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Using Social Cognitive Career Theory to Conceptualize and Develop a Measure of the Barriers to Career Choice for Individuals Who Have Criminal Records
| Title: | Using Social Cognitive Career Theory to Conceptualize and Develop a Measure of the Barriers to Career Choice for Individuals Who Have Criminal Records |
| Author: | Cummings, Devon Leeann |
| Description: | The goal of this study was to create a questionnaire designed to measure the barriers to career choice that exist for individuals who have criminal records (i.e., ex-offenders). This measure was based on the social cognitive career theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994) choice model, which postulates that barriers related to three components of the model (i.e., person inputs, background contextual affordances, and proximal contextual influences) may limit career choice. Items for this measure were developed based on a review of literature related to barriers to career choice that exist for ex-offenders, ethnic minority group members, women, low socioeconomic status group members, individuals who abuse substances, and individuals who have mental illness. After preliminary efforts were taken to refine the measure (i.e., having it reviewed by experts on the population of ex-offenders, researchers who have developed barriers measures, an SCCT expert, and a small group of ex-offenders, as well as a pilot test with 50 ex-offenders), it was given to individuals who have at least one criminal conviction and have searched for a job while having that conviction on their records. An Exploratory Factor Analysis was used to determine whether the underlying factor structure of the measure’s items was consistent with the principles of social cognitive career theory. Contrary to this hypothesis, the measure demonstrated eight factors that consisted of more complex factor structures than the general constructs of person and environment, or even the separation of distal and proximal environmental influences. |
| Permanent Link: |
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1226532928
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/103662 |
| Date: | 2008 |
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