Jane L. Swanson’s research while affiliated with Southern Illinois University Carbondale and other places

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Publications (34)


Culture-centered career intervention
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June 2003

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161 Reads

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28 Citations

Journal of Vocational Behavior

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Jane L Swanson

Understanding Midcareer Development: From Whose Perspective?

March 2003

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58 Reads

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3 Citations

The Counseling Psychologist

By presenting their model of midcareer development, Power and Rothausen have turned counseling psychologists'attention to a set of lifespan career issues that have often been overlooked. I address three primary issues in this reaction to the model. First, their model highlights the unfortunate partitioning that has occurred in the study of career, resulting in a lack of communication and awareness across the multiple disciplines that focus on career issues. Second, a critical examination of their model indicates that it is not sufficiently connected to previous theory or research in vocational psychology, thereby undermining the model's potential utility. Third, the model is overly prescriptive, and appears to be focused on a narrowly defined group of individuals, further limiting the model's utility. Despite these limitations, Power and Rothausen's model does have implications for the theory, research, and practice of lifespan career development.


Culture-centered Career Intervention. [and] Diversity, Flexibility, and Career Interventions

January 2003

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265 Reads

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Includes two commentaries on the special section. Spokane, Fouad, and Swanson emphasize the importance of two dimensions of clients' cultural context: dominant/subordinate and individual/collective. Walsh highlights research needs related to career intervention and personality, culture, process, and socioeconomic status. (Contains 15 and 11 references respectively.) (SK)


Understanding the Complexity of Clients' Lives: Infusing a Truly Integrative Career-Personal Perspective into Graduate Training

November 2002

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25 Reads

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31 Citations

The Counseling Psychologist

This article discusses training issues related to the new paradigm proposed by Robitschek and DeBell, in which vocational topics in counseling psychology are viewed as primary issues and contextual factors in people’s lives. Specifically, the new paradigm is conceptualized as a truly integrative career-personal perspective in the training of delivery of counseling services. Existing literature regarding the overlap of career and social-emotional counseling is reviewed in the context of the new integrative paradigm, with particular focus on evidence related to foundational assumptions underlying the paradigm. Suggestions for how to implement a truly integrative career-personal perspective throughout graduate training are offered.


Applying Theories of Person-Environment Fit to the Transition From School to Work

June 1999

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60 Reads

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107 Citations

The Career Development Quarterly

This article describes potential contributions of theories of person-environment fit to understanding of the transition from school to work. The authors review basic assumptions of person-environment fit theories and how the theories can be applied to the school-to-work transition. An earlier version of this article was presented by the senior author at the 1997 annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.


Annual Review: Practice and Research in Career Counseling and Development—1997

December 1998

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18 Citations

The Career Development Quarterly

This article reviews literature published in 1997 related to career counseling and career development. The authors' review revealed that researchers and practitioners continue to productively contribute to a dynamic understanding of career-related issues. The literature was organized into 4 sections: career development throughout the life span, cultural and contextual factors, issues related to assessment, and theoretical advances.


Theory Into Practice in Career Assessment for Women: Assessment and Interventions Regarding Perceived Career Barriers

September 1997

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293 Citations

Journal of Career Assessment

This article discusses how theory may be translated into practice in assessing women's perceived career barriers. It describes a theoretical perspective that is useful in considering the construct of perceived barriers, namely, social cognitive career theory (Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994), and summarizes the empirical literature regarding barriers, with particular attention to practical applications of the evidence. It then discusses how counselors might assess women's perceived barriers during career counseling and possible counseling interventions to address clients' identified barriers.


Assessing Perceptions of Career-Related Barriers: The Career Barriers Inventory

March 1996

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530 Reads

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240 Citations

Journal of Career Assessment

The number and type of barriers that one perceives can be a limiting factor in career choice and implementation, and the construct of perceived career barriers has been increasingly recognized as an important and useful explanatory variable in research regarding career choice. This article addresses the assessment of career barriers and includes two foci. First, we describe the development and subsequent revisions of the Career Barriers Inventory (CBI; Swanson & Daniels, 1995c; Swanson & Tokar, 1991b) and summarize empirical evidence from studies using the CBI. Second, we discuss how the construct of perceived barriers relates to the recently articulated social cognitive model of career development (Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994) and offer some suggestions for research and practice regarding assessment of career barriers.


