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The Relationship between Personality Factors, Vocational Identity and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy
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Emanuel Sebastian Turda – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2024
Context: Adolescence is the training ground for adult life. In a relatively short period, the adolescent will undergo a metamorphosis. During the high school years, the majority of adolescents move from persistent dependence to true independence, from logical thinking to abstract, complex and hypothetical thinking, from impulsivity to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Career Choice, Decision Making
Parental Attachment Bonds, Dysfunctional Career Thoughts and Career Exploration as Predictors of Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy of Grade 11 Students
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El-Hassan, Karma; Ghalayini, Nadine – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2020
This study investigates the relationship between career decision-making self-efficacy (CDMSE) and parental attachment, dysfunctional career thoughts, and career exploration in a sample of 170 Lebanese Grade 11 students drawn from 10 private schools that provide career guidance services. The following tools were used to assess the variables: Career…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Social Support Groups, Career Exploration
A Longitudinal Study of the Developmental Trajectories of Parental Attachment and Career Maturity of South Korean Adolescents
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Choi, Sumi; Hutchison, Brian; Lemberger, Matthew E.; Pope, Mark – Career Development Quarterly, 2012
This study tested the developmental trajectories of career maturity (CM) and parental attachment (PA), the longitudinal influence of both, and gender as a moderator. Findings showed developmental progressions in adolescents' PA and CM over 4 years. The change in PA was positively related to the developmental change in CM. For gender, there was a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Predictor Variables, Adolescents
Individual Predictors of Adolescents' Vocational Interest Stabilities
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Hirschi, Andreas – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2010
The study investigated the predictive utility of interest profile differentiation, coherence, elevation, congruence, and vocational identity commitment and career maturity (career planning and exploration) on the 10-month interest stability of 292 Swiss eighth-grade students: profile, rank, and level stabilities were assessed. Controlling for…
Descriptors: Vocational Maturity, Career Planning, Vocational Interests, Profiles
The Vocational Attitude Maturity of Disadvantaged Eighth and Twelfth Grade Students in Rural Eastern Kentucky.
Whitman, Robert L. – 1972
To determine aspects of the attitudinal dimension of vocational maturity among rural disadvantaged girls and boys of eastern Kentucky, samples of Grade 8 and 12 students were administered the: (1) Vocational Development Inventory-Attitude Scale, (2) Occupational Aspiration Scale, (3) California Test of Mental Maturity and the Otis-Lennon Mental…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Doctoral Dissertations
Career Maturity Determinants: Individual Development, Social Context, and Historical Time.
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Schmitt-Rodermund, Eva; Silbereisen, Rainer K. – Career Development Quarterly, 1998
Compares adolescents from East Germany who experienced an educational system offering little choice with adolescents from West Germany who experienced more leeway to investigate career maturity. East German adolescents reported more career maturity. Person-related variables predicted career maturity in both groups; family and peer context were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Development, Context Effect, Cultural Context