Cross-Cultural Career Counselling

When conducting a search of the literature concerning the career decision-making process undertaken by Vietnamese Australian tertiary students, various papers concerning career counselling with ethnic minorities and cross-cultural career counselling have been consulted. This paper presents the main points in the literature because of their relevance to the Australian context. The knowledge and skills required of career counsellors who work with such clients, as described in these texts, highlight the challenges facing these professionals.

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Behind Dislike: Adaptive Purposes for Undergraduates’ Negative Emotions in the Career Decision-Making Process

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12198071 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (19) ◽

pp. 8071

Author(s):

Keith A. Puffer ◽

Kris G. Pence

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Decision Making ◽

Negative Affect ◽

Negative Emotions ◽

Career Decision ◽

Emotional Reactions ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Decision Making Process ◽

Career Decision Making ◽

Response Options

The first career interest inventory emerged in the late 1920s. The response options for the questions in the Strong Vocational Interest Blank included ‘like’ and ‘dislike.’ Both answers are emotional reactions. Regrettably, clients within the context of vocational counseling often regard negative feelings (e.g., dislikes) as inconsequential. Yet, negative emotionality can be adaptive and feasibly assist career decision-makers. In the literature on college students’ career development and emotional functioning, there is a paucity of information about how negative emotions advance the career decision-making process and how career decision-makers apply such knowledge. Hence, a sample of undergraduates (n = 256) was recruited to ascertain imaginable adaptive career decision-making benefits from negative affect. Employing a Mixed Methods-Grounded Theory methodology, the present study tabulated the negative emotional reactions of college students to vocations that were self- or computer-reported. In addition, their answers to two investigative questions about the selection of their negative emotions were analyzed. From the data, three negative meta-emotions emerged as reactions to participants’ reported occupations; four adaptive purposes for their selected negative affect were also discovered. A theoretical framework and applicative suggestions from the findings are presented.

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Career-decision making of university students: cross-cultural comparisons between Mongolia and Japan

Proceedings of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences ◽

10.5564/pmas.v61i02.1761 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 57-67

Author(s):

Dulguun Damdin ◽

Toshiyuki Yamashita ◽

Masami Ishihara

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

University Students ◽

Cultural Differences ◽

Career Decision ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Social Changes ◽

Career Decision Making ◽

Japanese Students ◽

Cultural Comparisons ◽

University Performance

The purpose of this study was to examine and compare Mongolians (118 men and 252 women) and Japanese (158 men and 201 women) university students’ awareness related to their occupation and their motivations for entering university. The survey focused on the vocational motives, university performance/experiences, and motivations for entering university. The analyses showed that although Mongolian and Japanese students have similar occupational views, there are some cultural differences that can be mainly identified with the recent historic developments and social changes both the nations experienced (e.g socialistic era in Mongolia).

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