OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Career Assessment is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A Multi-Group Study of Psychological Capital and Job Search Behaviours Among University Graduates With and Without Work Placement Learning Experience	49
Silent but Damaging: Exploring the Link Between Air Pollution and Vocational and General Well-Being	20
Longitudinal Patterns in Gender-Typed Career Interests and Career Stereotypes Among Boys and Girls in Middle Adolescence	20
The Super-Short Form of Career Adapt-Abilities Scale: Cross-Cultural Validation in China and the United Kingdom	20
An Investigation of Work Precarity Among Paid Domestic Cleaning Workers in Switzerland	19
Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction, Autonomous Motivation, and Meaningful Work: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective	19
Career Construction Networks Among Junior and Senior High School Students	19
Reciprocal Effects of Career Adaptability and Occupational Self-Efficacy: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study With Varying Time Lags	17
Academic Majors and HEXACO Personality	17
Lockdown Stories: A Qualitative Assessment and Comprehensive Taxonomy of Career Resources	17
The Development and Validation of the Postgraduate School Application Outcome Expectations Scale	17
Disentangling Underemployment and Precarious Work: A Latent Profile Analysis	16
Outcomes of Decent Work Among Blue-Collar Workers in South Africa: The Role of Job Satisfaction	14
Antecedents and Outcomes of Positive Career Goal Progress Discrepancy Appraisal in Young Adults	14
Young Adults’ Self-Regulatory Responses to Positive Career Goal Discrepancies: Testing Cross-Lagged Relationships	13
Protean Career Orientation and Career Success: On the Roles of Proactive Career Process During the School-To-Work Transition	13
A Social Cognitive Career Theory Study of Agricultural Mechanical Trade Workers	13
Exploring job seeker profiles through latent profile analysis	12
From Adaptive Readiness to Adaptation Results Testing the Career Construction Model of Adaptation in Chinese Adolescents	12
Openness to Experience and the Career Adaptability of Refugees: How Do Career Optimism and Family Social Support Matter?	12
Centering Matrices of Domination: Steps Toward a More Intersectional Vocational Psychology	12
The Multidimensional Workaholism Scale in a Korean Population: A Cross-Cultural Validation Study	12
Changes in U.S. Workers’ Values and Satisfaction After COVID-19	12
The French Version of the Academic Major Satisfaction Scale: Structural, Convergent, and Divergent Validity	12
18REST-2: A Revised Measure of the RIASEC Model for Large-Scale Assessment With Students	11

I Can’t Quit: Experiences of Black Women in STEM Professions	11
Interest Incongruence and Job Performance: Examining the Moderating Roles of Job Crafting and Positive Affect	11
Development and Validation of the Online Proactive Career Behavior Scale	11
Career Calling and Task Performance: The Moderating Role of Job Demand	10
Daily Environments During Emerging Adulthood and Gender Atypical Occupational Choices: The Role of Sexist Experiences	10
A Multiple Mediational Meta-Analysis of the Influence of Proactive Personality on Subjective Career Success at the Career Exploration Stage	9
Beliefs About the Malleability of Professional Skills and Abilities: Development and Validation of a Scale	9
College Career Courses and Growth Toward Vocational Identity Achievement Status	9
Subjective Career Success, Career Competencies, and Perceived Employability: Three-way Interaction Effects on Organizational and Occupational Turnover Intentions	9
Kicking off a Gig Work Career: Unfolding a Career Learning Cycle of Gig Workers	8
Does the Attainment of Vocational Aspirations Make Youths Happy?	8
Social Cognitive Predictors of Music Majors’ Academic Well-Being and Persistence Intentions	8
Reconstructing Stories of Career Adaptability Through the Integrative Structured Interview for Undergraduate University Students	8
Interest Fit Beyond the RIASEC: The Comprehensive Assessment of Basic Interests—O*NET (CABIN-NET)	8
Competitive Psychological Climate in China: Scale Development and Validation	7
Facilitating International Research on Career Indecision: Developing Career Indecision Profile-Short-5 in China and the U.S.	7
Instrumental Support, Relational Attachment, and Subjective Career Success: The Moderating Role of Personal Support	7
Associations of Career Decision-Making Strategies With Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy and Difficulties Among French-Speaking Swiss Adolescents and Young Adults	7
Profiles of Decent Work and Precarious Work: Exploring Macro-Level Predictors and Mental Health Outcomes	6
Why Does Psychological Capital Foster Subjective and Objective Career Success? The Mediating Role of Career-Specific Resources	6
The Relationship Between Parental Career-Related Factors and Adolescents’ Ambivalence in Career Decision-Making: A Longitudinal Mediation Study	6
Parental Career Expectation Predicts Adolescent Career Development Through Career-Related Parenting Practice: Transactional Dynamics Across High School Years	6
Examining Measurement Invariance of the Planning for Career and Family Scale (PLAN) Across Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and College Year Among Engineering College Students	6
