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Parent and Adolescent Perceptions of Adolescent Career Development Tasks and Vocational Identity
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Rogers, Mary E.; Creed, Peter A.; Praskova, Anna – Journal of Career Development, 2018
We surveyed Australian adolescents and parents to test differences and congruence in perceptions of adolescent career development tasks (career planning, exploration, certainty, and world-of-work knowledge) and vocational identity. We found that, for adolescents (N = 415), career development tasks (not career exploration) explained 48% of the…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Adolescent Attitudes, Career Development, Vocational Interests
Developmental Issues in Career Maturity and Career Decision Status.
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Patton, Wendy; Creed, Peter A. – Career Development Quarterly, 2001
Reports cross-sectional data from 1,971 Australian adolescents who completed the Career Decision Scale and the Career Development Inventory. Results illustrate a developmental progression in career maturity, although a less uniform pattern emerged with gender differences. Findings regarding career indecision also presented a complex picture and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, Career Development, Foreign Countries
Causal Relationship between Career Indecision and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy: A Longitudinal Cross-Lagged Analysis
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Creed, Peter; Patton, Wendy; Prideaux, Lee-Ann – Journal of Career Development, 2006
This study surveyed 166 students when they were in Grade 8 of high school and then again when they were in Grade 10, using measures of career indecision and career decision-making self-efficacy. Consistent with social-cognitive theories, the authors hypothesized that changes in self-efficacy over time would be causally associated with changes in…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Career Choice, Decision Making, Change