Examined differences between students (N=64) who appraised their problem-solving skills as positive versus negative on two career indecision instruments. Subjects who perceived themselves as positive problem solvers were more confident about their decision-making ability and occupational potential and more likely to have related their abilities to…

Few studies have explicitly attended to the personal problem-solving process within the counseling literature, perhaps due in part to the dearth of relevant assessment instruments. To examine the dimensions underlying the applied problem-solving process, an exploratory factor analysis was conducted using data collected from four samples of college…

The personal problem-solving process can be functionally analyzed from a cognitive-behavioral perspective into at least four major performance classes: (1) decision making; (2) problem exploration, differentiation, and definition; (3) identification of response alternatives; and (4) performance of an intended solution response. The personal…