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exploring the relationship between intrapersonal intelligence and university students' career confusion: implications for counseling, academic success, and school‐to‐career transition
Author(s) -
Shearer C. Branton
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of employment counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2161-1920
pISSN - 0022-0787
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1920.2009.tb00067.x
Subject(s) - intrapersonal communication , confusion , psychology , career planning , career counseling , medical education , cognitive information processing , career education , career development , pedagogy , social psychology , vocational education , interpersonal communication , medicine , psychoanalysis
The author describes the relationship between self‐knowledge and career confusion among university students and discusses strategies to enhance career and academic planning. The multiple intelligences profiles of typical university students are compared with those of 82 students enrolled in 3 sequential semesters of a course titled Career Exploration at a large midwestern U.S. university. Low intrapersonal intelligence scores were found to be a significant characteristic of undergraduates with moderate and high levels of career confusion. Implications for counseling to promote successful school‐to‐career transitions are discussed.