Occupational engagement scale-student: Psychometric properties in Turkish university students

Young adults pursue a career path in the face of many barriers, such as financial worries and parental influences. Engaging in occupational behaviours enables them to know themselves and the world better, and also provides them with opportunities to have experiences that help them decide on a career. This study adapts the Occupational Engagement Scale-Student (OES-S) into Turkish and examines its psychometric properties in a university sample. Participants consisted of 304 university students (149 females and 155 males). Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the original unidimensional factor structure of the OES-S. For discriminant and concurrent validity, significant relationships were found between the OES-S and subscales of the Career Decision Scale. The internal consistency coefficient (Cronbach's alpha) was .80. The results indicated that the OES-S could be considered as a valid and reliable tool to measure the occupational engagement of young adults

Determining the Profession's Ethical Requirements in School Psychological Counseling Services

The purpose of this research is to determine school psychological counselors' perspectives on professional ethics knowledge and skills, the requirements, and their opinions related to ethical problems encountered in the profession and ways of solving them. The research has been formed using the phenomenological design, a qualitative research design, and uses a semi-structured open-ended interview form. Categorical analysis, a type of content analysis, has been used in analyzing the data. Interviews have been conducted with 40 school counselors working in different educational institutions. The results reveal school psychologists' ethical knowledge and skills to be important in terms of the effective functioning of psychological counseling services. Helping the psychological counseling and guidance (PCG) specialist to be able to apply ethical principles and being competent in providing ethical service in the PCG specialist's field have been determined as requirements for the training managers. The most frequently experienced ethical problem appears as confidentiality: In other words, this has been experienced on the topic of ensuring client's privacy and in showing unconditional acceptance towards different cultures. The main ethical principle that should be applied has emerged as the need to provide confidentiality. Collegial assistance has been sought after in dealing with ethical problems. According to the results, the requirement of receiving education on how to regulate the ethical principles that need to be followed in school PCG services as well as how to deal with the ethical principles and problems of educational administrators' psychological counseling services by using school PCG specialists is recommended