Dimensions Relating Holland's Vocational Personality Typology and the Five-Factor Model

December 1995

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35 Reads

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55 Citations

Journal of Career Assessment

This study examined the correspondence between two models of personality structure, both of which purport to be comprehensive: Holland's (1992) vocational personality typology and the five-factor model. In this research, 102 female and 91 male college students completed the Self-Directed Search (SDS; Holland, 1985a) and the NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI; Costa & McCrae, 1985). Results of canonical analyses revealed two dimensions to which SDS and NEO-PI variable sets were related for both females and males; however, the nature of the dimension pairs differed by gender. For females, significant overlap between SDS and NEO-PI domains was represented by a dimension characterized by a Nonpersonal Orientation at one pole and an Interpersonal Orientation at the other pole, and a Closedness-Openness dimension. For males, overlap between the two domains was explained by Closedness-Openness and Introversion-Extraversion dimensions. Results generally were consistent with theoretical definitions of the Big-Five personality dimensions, as well as the trait characterizations of the six Holland types. Results also revealed associations of Prediger's (1982) Data/Ideas and Things/People with the Closedness-Openness and Nonpersonal-Interpersonal dimensions, respectively.


Evaluation of the Correspondence between Holland′s Vocational Personality Typology and the Five-Factor Model of Personality

February 1995

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139 Citations

Journal of Vocational Behavior

We investigated the correspondence between two of the most prominent and heuristic models of personality structure: Holland′s (1985a) vocational personality typology and the five-factor model. Participants were 146 male and 213 female employed adults with well-defined Self-Directed Search (SDS; Holland, 1985b) profiles; they completed the SDS and the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (Form S) (NEO-FFI [Form S]; Costa & McCrae, 1992). Results of discriminant analyses revealed that two NEO-FFI (Form S) functions differentiated among Holland groups for samples of each gender. For males, the Big-Five dimensions which discriminated Holland types were Openness and Extraversion; for females, Openness, Extraversion, and Agreeableness constituted the functions which discriminated Holland groups. Results also revealed significant associations of Prediger′s (1982) Data/Ideas and Things/People dimensions with the Big-Five dimensions of Openness and a combination of Extraversion and Agreeableness, respectively. We conclude that Holland′s typology, as measured by the SDS, may correspond with a portion of the five-factor model; the dimensions of Openness and Extraversion seem particularly relevant. Finally, our results provide additional empirical support for the validity of Holland′s trait characterizations of the six vocational personality types.


Citations (30)


... He provided a three stage model or a three part framework for choosing a vocation wisely. It has been argued in some articles related to Parsons' contribution to the field of guidance that his framework and ideas could be applied even in the modern day counselling set up (Watts, 1994;McDaniels, 1994;Zytowski & Swanson, 1994;Taylor 1994& O'Brien, 2001. McDaniels (1994) and Taylor (1994) counsellors. ...

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Personality Traits, Vocational Interests and Career Maturity: A Correlational Study
Parsons' Contribution to Career Assessment
  • Citing Article
  • March 1994

Journal of Career Development

... Theorien zur Personen-Umwelt-Passung haben ihren Ursprung in der Arbeitspsychologie und basieren auf der Annahme, dass leistungsstarkes und zufriedenstellendes Arbeiten auf einer hohen Kongruenz zwischen individuellen Merkmalen und solchen der Arbeitsumgebung beruht (z. B. Swanson & Fouad, 1999). Übertragen auf den Bildungskontext wird entsprechend angenommen, dass eine gute Übereinstimmung individueller Bedürfnisse und Möglichkeiten mit den Anforderungen der Lernumgebung die akademische Leistung und das Wohlbefinden der Lernenden fördert. ...

