CAREER DECISION MAKING WORKSHOP

The primary purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that Hope Scale scores would play a significant role in predicting the effectiveness of a five-session career planning workshop for 61 adults. The results of three hierarchical regressions suggest that the trait hope does not play a significant role in predicting participants ' career decidedness, career decision-making self-efficacy, or vocational identity after completing the workshop. Second, this study's purpose was also to investigate the effectiveness of this five-session career planning workshop for adults. Repeated measures, single sample t-tests were performed. Significant change scores were found on four of the five repeated measures including pre- to post-treatment scores on career decidedness, vocational identity, career decision-making self efficacy, and state hope. Only work hope scores did not change significantly from pre- to post-treatment. Results suggest that while the participants in this workshop changed significantly from pre- to post-workshop, trait hope did not play a significant role in the participants ' outcome. (Contains 148 references.) (Author/VWC) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document