| Summary: | 博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育心理與輔導學系 === 97 === The purpose of the study was to construct a strength-centered career adjustment model for counseling dual-career women and to validate its effects. For which purpose, two studies are conducted. Study one aimed to construct a counseling model, and study two purposed to validate the model. Study one adopted task analysis approach, in which 10 participants received 6-8 counseling sessions. Participants of this study included 10 dual-career women, aged between 28 to 47 years old (M= 38.8). Materials obtained from the two measurements were analyzed and compared by the qualitative method of discovery–oriented psychotherapy research. Based on the analyses, a model containing four theme categories and ten themes were constructed. The strength-centered counseling protocol for dual career females was then proposed.
In study two, the triangulation design in mixed methods research was adopted to investigate the effectiveness of the strength-centered counseling model. In terms of quantitative research, the main objective was to explore the impacts of the counseling model on life satisfaction. Participants of this study included 28 dual-career women, aged between 28 to 47 years old (M= 35.5, SD=4.33). In this study, the equivalent pretest-posttest control group design was applied. The experimental treatment, that is, the intervention, was independent variable, and life satisfaction was the dependent variable. Twenty-eight participants were randomly assigned to the experimental group and the control group. Participants in the experimental group received the strength-centered career adjustment model constructed in this research, while the participants in control group were asked to complete the “Inventory for Family Roles Beliefs”. Prior the experimental treatment, participants in both groups all completed the “Inventory for Work/Family Satisfaction and Balance”, and the data obtained from which are analyzed by single factor design ANCOVA with SPSS software. Results indicated that the counseling model was effective in promoting life satisfaction in terms of self growth initiative and sense of happiness. In terms of work satisfaction, however, was validated. On the other hand, qualitative research method was applied to further investigate the subjective experiences of the 14 participants in the experimental group to understand the counseling processes and content of therapeutic agents of this model. Participants were interviewed after receiving counseling, and materials obtained from the interviews were analyzed by grounded theory methodology. The results indicated four aspects that influence counseling processes: internal readiness of individual, counseling intervention, influences from external events, and therapeutic agents. Among which, therapeutic factors can be further categorized to the level of cognition, emotion and behavior of individual’s internal self system; self/other relation and career of external contextual system; and the level of coping strategies and self-efficacy of coordinate system. According to the outcomes, a model of change mechanism on counseling processes and therapeutic agents were then provided. Finally, findings in this research were discussed and implications and recommendations for practice and future study were also provided.
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