Customization and use of digital storytelling in providing online career counseling services to students with physical-motor disabilities: A mixed study.

Nowadays, students with disabilities suffer from various problems in entering the labor market and they need to receive career guidance services. This study was carried out in two parts of quantitative and qualitative with multiple purposes as a mixed design. In the qualitative part, challenges and problems of students in receiving career guidance and counseling were investigated and in the quantitative part, the effect of online career counseling on decreasing the challenges in receiving career counseling services by students with disabilities was studied. Moreover, in the quantitative part, the effect of online counseling on improving academic buoyancy, employability, and mental health of people with disabilities was investigated and its comparison with online career counseling based on digital storytelling was carried out. The qualitative part included 17 experts and students with disabilities and the quantitative part included 95 students with disabilities that were randomly assigned into experimental (i.e. digital storytelling and online career counseling) and control groups. The results of the qualitative part showed that students with disabilities suffer from various individual and social problems in receiving career counseling services. The results of the quantitative part showed that online career counseling with and without digital storytelling can solve the challenges against people with disabilities in receiving career guidance services to some extent. In the second part of quantitative results, it was indicated online career counseling with and without digital storytelling has a significant effect on academic buoyancy, employability, and mental health of students with disabilities and the use of digital storytelling in online counseling led to higher efficiency in employability and mental health.

Consequences of teleworking using the internet among married working women: Educational careers investigation.

Nowadays, women constitute a considerable part of employees in the society that according to the multiple roles that they play (mother, wife, employee), more flexibility is needed in their career affairs. This study aimed to investigate the effects of teleworking using the Internet on married working women working in educational settings (advantages and disadvantages of teleworking). For this purpose, this study includes qualitative and quantitative parts with samples including 16 and 404 married women working in educational settings (i.e. school and university). In the qualitative part that interviews were conducted with 16 married women who were selected as experts in educational occupations, the findings showed that teleworking brings six major advantages for women. These six advantages are economic, psychological, health, family, organizational, and educational. Moreover, when the qualitative part was ended, the researchers prepared a questionnaire according to the findings and selected 404 married and working women in educational settings to rate advantages and disadvantages of teleworking during Covid-19 pandemic and according to qualitative results, teleworking has disadvantages such as role conflict, lack of face-to-face position, and reworking. The quantitative results showed that participants' feedback was positive in six advantages and two variables of family and psychological were the most important variables among teleworking advantages (p < .05). According to the findings of this study, it can be concluded that teleworking has a considerable effect on family cohesion and psychological security of women. Therefore, according to the current status of the society (covid-19), facilities should be considered for married women.

Online career counseling success: the role of hardiness and psychological capital.

Online career counseling is an important new horizon for vocational guidance. The present study investigates the role of online career counseling and of psychological capital and hardiness on career decision making. The research population included all Tehran students in 2019. After random selection, 30 students each were assigned into either the online counseling group or the control group. After online counseling, intervention students had higher scores than the control group on career decision-making. In the intervention group (but not the control group), students with higher hardiness and psychological capital had higher scores on career decision-making.

Succès de l'orientation professionnelle en ligne: Le rôle de la hardiesse et du capital psychologique L'orientation professionnelle en ligne représente un nouvel horizon important pour l'orientation professionnelle. La présente étude examine le rôle de l'orientation professionnelle en ligne, ainsi que du capital psychologique et la hardiesse dans le processus de décision de carrière. La population étudiée comprend tous les étudiants de Téhéran en 2019. Après une sélection aléatoire, 30 étudiant·e·s ont chacun été répartis soit dans le groupe de counseling en ligne, soit dans le groupe contrôle. Après avoir suivi le counseling en ligne, les étudiant·e·s du groupe d'intervention ont obtenus des résultats plus élevés que le groupe contrôle sur la prise de décision de carrière. Dans le groupe d'intervention (mais pas dans le groupe contrôle), les étudiant·e·s avec une plus grande hardiesse et capital psychologique ont obtenu des scores plus élevés sur la prise de décision de carrière.

Éxito de la orientación profesional on-line: El papel de la resistencia y el capital psicológico La orientación par el desarrollo de la carrera on-line supone un nuevo e importante horizonte para la orientación profesional El presente estudio investiga el papel de la orientación profesional on-line y del capital psicológico y la resistencia en la toma de decisiones de carrera. La población investigada incluyó a todos los estudiantes de Teherán en 2019. Después de realizar un muestreo aleatorio, 30 estudiantes fueron asignados al grupo de orientación on-line o al grupo de control. Después de la orientación on-line, los estudiantes con los que se había realizado la intervención obtuvieron puntuaciones más altas que el grupo de control en la toma de decisiones de carrera profesional. En el grupo de intervención (pero no en el grupo de control), los estudiantes con mayor resistencia y capital psicológico obtuvieron mejores puntuaciones en la toma de decisiones sobre carrera profesional.