• Characteristics of female students who aspire to science and engineering or homemaking occupations 

  Mau, Wei-Cheng J.; Domnick, M.; Ellsworth, Randy (Wiley Blackwell, 1995-06)

  This study identified predictors that discriminated between nontraditional and traditional career aspirations in a sample composed of 930 eighth?grade female students (52 Asian Americans, 123 Hispanics, 61 African Americans, ...

• Attitudes toward counselors and counseling processes: A comparison of Chinese and American graduate students 

  Mau, Wei-Cheng J.; Jepsen, David A. (Wiley Blackwell, 1988-11)

  Graduate students socialized in separate cultural settings, Taiwan and the United States, but studying at the same large university were surveyed about their (a) preferences for counselor's characteristics, (b) images of ...

• Cultural differences in career decision-making styles and self-efficacy 

  Mau, Wei-Cheng J. (Elsevier, 2000)

  This study examined the cultural relevance of two important career constructs: career decision-making style and career decision-making self-efficacy. Two distinct cultural groups of college students, Americans (N=540) and ...

• Effects of computer-assisted instruction in using formal decision-making strategies to choose a college major 

  Mau, Wei-Cheng J.; Jepsen, David A. (American Psychological Association, 1992-04)

  Compared the effects of using formal decision-making strategies on the quality of students' decisions about choice of a college major. The interaction of students' decision-making characteristics, stage, and style on ...

• Decision-making style as a predictor of career decision-making status and treatment gains 

  Mau, Wei-Cheng J. (SAGE Publications, 1995-01)

  This study investigated the predictability of rational decision- making style on career decision-making status and treatment gains based on a computer-based career intervention. Decision-making style, in relation to ...

• Educational planning and academic Achievement of middle school students: A racial and cultural comparison 

  Mau, Wei-Cheng J. (Wiley Blackwell, 1995-05)

  A nationally representative sample of middle school students from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds was surveyed on educational aspirations, planning, and achievements. Results indicated significant racial and gender ...

• Educational and vocational aspirations of minority and female students: A longitudinal study 

  Mau, Wei-Cheng J.; Bikos, Lynette Heim (American Counseling Association, 2000)

  This study examined the relative importance of school, family, personal/psychological, race, and sex variables in predicting educational and vocational aspirations. A nationally representative sample of 10th-grade students ...

• Effects of career interventions on vocational cognitive complexity 

  Mau, Wei-Cheng J.; Calvert, Christy; Gregory, Richard (SAGE Publications, 1997-06)

  The article reports on the effects of career interventions on vocational cognitive complexity. Career development can be viewed as an ongoing restructuring of vocational schemas, proceeding from a state of undifferentiation ...

• Help-seeking perceptions and behaviors: A comparison of Chinese and American graduate students 

  Mau, Wei-Cheng J.; Jepsen, David A. (Wiley Blackwell, 1990-04)

  The article compares the help-seeking perceptions and behaviors of Chinese and American graduate students. Understanding students' needs and knowing the problem areas in which they need the most help is important for ...

• Extending Holland's hexagon: Procedures, counseling applications, and research 

  Prediger, Dale J.; Swaney, Kyle B.; Mau, Wei-Cheng J. (Wiley Blackwell, 1993-03)

  Since its introduction nearly 25 years ago, Holland's (1985) hexagon has remained in skeletal form. The hexagon is used to depict similarities and differences among occupations-but only six general types of occupations. ...

• Effects of computer-assisted career decision making on vocational identity and career exploratory behaviors 

  Mau, Wei-Cheng J. (SAGE Publications, 1999)

  Undergraduates (n=108) were assigned to six groups: computerized Career Decision-Making (CDM), computerized Self-Directed Search (SDS), CHOICES, CDM and SDS, wait-listed, or control. Teaching decision-making strategies ...

• Gender differences in homework and test scores in mathematics, reading and science at tenth and twelfth grade 

  Mau, Wei-Cheng J.; Lynn, Richard (Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2000)

  Gender differences in maths, reading, science and the amount of homework done out of school were obtained for tenth and twelfth graders from the American National Educational Longitudinal Study. Males obtained significantly ...

• Parental influences on the high school students' academic achievement: A comparison of Asian immigrants, Asian Americans, and White Americans 

  Mau, Wei-Cheng J. (Wiley Blackwell, 1997-07)

  This study investigates the differences in parental influence on academic achievement of Asian immigrants, Asian Americans, and White Americans. The sample consisted of a nationally representative sample of 10th grade ...

• Racial and ethnic differences in motivation for educational achievement in the United States 

  Mau, Wei-Cheng J.; Lynn, Richard (Elsevier, 1999-12)

  Data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study (National Educational Longitudinal Study, (1994). NationalEducational Longitudinal Study: second follow-up (Report No.94-374). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of ...

• Understanding middle students' beliefs about knowledge and learning using a multidimensional paradigm 

  Schommer-Aikins, Marlene; Mau, Wei-Cheng J.; Hutter, Rosetta; Brookhart, Susan (Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2000-11)

  Recent theory (Schommer, 1990) suggests that personal epistemology is multidimensional. The multidimensional epistemology structure with middle school students was tested in this study. Over 1,200 students in Grades 7 and ...

• Worldview differences between college students and graduate counseling trainees 

  Mau, Wei-Cheng J.; Pope-Davis, Donald B. (Wiley Blackwell, 1993-10)

  The purpose of this study was to examine whether graduate students in counseling (n=95) have different worldviews than undergraduate students (n=177) who might be potential clients. Students in both groups completed the ...

• Assessing career decision-making difficulties: A cross-cultural study 

  Mau, Wei-Cheng J. (SAGE Publications, 2001)

  This study examines the validity of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ) in relation to its cultural relevance. Relationships between career decision-making difficulties and career indecision are ...

• Equity education: Issues facing multicultural education: A longitudinal study comparing multicultural knowledge and dispositions of field-base and campus-based teacher candidates 

  Thompson, Johnnie; Bakken, Linda; Mau, Wei-Cheng J. (Elsevier, 2009-01)

  Two groups of teacher candidates, enrolled either in a field-based or campus-based program, were measured before and after their first semester of teacher education courses and again at the end of their student teaching ...

• Ethnic and sex differences in the predictive validity of the scholastic achievement test for college grades 

  Lynn, Richard; Mau, Wei-Cheng J. (SAGE Publications, 2001-06)

  The predictive validity of SAT-Verbal and SAT-Mathematics scores for college grades was examined for males and females and for four ethnic groups in a nationally representative American sample. SAT scores "overpredicted" ...

• Cultural dimensions of career decision-making difficulties 

  Mau, Wei-Cheng J. (Wiley Blackwell, 2004-09)

  This study investigated cultural dimensions of career decision-making difficulties using the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire. Career decision-making difficulties were compared among White, African, Hispanic, ...

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