CHAPTER 5
 DISCUSSION

 This project involved the development, use, and evaluation of a new self-help

intervention in career counseling. In keeping with the theoretical perspective that clients

should have complete authorship of their life stories, the intervention was a guided tour

of various aspects of the career development process. The research hypothesis stated that

the online, self-help career intervention would have a positive impact on the career

indecision and career certainty of the participants. There were four possible outcomes of

the study. First, the online intervention could have impacted participants' scores on the

Career Decision Scale (CDS) independent of any effects from the pretest. Second, the

intervention and CDS could have interacted with each other to impact participants' scores

on the CDS. Third, the CDS pretest could have impacted participants' scores on the

CDS independent of any effects from the intervention. Fourth, there could have been no

impact on participants' scores by either the intervention or the CDS pretest.

 Volunteer participants were recruited at the University of Florida and the

University of Colorado at Boulder. Overall, 719 participants created accounts. Of those,

216 actually finished their assigned tasks, the majority of those in the control groups.

The data collection phase of the study remained open until a minimum of twenty people

in each study group completed the entire activity, which took approximately eight

months.

 Results indicated that both the Career Decision Scale (CDS) and the intervention

impacted outcomes. The intervention and the pretest measurement tool (CDS) interacted

with each other to impact participants' posttest scores. The outcomes seem to fit well
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