Research Design Out of Class Assignment #1 Find the Article: \"Relationships Bet

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Research Design Out of Class Assignment #1 Find the Article: "Relationships Between Career Indecision Subtypes and Ego Identity Development" by Colby R. Cohen, Judy M. Chartrand, and Douglas P. Jowdy. (1995) 1. a. Print a copy 2. Initial Journal and Introduction sections: Highlight or list... i. Where the Journal came from or what Journal published it... ii. What four overall groups were used? iii. What does the present article address? iv. Hypothesis 1 v. Hypothesis 2 vi. Hypothesis 3 a. vii. Hypothesis 4 3. Methods section Who were the participant? i. How many? ii. Ages? a. ii Race/Ethnicities involved? What two instruments were used? What 2 studies were used in the Procedures and what was the procedure? b. c. 4. Results section: a. Tests of Hypothesis: i. What did the Wilk's criterion reveal? ii. What about the test for shape? i. What about the trust, industry, and ego identity subscales? 5. Discussion section: a. What were the results from the profile analysis? b. Any other differences mentioned? c. What can be inferred from the results? d. What few things did the future research section reveal?

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(Answer) (2) (a) (1) Journal of Counselling Psychology

(2) Four cluster groups: ready to decide, developmentally undecided, choice anxious, and chronically indecisive.

(3) It addresses the state of an individual’s personal temperament in relationship to their approach to picking a career

(4) The Ready to Decide group will score significantly higher than the   Developmentally Undecided, Choice Anxious, and Chronically Indecisive groups.

(5) The Developmentally Undecided group will score significantly higher than the Choice Anxious and the Chronically Indecisive groups.

(6) The Choice Anxious group will score significantly higher than the Chronically Indecisive group.

(3) (A) Career undecided college students

(1) 423

(2) 18-26 years-old

(3) Caucasians – 277 and African-American – 60

(B) The four scales are:

             Career Choice Anxiety

GeneralizedIndecisiveness

Need for Career Information

and Need for Self-Knowledge

(C) Students were given 8 random questionnaires out of which 2 were used. Centroid clusters (mean of the means of scales comprising a cluster) were the mean of the four scales.

(4) (A) (1) Different career decision groups had different degrees of resolution on the identity subscales.

(2) Subscales averaged across groups were found to deviate significantly from a

flat profile.

(3) Based on trust, industry and ego, there was a simple contrast between the four groups.

(5) (a) Results from the profile analyses suggest that there are important developmental differences in ego identity for those experiencing different types of career decision-making difficulties.

The Ready to Decide group, who reported the fewest decision difficulties, had the most successful resolution across all identity stages.

The Chronically Indecisive group, who reported the most decision difficulties, had the least successful resolution.

The Ready to Decide group had significantly more successful resolution across all psychosocial stages than did the Choice Anxious group

The Choice Anxious Group reported decision difficulties largely around anxiety.

The Developmentally Undecided group, those whose decision difficulties seem to be around a need for career information, reported significantly more successful resolution across all psychosocial stages than did the Chronically Indecisive group.

The Developmentally Undecided and the Choice Anxious groups differed significantly only on the Initiative sub stage.

Overall, it appears that differences in identity development are related to the kinds of career decision difficulties individual’s experience.

(b) The differences in the earlier stages of trust, autonomy, and initiative are moderate, career decision groups begin to differentiate dramatically during the stages of industry and ego identity. Positive ego qualities are cumulative and facilitate psychosocial growth. It may be that deficiencies in positive ego qualities, which result from less successful resolution of the psychosocial stages, are also cumulative, and may hinder the individual's ability to gain positive ego qualities.

(C) Students from poor backgrounds have more pressure to be successful. This is what beckons them to be nervous when picking a career. Ironically, this anxiety is what could poorly affect their decision-making skills. On the other hand, students from a well-off background seemed to be more confident which worked to their benefit when picking a career with a relaxed mind.

(d) For future research, it would be helpful for the researchers to have a more refined method to measure the psychological stage resolution. Furthermore, it would be helpful to link the measurement of stage resolution with behaviours.

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