%0 Journal Article %T Comparing the Effects of Vocational Personality and Career Construction Counseling on Children's Career Adaptability from the Life Design Perspective %J Applied Psychology %I Shahid Beheshti University %Z 2008-4331 %A karimi, malihe %A abedi, mohamadreza %A nilforoshan, parisa %D 2021 %\ 12/22/2021 %V 15 %N 4 %P 155-131 %! Comparing the Effects of Vocational Personality and Career Construction Counseling on Children's Career Adaptability from the Life Design Perspective %K Vocational Personality %K Career Construction %K Life Design Paradigm %K Career Adaptability %R 10.52547/apsy.2021.221848.1053 %X Aim: The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of career training based on vocational personality theory and career construction theory on children's career adaptability from the life design perspective. Method: The research design was quasi-experimental with the follow-up stage. The statistical population of the study was all primary school boys aged 13-10 years in the academic year of 2017-18 in Esfahan city among them 72 people were selected by purposive sampling method based on inclusion criteria and randomly divided into 3 groups of 24 individuals in the career intervention group based on job personality theory, career construction theory, and control group. The children in the experimental group participated in 8 sessions of 45 minutes, but the control group received no intervention. Participants responded to career adaptability scale-short form (Maggiori, Rossier, Svickas, 2015) in 3 stages. Research data were analyzed using analysis of variance with repeated measures. Results: The results showed that career counseling based on construction theory more effectively increases the career adaptability and the components of concern, control, and curiosity in male students while career counseling based on personality theory has only had a significant effect on the overall score of career path adaptation. Conclusion: According to the results, career construction counseling based on construction theory and counseling based on job personality theory can be used to design life patterns and adaptability of children's career trajectories. %U https://apsy.sbu.ac.ir/article_101532_c3436d6404bdd603daa5efe91fd63965.pdf