Dear colleagues,
my co-authors, Ute-Christine Klehe, Matthias Baum, and I are seeking unpublished and in-press studies for a meta-analysis on the antecedents and outcomes of career exploration.
We are mainly interested in studies that use measures which include at least a behavioral component of career exploration (i.e., no pure attitudinal measures, no pure intentional measures).
We have thoroughly searched the major electronic databases for relevant published literature. Now, we would like to include your recently published as well as unpublished empirical studies into our analyses. Therefore, we kindly ask for your help in identifying the following:
· Recently published studies (e.g., in the last 12 months)
· Unpublished data and manuscripts (e.g., in-press articles, dissertations, conference papers, posters, or presentation abstracts, working papers)
· Studies that may not have turned up when we searched for "career exploration", "vocational exploration", or "career curiosity" in any database field, but still incorporate this variable
We would be very thankful if you shared such papers or data with us. If you cannot send us a full paper, we would greatly appreciate it if you provided us with as much of the following information as possible:
· Design of your study (e.g., cross-sectional, longitudinal, time-lag if longitudinal, experimental)
· Sample size (on which the correlations / means / standard deviations are based)
· Sample characteristics (e.g., mean age and standard deviation, gender ratio, employment status, attended school type, organizational tenure, ethnicity, country in which the sample was collected, branch, job type)
· A full correlation matrix for your data (including coding information for correlations concerning categorical variables, such as gender)
· If possible (and reflected in the used measure), separate correlations for environmental exploration and self-exploration
· Means and standard deviations, at least for career exploration (preferably for all constructs; as well as information on scaling)
· Brief description and/or citation of the used scales
· Reliability coefficients for the used scales (preferably Cronbach's a)
· The way you would like your work to be cited
If any of this information is missing in your full paper but you do have it at hand, then it would be very helpful if you included it in your message as well.
This also holds true if you have conducted research on career exploration, but have not reported it separately, but instead as part of, e.g., a composite construct like "career adaptability" or "career development attitudes" (as measured in the Career Development Inventory), and would like this work to be included in our analyses.
Please send the aforementioned work/information to Maximilian Buyken (Maximilian.buyken@psychol.uni-giessen.de).
Once included in the database, we will of course cite your work in our study. We will treat your submitted papers and data as confidential, only use them in our analyses and will not distribute them.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us using the contact information below. If you would like to personally get in touch with us, you can meet us at this year's Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), FL. A good place to look for us – if you haven't found us beforehand – would be the session "A Wise Choice of a Vocation: Career Exploration and Identity" (CAR, OB, HR; http://program.aom.org/2013/submission.asp?mode=ShowSession&SessionID=884). We are looking forward to meeting you!
Please feel free to forward this call to your colleagues.
We highly appreciate your time and your help in advancing our knowledge on the role of career exploration.
Thank you in advance, best regards and apologies for cross-postings
Maximilian Buyken
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Maximilian Buyken, Dipl.-Psych.
Ph.D. Candidate
Justus Liebig University Giesen
Faculty 06 - Psychology and Sports Science
Work- and Organizational Psychology
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