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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A Multi-Group Study of Psychological Capital and Job Search Behaviours Among University Graduates With and Without Work Placement Learning Experience	22
The Super-Short Form of Career Adapt-Abilities Scale: Cross-Cultural Validation in China and the United Kingdom	21
Longitudinal Patterns in Gender-Typed Career Interests and Career Stereotypes Among Boys and Girls in Middle Adolescence	21
Silent but Damaging: Exploring the Link Between Air Pollution and Vocational and General Well-Being	21
Career Construction Networks Among Junior and Senior High School Students	20
An Investigation of Work Precarity Among Paid Domestic Cleaning Workers in Switzerland	20
Reciprocal Effects of Career Adaptability and Occupational Self-Efficacy: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study With Varying Time Lags	19
Disentangling Underemployment and Precarious Work: A Latent Profile Analysis	18
A Social Cognitive Career Theory Study of Agricultural Mechanical Trade Workers	18
Antecedents and Outcomes of Positive Career Goal Progress Discrepancy Appraisal in Young Adults	18
Academic Majors and HEXACO Personality	17
Lockdown Stories: A Qualitative Assessment and Comprehensive Taxonomy of Career Resources	15
The Development and Validation of the Postgraduate School Application Outcome Expectations Scale	15
Protean Career Orientation and Career Success: On the Roles of Proactive Career Process During the School-To-Work Transition	13
Outcomes of Decent Work Among Blue-Collar Workers in South Africa: The Role of Job Satisfaction	13
The Multidimensional Workaholism Scale in a Korean Population: A Cross-Cultural Validation Study	12
Young Adults’ Self-Regulatory Responses to Positive Career Goal Discrepancies: Testing Cross-Lagged Relationships	12
The French Version of the Academic Major Satisfaction Scale: Structural, Convergent, and Divergent Validity	12
Openness to Experience and the Career Adaptability of Refugees: How Do Career Optimism and Family Social Support Matter?	12
Changes in U.S. Workers’ Values and Satisfaction After COVID-19	12
Exploring job seeker profiles through latent profile analysis	12
Career Calling and Task Performance: The Moderating Role of Job Demand	11
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
Centering Matrices of Domination: Steps Toward a More Intersectional Vocational Psychology	10

Development and Validation of the Online Proactive Career Behavior Scale	10
Interest Incongruence and Job Performance: Examining the Moderating Roles of Job Crafting and Positive Affect	9
Beliefs About the Malleability of Professional Skills and Abilities: Development and Validation of a Scale	9
From Adaptive Readiness to Adaptation Results Testing the Career Construction Model of Adaptation in Chinese Adolescents	9
Daily Environments During Emerging Adulthood and Gender Atypical Occupational Choices: The Role of Sexist Experiences	9
Subjective Career Success, Career Competencies, and Perceived Employability: Three-way Interaction Effects on Organizational and Occupational Turnover 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
College Career Courses and Growth Toward Vocational Identity Achievement Status	8
Kicking off a Gig Work Career: Unfolding a Career Learning Cycle of Gig Workers	8
A Multiple Mediational Meta-Analysis of the Influence of Proactive Personality on Subjective Career Success at the Career Exploration Stage	8
Does the Attainment of Vocational Aspirations Make Youths Happy?	8
Associations of Career Decision-Making Strategies With Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy and Difficulties Among French-Speaking Swiss Adolescents and Young Adults	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
Social Cognitive Predictors of Music Majors’ Academic Well-Being and Persistence Intentions	7
Why Does Psychological Capital Foster Subjective and Objective Career Success? The Mediating Role of Career-Specific Resources	6
Competitive Psychological Climate in China: Scale Development and Validation	6
Testing Psychology of Working Theory Among Spanish-Speaking Latinx Workers in the U.S.	6
Parental Career Expectation Predicts Adolescent Career Development Through Career-Related Parenting Practice: Transactional Dynamics Across High School Years	6
The Relationship Between Parental Career-Related Factors and Adolescents’ Ambivalence in Career Decision-Making: A Longitudinal Mediation Study	6
How to Optimize the Job Search Process: Development and Validation of the Job Search Quality Scale	6
