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The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to examine narrative responses of participants (n = 83) to the prompts of the career construction interview for manifest interests. We compared our analyzed results of narrative responses to participant Strong Interest Inventory-College Profile results to determine correlational strength. The results indicated a .27 overall correlation between the two assessments, demonstrating that some questions from the career construction interview are more and less effective in assessing manifest interests. Results from this study provide efficacy evidence for the combination of interest inventories and the career construction interview in assessing clients’ manifest interests.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of an Arabic version of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS) using a Jordanian sample. The sample included 233 Jordanian cit...

NASA has hundreds of non-code layered pressure vessel (LPV) tanks that hold various gases at pressure. Many of the NASA tanks were fabricated in the 1950s and 1960s and are still in use. An agency wide effort is in progress to assess the fitness for continued service of these vessels. Layered tanks typically consist of an inner liner/shell (often about 12.5 mm thick) with different layers of thinner shells surrounding the inner liner each with thickness of about 6.25-mm. The layers serve as crack arrestors for crack growth through the thickness. The number of thinner layers required depends on the thickness required for the complete vessel with most tanks having between 4 and 20 layers. Cylindrical layers are welded longitudinally with staggering so that the weld heat affected zones do not overlap. The built-up shells are then circumferentially welded together or welded to a header to complete the tank construction. This paper presents some initial results which consider weld residual stress and fracture assessment of some layered pressure vessels and is a small part of the much larger fitness for service evaluation of these tanks. This effort considers the effect of weld residual stresses on fracture for an inner layer longitudinal weld. All fabrication steps are modeled, and the high-level proof testing of the vessels has an important effect on the final WRS state. Finally, cracks are introduced, and service loading applied to determine the effects of WRS on fracture.

The life-design group (LDG) comprises an intervention designed to aid career specialists in helping groups of individuals work through career problems, transitions, and traumas. In this article, the authors describe the LDG and present case study results for 3 undergraduate students who were struggling with gaining movement in their career trajectories. Results indicated decreases in career uncertainty and indecision and increases in readiness for making academic major and career decisions. Although the LDG originated in a higher education setting, the LDG has application possibilities across the spectrum of career counseling clients.

Providing cost efficient, yet effective, student services, including career services, is a critical component in higher education. Career services must include the perspectives of the 21st-century work place. We advocate for the delivery of career development services in a group format using a narrative approach to career counseling with college students. Using career construction theory, we provide a framework for the Life Design Group and illustrate its use through a case vignette.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of an Arabic version of the Basic Adlerian Scales for Interpersonal Success–Adult Form using a Jordanian sample. The sample included 330 Jordanian citizens for whom Arabic is the native language. The results revealed three factors instead of the original five. The first factor included all items from the Belonging and Social Interest scale and nine items from the Wanting Recognition scale. All eight items of the Taking Charge scale, as well as one item from the Going Along scale, constituted the second factor. Finally, the third factor included seven items from the Being Cautious scale, two of the Going Along items, and one item from the Wanting Recognition scale.

The research based on attachment has shown that patterns of relating with primary caregivers in childhood and adolescence influence a person into adulthood, especially with regard to interpersonal relationships, including sexual intimacy. This study utilized a measure of adult parental attachment style to determine whether the perception of one’s patterns of relating with parental figures in childhood and one’s sexual attitudes are associated with unwanted sexual experiences, ranging from consensual unwanted sex and verbal coercion to more severe forms of coercion, including substance-related and physical coercion. The sample included 488 male and female college students, primarily in the age range of emerging adulthood. Analysis involved canonical correlation, which showed that individuals with avoidant parental attachment styles reported more occurrences of unwanted sex, with gender differences moderating the types of unwanted sex experienced. Of the sexual attitudes, permissiveness emerged as the strongest indicator of unwanted sexual experiences, at times interacting with avoidant attachment. Gender was a moderating variable. The authors conclude with practical implications and suggestions for future research.

Adults pursuing careers in counselor education, clinical mental health counseling, and counselor education (N = 256) participated in a study that examined relationships among archetypal identity development, meaning in life, and life satisfaction. Significant differences between groups existed for 5 archetypal identities, and meaning in life was significantly related to life satisfaction.