Browsing Wei-Cheng J. Mau by Issue Date
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Attitudes toward counselors and counseling processes: A comparison of Chinese and American graduate students
(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 ... -
Help-seeking perceptions and behaviors: A comparison of Chinese and American graduate students
(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 ... -
Effects of computer-assisted instruction in using formal decision-making strategies to choose a college major
(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 ... -
Extending Holland's hexagon: Procedures, counseling applications, and research
(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. ... -
Worldview differences between college students and graduate counseling trainees
(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 ... -
Decision-making style as a predictor of career decision-making status and treatment gains
(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
(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 ... -
Characteristics of female students who aspire to science and engineering or homemaking occupations
(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, ... -
Career counseling at the edge of 21st century
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Assessing the cognitive complexity of vocational value constructs using the career grid: A comparison of the expressed and supplied methods
(SAGE Publications, 1997-01)Examines the cognitive complexity of vocational value constructs. Use of a revised career grid in the study; Person construct theory as the origin of the career grid; Steps in the administration of the career grid procedure; ... -
Effects of career interventions on vocational cognitive complexity
(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 ... -
Parental influences on the high school students' academic achievement: A comparison of Asian immigrants, Asian Americans, and White Americans
(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 ... -
Counseling and educational reform
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Comparing interactions of field-based and campus-based preservice teachers
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 1998)Historically, the United States has been faced with the challenge of providing an adequate and appropriate education to a diverse population. As the ethnic tapestry depicting American culture becomes more interwoven and ... -
High school students' career plans: The influence of others' expectations.
(SAGE Publications, 1998)A study examined that influence of others' expectations on high school students' career plans. Participants were a nationally representative sample of multiracial 10th- and 12th-grade students. Results indicated that the ... -
Effects of computer-assisted career decision making on vocational identity and career exploratory behaviors
(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 ... -
Racial and ethnic differences in motivation for educational achievement in the United States
(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 ... -
Educational and vocational aspirations of minority and female students: A longitudinal study
(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 ... -
Cultural differences in career decision-making styles and self-efficacy
(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 ... -
Gender differences in homework and test scores in mathematics, reading and science at tenth and twelfth grade
(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 ...