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Creed, Peter; Tilbury, Clare; Buys, Nick; Crawford, Meegan – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2011
We surveyed 217 students (145 girls; average age = 14.6 years) on two occasions, twelve months apart, on measures of career aspirations (job aspirations, job expectations, educational aspirations) and goal orientation (learning, performance-prove, performance-avoid), and tested the causal relationship between goal orientation and aspirations. We…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Academic Aspiration, Early Adolescents, Causal Models