Papers by Sandro M Sodano
Encyclopedia of Career Development, Mar 13, 2013
Journal of Vocational Behavior, Feb 1, 2011
Journal of Vocational Behavior, Aug 1, 2011
ABSTRACT Vocational interests and interpersonal dispositions have been well researched in adults ... more ABSTRACT Vocational interests and interpersonal dispositions have been well researched in adults from the perspectives of Holland's RIASEC (1997) model of interests and the Interpersonal Circumplex (IPC), respectively. Few studies have applied either model to children and no studies have examined their overlap in children. A vector fitting procedure was applied to data from adults to demonstrate the intersection of vocational interests and interpersonal dispositions from the perspective of the IPC. The same procedure was then applied to interests and competencies and interpersonal dispositions in a sample of sixth grade children. Plotting the vocational variables within interpersonal space defined by the IPC showed the specific interpersonal aspects of vocational interests in young adults and interests and competencies in late childhood. Half of the interests had associations with the IPC that were consistent across adults and children, while the remaining interests had associations that were unique to children.
Journal of Vocational Behavior, Feb 1, 2009
Abstract The Medical Specialty Preference Inventory (MSPI; Zimny, G.H. (1979). Manual for the Med... more Abstract The Medical Specialty Preference Inventory (MSPI; Zimny, G.H. (1979). Manual for the Medical Specialty Preference Inventory. St. Louis, MO: St. Louis University School of Medicine), a measure of medical students’ interests, was substantively and empirically examined to identify an underlying factor structure. A factor model for the original MSPI based on 38 factors in five general areas was evaluated on a national sample of 1014 medical students and yielded poor fit to the data. Exploratory factor analyses at the item level utilizing the full pool of MSPI items produced an 11 factor solution with 88 items. Sub-scales were identified within this model and an 11–18 higher-order model and an 18 sub-scale model also were proposed. The relative fits of the three models were evaluated by confirmatory factor analysis with the 18 sub-scale model shown to be superior. This model was cross-validated on a separate sample of 1016 medical students and fit the data well. All sub-scales exhibited adequate internal consistency across samples. These findings support the need for a revised MSPI based on 18 scales. Implications of these findings for MSPI scoring practices are discussed along with future directions.
SAGE Publications, Inc. eBooks, Dec 16, 2017
Psychology in the Schools
Educational impairments associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have prev... more Educational impairments associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have previously been researched. However, much less is known about occupational-related functional impairments that adversely impact young adults with ADHD. During high school and early-college years, this demographic is particularly vulnerable to frequent job changes, and these negative trends can have enduring detrimental career impacts. As young adults with ADHD transition to the workforce (e.g., either in entry-level jobs, often within the food service sector, or similar earlycareer occupations), it is important to understand intervention protocols that can serve as an effective support for reducing occupational impairment. To this end, we have developed the Live-Virtual-Constructive (LVC) Laboratory Assessment of Behavior in Occupational Roles (LABOR) analog workplace setting, designed to approximate a (Live) pizzeria Training environment with a (Virtual) simulated food delivery environment ...
School Mental Health, 2016
Abstract This study examined the mediating effect of anxiety and its subtypes on the relation bet... more Abstract This study examined the mediating effect of anxiety and its subtypes on the relation between peer victimization and eating disorder risk and how this mechanism may be contingent on gender. Data were analyzed from 1391 male and female children between the ages of 10 and 14. Measures used include: the Eating Disorder Inventory-3, the School Climate and Bullying Scale, and the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children. It appears that the increase in anxiety associated with being bullied partly explains why peer victimization is related to eating disorder symptoms for the anxiety symptom clusters of physical symptoms, social anxiety symptoms, and separation anxiety symptoms but not for harm avoidance symptoms. This present study further explored the development of eating disorders across genders using moderated mediation analysis, which found gender differences for physical symptoms of anxiety, social anxiety symptoms, and overall anxiety symptoms when such anxiety symptoms were studied as a mediating variable using an exploratory model of moderating mediation (i.e., first- and second-stage moderated mediation). Here, both the effect of peer victimization on these symptoms of anxiety and the effect of these anxiety types on eating disorder symptoms were greater for girls than for boys, while no gender differences were found with harm avoidance and separation anxiety symptoms in this model. This study was the first to identify a significant mediating effect of different types of anxiety symptoms on peer victimization and eating disorder risk as well as ways in which boys and girls appear to be similar with regard to these mechanisms as well as different. Findings highlight the importance of considering interpersonal vulnerabilities of the victim in selecting intervention efforts. In addition to intrapersonal strategies aimed at reducing bystander behavior and increasing assertiveness, school-based interventions for victims of bullying should also assess victims for anxiety and support the development of healthy coping skills.
