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This study assessed the effects of two individual career counseling interventions during the COVID‐19 pandemic over a 1‐year follow‐up. Participants (n = 71) engaged either in four individual humanistic–psychodynamic (during winter 2021) or cognitive career counseling (during winter 2022) sessions at a university counseling clinic. Latent growth models indicated that clients experienced a significant reduction in their career decision difficulties and psychological distress and a significant increase in their life satisfaction over sessions and the 12 months following. Clients who received cognitive career counseling sessions experienced larger effects. Results highlight the utility of individual career counseling in times of crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The most recent version of the widely used NEO Inventories, the NEO-PI-3, has been translated in several languages worldwide, including Canadian French. Probably the main criticism of the validity NEO-PI-3 has to do with the confirmation of its factor structure in confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The present study aimed to assess the structural validity of the NEO-PI-3 at the full model level, testing the original model as well as alternative more complex models. Single-factor models at the trait level, and at the basic measurement (facet) level, were also tested. French-Canadian data from real-life settings were analyzed (n = 1313). None of the three full models tested with CFA reached acceptable fit. However, acceptable fit for the oblique full model was reached in the unrestricted framework of partial confirmatory factor analysis (PCFA). Yet, the PCFA revealed substantive crossloadings between Extraversion and Agreeableness facets. Only single-factor models of Neuroticism and Conscientiousness evidenced good model fit, and thirteen of the thirty facets showed acceptable fit. Further analyses indicated that poor model fit for the facets could be explained by high covariances between item measurement errors. The inadequate model fit of the NEO-PI-3 seems to be due to the complexity of the model and to model misspecifications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: To describe symptomatology and specific psychological, social, and academic adaptation in adolescents with depressive disorder and comorbid disruptive behaviour disorder, as well as their family situation. Method: Using binomial logistic regressions, this study compares adolescents with depressive disorder and comorbid disruptive behaviour disorder (n = 25) with adolescents with the same behaviour problems but no comorbid depressive disorder (n = 99). Sex-specific interaction impacts are examined. Results: While both groups have several similar characteristics, youth with a dual diagnosis have more oppositional symptoms and poorer self-esteem. Analyses show no interaction impact from sex variable. Conclusions: Adolescents in both groups would benefit from similar interventions regarding disruptive behaviour disorders and some related problems, such as using psychoactive drugs, socializing with delinquent peers, and difficulty functioning in school. Adolescents with a comorbid depressive disorder need special attention, given the more significant oppositional symptomatology and the poorer self-esteem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]