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Santos, Paulo Jorge; Ferreira, Joaquim Armando – Journal of Career Assessment, 2012
Career indecision is a complex phenomenon and an increasing number of authors have proposed that undecided individuals do not form a group with homogeneous characteristics. This study examines career decision statuses among a sample of 362 12th-grade Portuguese students. A cluster-analytical procedure, based on a battery of instruments designed to…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Secondary School Students, Grade 12, Personality
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Haase, Richard F.; Ferreira, Joaquim Armando G. A.; Santos, Eduardo J. R.; Aguayo, Gina M.; Fallon, Melissa M. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2008
Person-Environment (P-E) fit models provide a conceptually powerful way to think about career development, vocational choice, and occupational success. The work reported here focuses on yet another pair of P-E criteria: self-reported individual capacity for information processing (the ability to tolerate information overload from a variety of…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Anthropology, Information Processing, Career Development
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Santos, Paulo Jorge – Journal of Career Assessment, 2001
Portuguese secondary students (n=345) completed measures of generalized indecision, psychological separation, vocational identity, self-esteem, locus of control, and anxiety. The most significant predictor of indecision was trait anxiety. Generalized indecision was associated with external locus of control, low self-esteem, low level of…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Career Choice, Foreign Countries, High School Students
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Santos, Paulo Jorge; Casillas, Alex; Robbins, Steven B. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2004
This study examined the relevance of the Goal Instability Scale-Portuguese Adaptation (GIS-P) on the vocational identity and career certainty of 375 10th-, 11th-, and 12th-grade Portuguese high schoolers. After translating the GIS-P, confirmatory factor analysis was used to examine the factorial unidimensionality and reliability of the construct.…
Descriptors: Cultural Relevance, Correlation, Student Motivation, High School Students