Abstract

The purpose of this study is to discover the effects of group career counseling based on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. For this study, one experimental group and three control groups, composed of 48 students in total, were organized and treatment was conducted on these groups. The experimental group, composed of 13 college students, attended group career counseling based on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. Control group one, composed of 10 college students, received assertiveness training and general psychological group counseling. Control group two, composed of 12 college students, received general group career counseling. Control group three, composed of 13 college students, received only lectures on the theories of career development. Treatment lasted for an eight-week period. In each week, a two-hour-long session was conducted. These four groups turned out to be all homogeneous by F-test pretesting. Self-efficacy scale, scale of interpersonal relations, career maturity attitude scale and decision-making style scale were the instruments used to measure the effects of the treatment. The two way analysis of variance was employed to find differences among groups after treatments. The experimental group showed significant differences statistically compared with the other three control groups in self-efficacy score, interpersonal relations, career maturity attitude, and decision-making style. These results imply that group career counseling based on REBT enhances self-efficacy, the ability of interpersonal relations, career maturity attitude and rational decision making which are major factors in career development.