Testing Psychology of Working Theory Among Spanish-Speaking Latinx Workers in the U.S.	6
How to Optimize the Job Search Process: Development and Validation of the Job Search Quality Scale	6
Validation of Work Need Satisfaction Scales Among Chinese Working Adults: A Psychology of Working Theory Perspective	5
Career Adapt-Abilities Scale–Short Form: Validation among Portuguese University Students and Workers	5
Judging What Others Enjoy: Desirability and Observability of Interests	5
Decent Work Profiles of Korean Workers: Antecedents and Outcomes of Profile Membership	5
Learning Goal Orientation and Academic Performance: A Dynamic model	5
From Perseverance of Effort to Perceived Employability in First-Generation College Students: The Mediating Role of Career Adaptability and Career Engagement	5
Test of a Social Cognitive Model of Proactive Career Behavior	5
Predicting Outcomes of a Manualized Individual Career Counseling Intervention Over a One-Year Follow-Up From Trajectories of Change in Career Decision Difficulties	4
Gender, Racial-Ethnic, and Cohort Effects on STEM Interests: A Fourteen-Year Comparison	4
Development of a Three-Dimensional Measure of the Calling Work Orientation: Assessing Craftsmanship, Kinship, and Serving	4
Trajectories of Change in Career Decision Difficulties During a Manualized Individual Career Counseling Intervention: The Influence of Counselor Adherence, Working Alliance and Client Personality Trai	4
Job Desperation: Scale Development and Construct Validation	4
Decent Work and Self Determination Needs: Exploring Relational Workplace Civility as a Moderator	4
Careers in Disarray? COVID-19 and Self-Perceived Employability	4
Relative Importance of Work Need Satisfaction Among Working Adults in the United States and South Korea: A Cross-Cultural Study	4
Do Unnecessary Tasks Impair Performance Because They Harm Living a Calling? Testing a Mediation in a Three-Wave Study	4
“More than a Job, it’s a Purpose”: A Psychology of Working Perspective of the Working Experiences for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities	4
A Bifactor Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling Representation of the Structure of the Decent Work Scale: Evidence from China	4
Examining the Dimensions, Predictors, and Outcomes of Work Capital	4
Racism at Work and Racial Identity of Black Graduates of Elite Universities: A Psychology of Working Perspective	4
Applying the Psychology of Working Theory for Understanding Adaptive Career Progress of Youth	4
Development and Validation of the Career Counseling Outcome Questionnaire in Two Clinical Settings	3
Development and Validation of the “Career Confidence for Activities in the Future” to Assess Italian Adolescents’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Handling Global Challenges	3
An Examination of Psychology of Working Theory With Immigrant Workers in the United States	3
Pre-Occupation: A Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression of Gender Differences in Adolescent Vocational Interests	3

Economic Justice and Vocational Psychology: Towards Community Change	3
The Structure of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire Across 13 Countries	3
Development and Validation of the Career Crafting Assessment (CCA)	3
Predicting Decent Work Among US Black Workers: Examining Psychology of Working Theory	3
Youth Perspectives on Decent Education and College and Career Readiness	3
Measurement Invariance of the Occupational Engagement Scale – Student and Career Adapt-Abilities Scale across Veterans and Civilians	3
Perceived Overqualification Among Therapists: An Experimental Study	3
Romanian Version of the Career Crafting Assessment: Psychometric Properties	3
Exploring a Language-Based Interest Assessment: Predicting Vocational Interests on Social Media Using Natural Language Processing	3
Understanding Contextual and Personality-Related Factors Predicting Student Career Certainty in Work Placement Learning	3
Measurement Invariance of the Occupational Engagement Scale – Student and Career Adapt-Abilities Scale Across U.S. Veterans’ Employment Status	3
The Effect of Openness to Experience on Students’ Readiness for School-To-Work Transition	2
Dignity at Work: A Critical Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda	2
Career Development in Highly Sex-typed Postsecondary Vocational Technical Education Programs: A Social Cognitive Analysis	2
Service Workers’ Well-Being During COVID-19: A Strengths-Based Inclusive Theory of Work Perspective	2
The Reciprocal Relationships Between Career Wisdom and Proactive Career Behavior	2
How Decent Work Affects Affective Commitment Among Chinese Employees: The Roles of Psychological Safety and Labor Relations Climate	2
Chronicles of Involuntary Career Changes: A Qualitative Longitudinal Analysis	2
A Longitudinal Examination of Four Processual Mechanisms in Career Decision Making	2
Disentangling Social Class and Classism on Work Capital Among College Students	2
Choice Architecture and the Potential to Nudge Career Development at Scale	2
Motivational Career Resources and Subjective Career Success: A Test of Mediation and Moderation	2
A Multidimensional Approach to Understanding Calling’s Paths to Well-Being Through Career Development	2
Stability and Predictive Validity of the Higher Education Orientations Questionnaire: A Three-Year Follow-Up	2