Psychological intervention

Extension (predicate logic)

Moderation

Statistics

Counseling psychology

Social psychology

Replication (statistics)

Cognitive Information Processing

Virology

Pedagogy

Psychiatry

Computer science

Acoustics

Career development

Thermodynamics

Physics

Homogeneous

Identity (music)

Psychology

Mathematics

Applied psychology

Career counseling

Meta-analysis

Internal medicine

Vocational education

Intervention (counseling)

Medicine

Programming language

Clinical psychology

Journal of Vocational Behavior

This meta-analysis of career choice intervention is a replication of Brown and Ryan Krane's (2000) notable meta-analysis. This random-effects meta-analysis included 57 published and unpublished studies that produced a weighted mean effect size of 0.352. Seven separate meta-analyses were conducted for the outcomes of vocational identity, career maturity, career decidedness, career decision-making self-efficacy, perceived environmental support, perceived career barriers, and outcome expectations. Studies (k = 32) that utilized measures of career decision-making self-efficacy had the largest effect sizes with an average of 0.452. This effect size was homogeneous, but tentative moderator analyses were conducted. Counselor support appears to be a critical ingredient in career choice counseling. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.

Effectiveness of career choice interventions: A meta-analytic replication and extension