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  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Robert W. Lent is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on social sciences, with substantial contributions across multiple subfields including safety research, education, management of technology and innovation, general health professions, and clinical psychology.

The core themes of their work revolve around career development and diversity, higher education and employability, entrepreneurship studies and influences, employment and welfare studies, higher education research studies, gender diversity and inequality, and retirement, disability, and employment.

Recent publications by Robert W. Lent include:

  • Career decision making, fast and slow: Toward an integrative model of intervention for sustainable career choice (2020) in Journal of Vocational Behavior
  • Test of a Social Cognitive Model of Proactive Career Behavior (2022) in Journal of Career Assessment
  • Career decision-making in unemployed Portuguese adults: Test of the social cognitive model of career self-management (2021) in Journal of Counseling Psychology
  • Predictors of workplace sexual identity management behaviors: A test of the social cognitive career self-management model (2021) in Journal of Vocational Behavior

Robert W. Lent has frequently published in several academic journals, most notably:

  • Journal of Career Assessment
  • Journal of Counseling Psychology
  • Journal of Vocational Behavior
  • PsycEXTRA Dataset
  • Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion

The scientist has collaborated regularly with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Ruogu J. Wang
  • Emily R. Cygrymus
  • Bhanu Priya Moturu
  • Taylor R. Morris
  • Steven D. Brown

Robert W. Lent's work integrates aspects of social cognitive models and career self-management, as reflected in studies addressing career decision-making and workplace behaviors. Their research addresses both theoretical frameworks and applied career interventions across diverse populations.

The scientist was recognized by professional organizations, having been named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 1992.

Best Publications

  • Toward a Unifying Social Cognitive Theory of Career and Academic Interest, Choice, and Performance

    Robert William Lent;Steven D. Brown;Gail Hackett

  • Relation of self-efficacy beliefs to academic outcomes: A meta-analytic investigation.

    Karen D. Multon;Steven D. Brown;Robert W. Lent

  • Contextual supports and barriers to career choice: A social cognitive analysis.

    Robert W. Lent;Steven D. Brown;Gail Hackett

  • Relation of self-efficacy expectations to academic achievement and persistence.

    Robert W. Lent;Steven D. Brown;Kevin C. Larkin

  • Self-efficacy in the prediction of academic performance and perceived career options.

    Robert W. Lent;Steven D. Brown;Kevin C. Larkin

  • Career Development and Counseling: Putting Theory and Research to Work

    Stephen D. Brown;Robert W. Lent

  • Social cognitive model of career self-management: Toward a unifying view of adaptive career behavior across the life span.

    Robert W. Lent;Steven D. Brown

  • Career self-efficacy: Empirical status and future directions

    Robert W Lent;Gail Hackett

  • Toward a Unifying Theoretical and Practical Perspective on Well-Being and Psychosocial Adjustment.

    Robert W. Lent

  • Mathematics self-efficacy: Sources and relation to science-based career choice.

    Robert W. Lent;Frederick G. Lopez;Kathleen J. Bieschke

  • Social Cognitive Predictors of Academic Interests and Goals in Engineering: Utility for Women and Students at Historically Black Universities.

    Robert W. Lent;Steven D. Brown;Hung-Bin Sheu;Janet Schmidt

  • Handbook of counseling psychology

    Steven D. Brown;Robert W. Lent

  • Social Cognitive Approach to Career Development: An Overview

    Robert W. Lent;Steven D. Brown

  • On Conceptualizing and Assessing Social Cognitive Constructs in Career Research: A Measurement Guide

    Robert W. Lent;Steven D. Brown

  • Integrating person and situation perspectives on work satisfaction: A social-cognitive view.

    Robert W. Lent;Steven D. Brown

  • Relation of Contextual Supports and Barriers to Choice Behavior in Engineering Majors: Test of Alternative Social Cognitive Models.

    Robert W. Lent;Steven D. Brown;Janet Schmidt;Bradley Brenner

  • A Social Cognitive View of Career Development and Counseling.

    Robert W. Lent

  • Comparison of Three Theoretically Derived Variables in Predicting Career and Academic Behavior: Self-Efficacy, Interest Congruence, and Consequence Thinking.

    Robert W. Lent;Steven D. Brown;Kevin C. Larkin

  • A Social Cognitive Framework for Career Choice Counseling

    Steven D. Brown;Robert W. Lent

  • Social Cognitive Career Theory and Subjective Well-Being in the Context of Work

    Robert W. Lent;Steve D. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven D. Brown
Steven D. Brown Loyola University Chicago
Gail Hackett
Gail Hackett Arizona State University
Laura Nota
Laura Nota University of Padua
Ryan D. Duffy
Ryan D. Duffy University of Florida
Frederick G. Lopez
Frederick G. Lopez University of Houston
Madonna G. Constantine
Madonna G. Constantine Columbia University
Terence J. G. Tracey
Terence J. G. Tracey Arizona State University
James E. Maddux
James E. Maddux George Mason University
Ruth E. Fassinger
Ruth E. Fassinger University of Maryland, College Park
Karen M. O'Brien
Karen M. O'Brien University of Maryland, College Park

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