Diversity and career construction in higher education : the use of the repertory grid

Abstract

The goal of this study is to analyse of career personal construction of 118 college students (52.5% female and 47.5% male participants; Mages= 23.4; SD = 4.03). A constructivist technique adapted from “Repertory Grid” (Kelly, 1955), the Career Repertory Grid (GRC, Silva & Taveira, 2005) is used to assess how the students’ established relations between career constructs, identity features and relevant models for the construction of career identity. Results of the GRC are presented, for the total sample and for two individuals, a college woman and a college man. Implications of this study for practice and future research are discussed.