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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction, Autonomous Motivation, and Meaningful Work: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective	35
Advancing the Conceptualization and Measurement of Psychological Need States: A 3 × 3 Model Based on Self-Determination Theory	24
Intolerance of Uncertainty, Anxiety, and Career Indecision: A Mediation Model	22
Assessing Perceived Future Decent Work Securement Among Chinese Impoverished College Students	20
Why Does Psychological Capital Foster Subjective and Objective Career Success? The Mediating Role of Career-Specific Resources	19
Critical Consciousness in Vocational Psychology: A Vision for the Next Decade and Beyond	16
Academia During the Time of COVID-19: Examining the Voices of Untenured Female Professors in STEM	16
Testing Psychology of Working Theory Among Spanish-Speaking Latinx Workers in the U.S.	16
The Role of Future Orientation and Negative Career Feedback in Career Agency and Career Success in Australian Adults	16
Decent Work Among People of Color: The Moderating Role of Critical Consciousness	15
Validation of the Chinese Version of the Multidimensional Workaholism Scale	15
How Decent Work Affects Affective Commitment Among Chinese Employees: The Roles of Psychological Safety and Labor Relations Climate	15
Dream Jobs and Employment Realities: How Adolescents’ Career Aspirations Compare to Labor Demands and Automation Risks	14
Called to Serve: Exploring the Relationship Between Career Calling, Career Plateaus, and Organizational Commitment in the U.S. Military	14
Emotional Efficacy Beliefs at Work and Turnover Intentions: The Mediational Role of Organizational Socialization and Identification	13
The Relationship Between Career Adaptability and Job-Search Self-Efficacy of Graduates: The Bifactor Approach	13
Centering Matrices of Domination: Steps Toward a More Intersectional Vocational Psychology	13
Development and Validation of the Career Crafting Assessment (CCA)	13
Examining Classism and Critical Consciousness Within Psychology of Working Theory	12
Career Calling and Task Performance: The Moderating Role of Job Demand	11
Validation of Work Need Satisfaction Scales Among Chinese Working Adults: A Psychology of Working Theory Perspective	10
Applying the Psychology of Working Theory for Understanding Adaptive Career Progress of Youth	10
An Examination of Psychology of Working Theory With Immigrant Workers in the United States	9
“More than a Job, it’s a Purpose”: A Psychology of Working Perspective of the Working Experiences for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities	9
Recommendations for Conceptualizing and Measuring Constructs Within Psychology of Working Theory	9

Openness to Experience and the Career Adaptability of Refugees: How Do Career Optimism and Family Social Support Matter?	9
The Positive Career Goal Discrepancy Scale: Development and Initial Validation	9
Career Goal Discrepancy, Career Distress, and Goal Adjustment: Testing a Dual Moderated Process Model in Young Adults	9
Test of a Social Cognitive Model of Proactive Career Behavior	9
Career Adaptability Development in the School-To-Work Transition	8
Subjective Career Success, Career Competencies, and Perceived Employability: Three-way Interaction Effects on Organizational and Occupational Turnover Intentions	8
The Multidimensional Workaholism Scale in a Korean Population: A Cross-Cultural Validation Study	8
Testing the Career Construction Model of Adaptation in a Sample of Afghanistan’s Working Adults: A Longitudinal Study	7
Economic Justice and Vocational Psychology: Towards Community Change	7
Profiles of Decent Work and Precarious Work: Exploring Macro-Level Predictors and Mental Health Outcomes	7
Do Unnecessary Tasks Impair Performance Because They Harm Living a Calling? Testing a Mediation in a Three-Wave Study	7
Understanding Contextual and Personality-Related Factors Predicting Student Career Certainty in Work Placement Learning	7
Career Development in Highly Sex-typed Postsecondary Vocational Technical Education Programs: A Social Cognitive Analysis	7
A Longitudinal Study of Relationships Between Vocational Graduates’ Career Adaptability, Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy, Vocational Identity Clarity, and Life Satisfaction	7
A Multiple Mediational Meta-Analysis of the Influence of Proactive Personality on Subjective Career Success at the Career Exploration Stage	7
A Multi-Group Study of Psychological Capital and Job Search Behaviours Among University Graduates With and Without Work Placement Learning Experience	7
How Dispositional Gratitude Shapes Employee Well-being and Organizational Commitment: The Mediating Roles of Leader-Member Exchange and Coworker Exchange	6
Prevalence and Demographic Differences in Work as a Calling in the United States: Results From a Nationally Representative Sample	6
College and Career Ready and Critically Conscious: Asset-Building With Latinx Immigrant Youth	6
The Relationship Between Parental Career-Related Factors and Adolescents’ Ambivalence in Career Decision-Making: A Longitudinal Mediation Study	6
Multicultural Vocational Research: Critique and Call to Action	6
Predicting Decent Work Among US Black Workers: Examining Psychology of Working Theory	6
Internship Experiences Among College Students Attending an HBC: A Longitudinal Grounded Theory Exploration	6
