Although the popularity of computer assisted career guidance (CACG) systems has increased among practitioners, researchers have yet to fully identify its proper use. This study examined the effect of a cognitive structuring intervention that was designed to prepare subjects for their interaction with the DISCOVER CACG system. / The study included 3 groups of 30 subjects who voluntarily sought career guidance services at a university career resource center. A card sort instrument designed to examine subjects' cognitive mapping of the world of work's occupations and an instructional videotape that presented Holland's (1985) schema for representing the world of work were developed for the study. Subjects received one of the following treatments before they used the DISCOVER CACG system: videotape and card sort, card sort only, or neither treatment (control group). Pretest and posttest instruments were the Occupational Alternatives Question (Slaney, 1978), the Vocational Identity scale of the My Vocational Situation (Holland, Daiger, & Power, 1980) and the Occupational Grouping Task, the card sort task developed for the study. / Analysis of Variance, Kruskall Wallis, and Chi-square results showed that subjects who had displayed evidence of successfully assimilating the Holland schema did not differ significantly from subjects who were not exposed to the cognitive structuring intervention on measures of occupational certainty, occupational crystallization, vocational identity, occupational representation system differentiation, nor occupational representation system stability. However, in 2 of 3 analyses, F-tests of variances associated with pretest and posttest measures by Group indicated that the cognitive structuring intervention had the effect of significantly congealing subjects' cognitive mapping of the world of work's occupations. The results are discussed from the perspectives of information processing and CACG practice. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-10, Section: A, page: 2977. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75679 |
| Contributors | SHAHNASARIAN, MICHAEL., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 212 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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