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Dictionary of Vocational Psychology
Self-observation generalizations
An important construct in Mitchell and Krumboltz's (1996) learning theory of career choice and counseling, self-observation generalizations are essentially generalizations about beliefs about how one's beliefs about one's personal charcteristics would generalize to new situations or characteristics. The personal characteristics addressed by self-observation generalizations include but are not necessarily limited to abilities and skills, interests, and values. Self-observations generalizations vary in their accuracy, typically determined by external observations, ratings by others, or test scores. Mitchell and Krumboltz use this construct to account for the ease with which individuals express "interests" in reference to the variety of items on interest inventories.
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