Profiles of Decent Work and Precarious Work: Exploring Macro-Level Predictors and Mental Health Outcomes	6
From Perseverance of Effort to Perceived Employability in First-Generation College Students: The Mediating Role of Career Adaptability and Career Engagement	5
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
Test of a Social Cognitive Model of Proactive Career Behavior	5
Learning Goal Orientation and Academic Performance: A Dynamic model	5
Decent Work Profiles of Korean Workers: Antecedents and Outcomes of Profile Membership	5
Latent Profiles of Cultural Orientation in a Multicultural Country: Implications for Career Development	5
Examining Measurement Invariance of the Planning for Career and Family Scale (PLAN) Across Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and College Year Among Engineering College Students	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
Applying the Psychology of Working Theory for Understanding Adaptive Career Progress of Youth	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
Relative Importance of Work Need Satisfaction Among Working Adults in the United States and South Korea: A Cross-Cultural Study	4
Perceived Overqualification Among Therapists: An Experimental Study	4
A Bifactor Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling Representation of the Structure of the Decent Work Scale: Evidence from China	4
Decent Work and Self Determination Needs: Exploring Relational Workplace Civility as a Moderator	4
Examining the Dimensions, Predictors, and Outcomes of Work Capital	4
Careers in Disarray? COVID-19 and Self-Perceived Employability	4
Development and Validation of the Career Counseling Outcome Questionnaire in Two Clinical Settings	4
Job Desperation: Scale Development and Construct Validation	4
Gender, Racial-Ethnic, and Cohort Effects on STEM Interests: A Fourteen-Year Comparison	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
Racism at Work and Racial Identity of Black Graduates of Elite Universities: A Psychology of Working Perspective	4
Development of a Three-Dimensional Measure of the Calling Work Orientation: Assessing Craftsmanship, Kinship, and Serving	4
Measurement Invariance of the Occupational Engagement Scale – Student and Career Adapt-Abilities Scale across Veterans and Civilians	3
Predicting Decent Work Among US Black Workers: Examining Psychology of Working Theory	3
Exploring a Language-Based Interest Assessment: Predicting Vocational Interests on Social Media Using Natural Language Processing	3

Pre-Occupation: A Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression of Gender Differences in Adolescent Vocational Interests	3
Romanian Version of the Career Crafting Assessment: Psychometric Properties	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
Understanding Contextual and Personality-Related Factors Predicting Student Career Certainty in Work Placement Learning	3
Economic Justice and Vocational Psychology: Towards Community Change	3
The Structure of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire Across 13 Countries	3
An Examination of Psychology of Working Theory With Immigrant Workers in the United States	3
Boundary Control and Work-Life Balance: The Mediating Role of Interruptions and Moderating Effect of an Office Space	2
Youth Perspectives on Decent Education and College and Career Readiness	2
Dignity at Work: A Critical Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda	2
Motivational Career Resources and Subjective Career Success: A Test of Mediation and Moderation	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
Measurement Invariance of the Occupational Engagement Scale – Student and Career Adapt-Abilities Scale Across U.S. Veterans’ Employment Status	2
Chronicles of Involuntary Career Changes: A Qualitative Longitudinal Analysis	2
The Reciprocal Relationships Between Career Wisdom and Proactive Career Behavior	2
Service Workers’ Well-Being During COVID-19: A Strengths-Based Inclusive Theory of Work Perspective	2
How Decent Work Affects Affective Commitment Among Chinese Employees: The Roles of Psychological Safety and Labor Relations Climate	2
Choice Architecture and the Potential to Nudge Career Development at Scale	2
The Effect of Openness to Experience on Students’ Readiness for School-To-Work Transition	2
Stability and Predictive Validity of the Higher Education Orientations Questionnaire: A Three-Year Follow-Up	2
A Multidimensional Approach to Understanding Calling’s Paths to Well-Being Through Career Development	2