Living a Calling and Work–Family Interface: A Latent Profile Analysis	6
A Meta-Analytic Investigation of the Association Between Working Alliance and Outcomes of Individual Career Counseling	5
Career Adapt-Abilities Scale–Short Form: Validation among Portuguese University Students and Workers	5
How to Optimize the Job Search Process: Development and Validation of the Job Search Quality Scale	5
Factor Structure of the Vocational Identity Status Assessment (VISA) in University, Liberal Arts, and Community College Students	5
Development and Validation of the Career Identity Development Inventory	5
Interest Incongruence and Job Performance: Examining the Moderating Roles of Job Crafting and Positive Affect	5
The Structure of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire Across 13 Countries	5
The Super-Short Form of Career Adapt-Abilities Scale: Cross-Cultural Validation in China and the United Kingdom	5
A Process Model of Career Decision-Making and Adaptation Under Uncertainty: Expanding the Dual-Process Theory of Career Decision-Making	5
Experiencing Meaningful Work as a Lower Socioeconomic Status Worker: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis	5
Learning Goal Orientation and Academic Performance: A Dynamic model	5
Extending the Psychology of Working Model for Latinx Youth: Incorporating Youth Voice	5
Young Adults’ Self-Regulatory Responses to Positive Career Goal Discrepancies: Testing Cross-Lagged Relationships	4
Viewing the Joint Operation of Five Major Decision Difficulties Within the Dual-Process Theory of Career Decision-Making	4
Career Decision Self-Efficacy Mediates Social Support and Career Adaptability and Stage Differences	4
Service Workers’ Well-Being During COVID-19: A Strengths-Based Inclusive Theory of Work Perspective	4
Facilitating International Research on Career Indecision: Developing Career Indecision Profile-Short-5 in China and the U.S.	4
Measurement Invariance of the Occupational Engagement Scale – Student and Career Adapt-Abilities Scale across Veterans and Civilians	4
What Do Interest Inventories Measure? The Convergence and Content Validity of Four RIASEC Inventories	4
Instrumental Support, Relational Attachment, and Subjective Career Success: The Moderating Role of Personal Support	4
Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Tests of Social Cognitive Model of Well-Being in Korean College Students	3
I Can’t Quit: Experiences of Black Women in STEM Professions	3
Mind the Overlap: A Qualitative Exploration of the Vocational Lives of Veterans Living With Mental Health and Substance Use Conditions	3
Construction and Initial Validation of the Higher Education Orientations Questionnaire	3
Social Mobility and Vocational Outcomes: A Psychology of Working Perspective	3
Beyond-the-Self Callings: The Role of a Transcendent Summons for Undergraduates and Working Adults	3

The Relationship Between Parental Attachment and Career Aspirations in Indian Female Undergraduate Students	3
Social Cognitive Predictors of Music Majors’ Academic Well-Being and Persistence Intentions	3
Youth Perspectives on Decent Education and College and Career Readiness	3
Judging What Others Enjoy: Desirability and Observability of Interests	3
Understanding the Dysfunctionality of Dysfunctional Career Decision-Making Beliefs: Ambiguity Aversion as a General Mechanism	3
Academic Satisfaction of Women Students of Color in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Roles of Discrimination, Proactive Personality, and Critical Consciousness	3
Evidence for “Pushed Out” and “Opt Out” Factors in Women’s Career Inclusion Across the World of Work in the United States	3
The Work Intervention Network (WIN): Foundations of a Holistic Vocational Intervention	3
Kicking off a Gig Work Career: Unfolding a Career Learning Cycle of Gig Workers	2
Looking Ahead, Looking Around, and Looking to Others: Identifying Core Proactive Behaviors in the Quest for Career Sustainability	2
Reciprocal Effects of Career Adaptability and Occupational Self-Efficacy: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study With Varying Time Lags	2
Career-Related Teacher Support Scale: Validation Among Italian Adolescents and Assessment of the Effect on Career Decision Self-Efficacy Through Career Adaptability	2
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	2
Sustainable Career Trajectories in Switzerland: The Role of Psychological Resources and Sociodemographic Characteristics	2
After High School, What’s Next? Exploring Refugee Youths’ Perceptions and Preparations Around College Choice and Transition	2
Job Satisfaction of Turkish School Counselors: A Social Cognitive Career Theory Perspective	2
Outcomes of Decent Work Among Blue-Collar Workers in South Africa: The Role of Job Satisfaction	2
Decent Work and Self Determination Needs: Exploring Relational Workplace Civility as a Moderator	2
Competitive Psychological Climate in China: Scale Development and Validation	2
Beliefs About the Malleability of Professional Skills and Abilities: Development and Validation of a Scale	2
A Cross-Cultural Validation of Psychology of Working Theory With Turkish Working Adults	2
Careers in Disarray? COVID-19 and Self-Perceived Employability	2
Academic Majors and HEXACO Personality	2
Development of a Three-Dimensional Measure of the Calling Work Orientation: Assessing Craftsmanship, Kinship, and Serving	2
The Effect of Openness to Experience on Students’ Readiness for School-To-Work Transition	2