Applying Theories of Person-Environment Fit to the Transition From School to Work
  • Citing Article
  • June 1999

The Career Development Quarterly

... L'ACQUISIZIONE DI SKILLS EDUCATIVE 207 Le skills possono essere definite come l'insieme di procedure e processi cognitivi che rendono possibile la capacità di eseguire bene le funzioni e le mansioni connesse con una professione. Si tratta di processi che devono essere appresi nel tempo e che consentono di trasferire efficacemente nel lavoro le conoscenze acquisite dai percorsi formativi (Swanson, 1995;Swanson, Parcover, 1998). Il tutor si occupa della formazione, della realizzazione e della crescita dell'altro, opera con una postura educativa e dirige, al tempo stesso, l'attenzione a sé 208 . ...

Annual Review: Practice and Research in Career Counseling and Development—1997
  • Citing Article
  • December 1998

The Career Development Quarterly

... In one study of career assessment practices, the SII was cited as the most frequently used interest measure by the sample of more than 600 counseling psychologists (Watkins, Campbell, & Nieberding, 1994). Furthermore, this measure has been utilized in numerous case studies of vocational behavior (e.g., Prince, 1998;Savickas, 1998;Swanson, 1992). ...

Generating Hypotheses From Rachel's Strong Profile
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  • September 1992

The Career Development Quarterly

... Helms (2005Helms ( , 2007 argues that reliability of the RIAS-B is influenced by the fact that the scales are multidimensional (i.e., they measure emotions, cognitions, and behaviors), and psychological processes such as social desirability may negatively influence reliability. Other scholars conclude that, in the case of Encounter, a status characterized by active identity confusion, relatively low reliability may reflect the complexities around the transitional phase this status captures (Boatswain & Lalonde, 2000;Ponterotto & Wise, 1987;Robinson, 2000;Yanico et al., 1994). ...

A Psychometric Investigation of the Black Racial Identity Attitude Scale-Form B
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  • April 1994

Journal of Vocational Behavior

... The relation between gender and vocational interests has been discussed extensively in the literature [5,12,20,25,27,[34][35][36]41]. Similarly to Lippa's work, some studies connected this with a broader idea of the connection between gender and personality traits [18,21,45]. ...

Gender Differences in the Structure of Interests
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  • April 1993

Journal of Vocational Behavior

... Vocational interest measures can be utilized in a wide variety of settings and with diverse populations, ranging from adolescent students thinking of possible career paths to older adults contemplating a change in occupation. In general, vocational interests have been found to be fairly stable over adulthood (Conley, 1984;Hansen & Stocco, 1980;Hansen & Swanson, 1983;Ho et al., 2018;Strong, 1951;Su, Rounds, & Armstrong, 2009;Swanson & Hansen, 1988), suggesting stability within individuals. Signi cant correlations found between vocational interests with age may re ect generational di erences in career interests and can be found when the sample's age range is large. ...

Stability of vocational interests over 4-Year, 8-Year, and 12-Year intervals
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  • October 1988

Journal of Vocational Behavior

... Where such a negative mental state can be traced to one's job or career, he/she is said to be suffering from career depression. While some authors have suggested that there exists an inextricable link between career problems and mental health concerns (Betz & Corning, 1993;Swanson, 2002), research on career depression remains relatively scarce. This may perhaps be attributed to its covert nature and the reluctance on the part of affected individuals to acknowledge their condition. ...

Understanding the Complexity of Clients' Lives: Infusing a Truly Integrative Career-Personal Perspective into Graduate Training
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  • November 2002

The Counseling Psychologist

... The Holland's vocational personality represents a construct of interest in research on couple compatibility because it fits into a large conception of personality based on six enduring dispositions (i.e., Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional) with respect to interests, competencies, personality traits, and values (Holland, 1997;Laudeman & Griffeth, 1978;Mount et al., 2005;Swanson, 1993). As similarities on backgrounds, values, and interests in romantic partners are likely to promote mutual reinforcement through conversations and activities, and to foster greater agreement in decisions (Jacobson & Christenson, 1996), the Holland's theory may be useful in explaining compatibility between romantic partners. ...

Integrated Assessment of Vocational Interests and Self-Rated Skills and Abilities
  • Citing Article
  • January 1993

Journal of Career Assessment