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Janeiro, Isabel Nunes – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
Super (1990) proposed that the psychological determinants of career development attitudes are time perspective, self-esteem, and causal attributions. The present study analyzed the effects of these determinants on the career development attitudes of 320 students from grade 9 and 300 students from grade 12. The analysis of the data using structural…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Vocational Maturity, Time Perspective, Grade 9
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Lokan, Janice J.; Biggs, John B. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1982
Investigated student characteristics in relation to affective and cognitive aspects of adolescent career development. Questionnaire results indicated three styles of career development: intellective or deliberative; concerned and personally involved with high or low aspirations; and uncertain or confused. Suggests motives and strategies that might…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Career Development, Cognitive Style
ACT, Inc., 2007
Postsecondary and work success is central to the economic and social wellbeing of a country. Fundamentally, college success is measured by persistence to degree attainment. Analogously, work success refers to effective performance of a job's required tasks. To succeed in college, one must be ready for college. A student who is ready for college is…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Career Development
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Cujba, Andrei, Ed.; Westfried, Stefan, Ed. – Revista de Pedagogie, 1997
These proceedings consist of 62 presentations (21 written in French, 19 in English, 21 in Romanian, 1 in Spanish). The foreword appears in French, English, and Romanian. Papers written in English include the following:"Vocational Guidance and Change of Career: The New Demands" (Graciela Canessa); "Intervention Strategies. Youth…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Career Choice, Career Development
Griggs, Mildred Barnes; And Others – 1992
A project investigated the factors that influence the academic and vocational development of African-American and Hispanic youth. Data were collected via a questionnaire and structured interviews from 36 college juniors and seniors. Twenty-eight were female, of whom 18 were African-American and 10 were Latino. Six Latino and two African-American…
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Black Attitudes, Black Education, Black Students