Comparison Effectiveness Stability in Two Career Counselling Approaches on Entrepreneurship Skills Over Time

Abstract

The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness stability of Shafiabadi's multi-axial model using and Gottfredson's theory of circumscription and compromise during the time. Statistical population was humanities graduate volunteer students of Islamic Azad University, Tehran Science and Research Branch, who attend to entrepreneurial classes. According to random sampling 45 individuals were selected among people who had been achieved fewer scores in the entrepreneurship skills questionnaire and randomly were replaced in three groups 1, 2 and control. Researcher's made questionnaire tools for entrepreneurship skills was used that its content validity, construct, and criterion were approved. Its credibility was calculated 0.90 by Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Test groups of one and two received respectively eight training entrepreneurship sessions based on Shafiabadi's model and Gottfredsons' theory. the control group has no intervention. Results showed that both of two groups are effective to increase entrepreneurship skills and multi-axial model is more effective. A month later, both two groups were tested again to investigate stability results. Also, results showed that findings of both two groups were stable over the time and multi-axial model is more stable.