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Peer reviewedFretz, Bruce R. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1972
A multiple discriminant analysis was used to classify students in education, law, medicine, engineering, and business on the basis of preadolescent development data. Increased attention to preadolescent development as predictive of career preference is indicated. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, Career Development, Data Collection
Peer reviewedStern, Marilyn; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1991
Compared 48 adolescent cancer patients with matched group of 40 healthy adolescents on career maturity progress and tendency to foreclose on career choice. Found few differences as function of health status alone. Career maturity differed between two groups as function of age. Adolescent cancer patients showed greater tendency to prematurely…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Cancer, Career Choice
Peer reviewedTierney, Roger; Herman, Al – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1973
Two articles dealing with self estimate ability in adolescence are presented; one is an investigation to determine whether age, grade level, school program, sex, intelligence, and social class influence the accuracy of self-knowledge of vocationally relevant attributes of high school students. The second article comments on this study and other…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adolescents, Career Counseling, Career Development
Peer reviewedHollender, John W. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1971
In this study the significant relationship between vocational decisions and school grade and the lack of association with age level indicates that environmental influences on vocational development are more closely tied to educational level than to chronological age. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Age, Career Choice
Peer reviewedRainey, Leslie Martin; Borders, L. DiAnne – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1997
Investigates two models of career development using 276 seventh- and eighth-grade girls and their mothers. Results indicate that in both models, adolescents' agentic characteristics (e.g., independence, assertiveness, willingness to take a stand) and maternal variables (e.g., education, employment, etc.) contributed significantly to adolescents'…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Career Development, Females
Peer reviewedHanson, Jerrold T.; Sander, Daryl L. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1973
Evaluates the effects of individual and group counseling with vocationally unrealistic high school boys. (Author/NJ)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Development
Peer reviewedPalmer, Sylvia; Cochran, Larry – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1988
Tested the effectiveness of program for parents to help their adolescent children in career planning using pretest-posttest control group design. Found significant effects for groups over time; of five parent-child relations and career development variables, career orientation and career items proved significant; results approached significance…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Development, Career Planning, Counseling
Direct linkFlores, Lisa Y.; O'Brien, Karen M. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2002
This study tested R. W. Lent, S. D. Brown, and G. Hackett's (1994) model of career choice with 364 Mexican American adolescent women. Path analyses were run to determine the influence of contextual and social cognitive variables on career aspiration, career choice prestige, and traditionality. Partial support for the model was evidenced as…
Descriptors: Reputation, Females, Career Choice, Acculturation
