Her research interests include career self-efficacy theory, social
cognitive applications to career counseling and development, gen-
der and ethnicity in career counseling and career development, and
feminist approaches to counseling and therapy. She has served as
associate editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology,vice presi-
dent for Division E of the American Educational Research Associ-
ation, and vice president for scientific affairs of Division 17 of the
American Psychological Association. She is a fellow of Divisions
17 and 35 of the American Psychological Association.
Monica Kirkpatrick Johnsonis a postdoctoral fellow in the Carolina
Population Center at the University of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill. She received her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Min-
nesota in 1999. Her research interests include family and work,
social stratification, and the life course. She is particularly interested
in the social and psychological antecedents and consequences of
work experiences and adult attainment. Johnson’s current research
focuses on changes in job values during the transition to adulthood,
the consequences of adolescent employment, and the dynamic rela-
tionship between values and educational attainment.
Robert W. Lentis a professor of counseling psychology in the Depart-
ment of Counseling and Personnel Services, University of Mary-
land. He received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the
Ohio State University in 1979.
Lent has published extensively on applications of social cogni-
tive theory to academic and career behavior. His other research
interests include counselor training and development, psychologi-
cal wellness, relationship adjustment processes, and promotion of
health behaviors. Lent is a fellow of Division 17 (Counseling Psy-
chology) of the American Psychological Association and a recipi-
ent of the John L. Holland Award for Outstanding Achievement in
Career and Personality Research. He is coeditor, with S. D. Brown,
of the Handbook of Counseling Psychology.Along with M. L. Sav-
ickas, he also coedited Convergence in Career Development Theories:
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