Análise da produção científica brasileira sobre avaliação psicológica em orientação profissional

Abstract

This study performed a survey of Brazilian scientific literature, published in national databases of scientific journals about the psychological assessment in the context of career guidance. To this end, a search was performed on the basis PePSIC and Scielo in August 2011, with selection and exclusion criteria and terms defined a priori, with the scope of analysis a total of 24 articles that were full texts analyzed. The results were organized into three blocks, about authors, journals and methodological aspects. Issues related to states of origin of the authors, the relationship between goals set and methods adopted in the articles and the apparent causation between number of publications of articles for professional use and approval of the tests are discussed mainly.