Psychotherapy Research, 2013
Non-Parametric IRT methods were applied to 127 clinicians&amp... more Non-Parametric IRT methods were applied to 127 clinicians' ratings of their patients using the Dutch Impact Message Inventory-Circumplex (IMI-C) to develop the IMI-C Short. Four items from each octant subscale of the IMI-C were selected to maximally differentiate individuals along the continuum of impact messages. Using larger samples (patients: N = 700, 812; raters: N = 42, 85, respectively), IRT-based reliability was generally comparable between the brief and parent subscales. Classical Test Theory-based reliability was adequate for the brief subscales and they converged with their parent subscales. Since the IMI-C is purported to represent the circular arrangement of impact messages, the fits of the parent and abbreviated scales were assessed and found to be good and not differ significantly. The new IMI-C Short offers advantages over the full-length IMI-C.
Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2012
Many multicultural scholars agree that mental health providers lack the necessary sensitivity, kn... more Many multicultural scholars agree that mental health providers lack the necessary sensitivity, knowledge, and skills to effectively address the needs of Native Americans (LaFromboise, Trimble, & Mohatt, 1998). As one of the most marginalized racial groups in the United States, Native Americans continue to face many challenges. Constant and persistent contact with White culture, through forced relocation, boarding schools, and displacement to urban areas, created daily pressure for Native Americans to give up their distinct cultural identities, beliefs, and practices and adapt to the dominant culture (Choney, Berryhill-Paapke, & Robbins, 1995; Duran, 2006). The long-term effects of such neglect, harm, and cultural devastation led to diminished trust in counseling services and government programs, profound intergenerational trauma, and ongoing identity conflicts (Duran, 2006). Understanding the process of acculturation, which diminished Native American cultural values and traditions (Horse, 2001), is essential for counselors to be culturally effective with Native American clients (Choney et al., 1995; Duran, 2006). Limited attention to the experiences of Native Americans within the training of counselors and psychologists has created a profession ill prepared to fully comprehend and address the unique identity and acculturation challenges facing Native Americans. Despite the importance of acculturation and its influence on Native Americans, there is limited research on acculturation with this group and few tools available for assessment. A recent review of 22 years of acculturation research by Yoon, Langrehr, and Ong (2011) indicated the importance of acculturation research, particularly with respect to acculturation models and assessment. However, the majority of research conducted included Latino/a Americans and Asian Americans; therefore, most advancements in 28330M ECXXX10.
Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
Prestige has been demonstrated to be a component in interest assessment [Tracey, T. J. G. (1997).... more Prestige has been demonstrated to be a component in interest assessment [Tracey, T. J. G. (1997). The structure of interests and self-efficacy expectations: An expanded examination of the spherical model of interests. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 44, 32–43; Tracey, T. J. G. (2002). Personal Globe Inventory: Measurement of the spherical model of interests and competence beliefs [Monograph]. Journal of Vocational
Journal of Personality Assessment, 2011
Nonparametric item response theory methods were applied to the responses of 1,000 college student... more Nonparametric item response theory methods were applied to the responses of 1,000 college students on the 64 items of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems-Circumplex (IIP-C; Alden, Wiggins, & Pincus, 1990) to develop an abbreviated 32-item version of the instrument. In a separate validation sample of 981 students, the newly selected scale items did not show evidence of differential item functioning across males and females. There was high convergence found between the new scales and IIP-C parent scales, along with commensurate or improved fits to the circular structural model relative to the full scale and its existing brief derivatives-the IIP-32 and the IIP-SC. Results provide evidence that the new brief scales can improve the level of precision and information yielded in brief assessments of interpersonal problems without gender bias.
Journal of Personality Assessment, 2006
The Child and Adolescent Interpersonal Survey (CAIS) consists of interpersonal trait descriptions... more The Child and Adolescent Interpersonal Survey (CAIS) consists of interpersonal trait descriptions that were generated to represent the constructs of the Interpersonal Circumplex model utilizing language accessible to children in a brief self-report format. Scale development entailed examining the structure at the item and scale levels with a sample of children (fourth and sixth graders) and at the scale level with college students. Internal consistency estimates for the majority of the CAIS scales were adequate given the brevity of the scales. The fits to the circular order model for the CAIS were very well supported across the child and adult samples, with no significant differences in the fit of the model across these samples. Generally strong associations were found between corresponding scales of the CAIS and the Interpersonal Adjective Scales in a college sample, and there were many structural similarities between these measures. For the child sample, the CAIS scales of Gregarious-Extraverted and Warm-Agreeable related strongly to corresponding Five-factor scales, and remaining scales related minimally to moderately.
Handbook of Group Counseling & Psychotherapy
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