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The Role of Personality in Adolescent Career Planning and Exploration: A Social Cognitive Perspective
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Rogers, Mary E.; Creed, Peter A.; Glendon, A. Ian – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
Social cognitive career theory (SCCT) recognises the importance of individual differences and contextual influences in the career decision-making process. In extending the SCCT choice model, this study tested the role of personality, social supports, and the SCCT variables of self-efficacy, outcome expectations and goals in explaining the career…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Self Efficacy, Personality, Career Exploration
Thinking about Non-Traditional Careers. An Exploratory Workshop for Teenagers. Final Report from July 1, 1986 to June 30, 1987.
Sarasota County Vocational-Technical Center, Sarasota, FL. – 1987
A two-week workshop was organized at which 10th- and 11th-grade girls actively explored for one full day six different nontraditional careers. The careers were auto mechanics, law enforcement, emergency medical technician/paramedic, livestock production, fire science, and hotel management. Shorter sessions were conducted in broadcasting and…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Career Education, Career Exploration, Females
Improving Vocational Guidance and Counseling by Developing Career/Vocational Assessment Program. Vocational Guidance and Counseling Project. Final Report August 1, 1985-May 30, 1986.
Sellers, Lucille A. – 1986
A career/vocational assessment program with four participating high schools was developed. The major goal was to provide students the opportunity to identify and explore their specific vocational interests and opportunities. The target population consisted of 222 ninth-graders who were prevocational students or who had expressed an interest in…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Education