.

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Take a “Selfie”: Examining How Leaders Emerge From Leader Self-Awareness, Self-Leadership, and Self-Efficacy

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.635085 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Eva M. Bracht ◽

Fong T. Keng-Highberger ◽

Bruce J. Avolio ◽

Yiming Huang

Keyword(s):

Self Efficacy ◽

Individual Characteristics ◽

Future Research ◽

Self Awareness ◽

Comprehensive Understanding ◽

Leadership Positions ◽

Leadership Emergence ◽

Research Attention ◽

The Social ◽

Time Lagged

It is important to understand the processes behind how and why individuals emerge as leaders, so that the best and most capable individuals may occupy leadership positions. So far, most literature in this area has focused on individual characteristics, such as personality or cognitive ability. While interactions between individuals and context do get research attention, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of how the social context at work may help individuals to emerge as leaders. Such knowledge could make an important contribution toward getting the most capable, rather than the most dominant or narcissistic individuals, into leadership positions. In the present work, we contribute toward closing this gap by testing a mediation chain linking a leader's leader self-awareness to a follower's leadership emergence with two time-lagged studies (nstudy1 = 449, nstudy2 = 355). We found that the leader's leader self-awareness was positively related to (a) the follower's leadership emergence and (b) the follower's nomination for promotion and that both relationships were serially mediated by the follower's self-leadership and the follower's leader self-efficacy. We critically discuss our findings and provide ideas for future research.

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A Scoping Review of Life Design Intervention Research: Implications for Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice

Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy ◽

10.47634/cjcp.v55i1.70171 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 55 (1) ◽

pp. 138-157

Author(s):

Bradley Lewis ◽

José F. Domene

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Empirical Support ◽

Social Constructionist ◽

Career Counselling ◽

Future Research ◽

Career Adaptability ◽

Balance Case ◽

Career Construction ◽

Life Design ◽

Design Intervention

The recently developed paradigm in career counselling known as life design has caused a proliferation of new interventions. A scoping study was performed to provide an overview of empirical support for the effectiveness of these interventions. Twelve articles that evaluate the efficacy of eight interventions were found. Interventions included individual and group forms of the Career Construction Interview and My Career Story. Others were group-based life design interventions, the Career Construction Genogram, an online-based life design intervention, and a classroom intervention designed for elementary children. Career adaptability was the most commonly evaluated outcome and participants were most commonly from Italy, with no study using North American participants. Experimental or quasi-experimental research designs were most frequently used, while several articles reported on case studies. The authors recommend that future research balance case studies and experimental designs and that further research should validate findings with Canadian populations. This article notes the synergistic potential of engaging with social constructionist approaches in the broader field of counselling and psychotherapy for developing new interventions.

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