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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
The Relationship between Career Variables and Occupational Aspirations and Expectations for Australian High School Adolescents
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Patton, Wendy; Creed, Peter – Journal of Career Development, 2007
This study surveyed 925 Australian high school students enrolled in grades 8 through 12 on measures of occupational aspirations, occupational expectations, career status aspirations, and career status expectations; it tested the association between these variables and career maturity, career indecision, career decision-making self-efficacy, and…
Descriptors: Expectation, Professional Occupations, Vocational Maturity, Employment Level
The Relationship between Career Maturity and Work Commitment in a Sample of Australian High School Students.
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Patton, Wendy; Creed, Peter A. – Journal of Career Development, 2002
Australian high school students (n=377) completed the Career Development Inventory and a work commitment measure. Commitment was moderately correlated with career development. Commitment and the knowledge component of career maturity were strongly related for females. Females had higher work commitment scores than males. (Contains 39 references.)…
Descriptors: Career Development, Foreign Countries, High School Students, Sex Differences
Predicting Two Components of Career Maturity in School Based Adolescents.
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Creed, Peter A.; Patton, Wendy A. – Journal of Career Development, 2003
Multiple regression analyses of data on career maturity, work commitment, work values, self-efficacy, age, and career decidedness were conducted for 367 Australian students in grades 8-12. Chief predictors of career maturity attitudes were age, gender, and career certainty. Commitment and career indecision were the main predictors of career…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, Decision Making, Foreign Countries