Patterns of career and family transitions for German young adults were analyzed using correspondence analysis (interpersonal connections) and configural frequency analysis. Results demonstrated that person-oriented nonlinear methods are valuable approaches to studying the complex phenomenon of career development. (Contains 65 references.) (SK)

This study compared the timing of early vocational preferences in young adolescents from former East Germany and West Germany. Results suggested that as the memory of the Communist system fades and as younger adolescents have had less exposure to it, East-West differences tend to disappear. The formation of early vocational preferences was…