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Career-Choice Readiness in Adolescence: Developmental Trajectories and Individual Differences
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Hirschi, Andreas – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2011
Developing career-choice readiness is an important task in adolescence, but current theory and research has provided a rather static view of the phenomenon. The present study investigated the development of career-choice readiness among a group of 325 Swiss students assessed four times every 5 months from seventh through eighth grade. A…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Occupational Information, Self Efficacy, Individual Differences
Vocational Interests and Career Goals: Development and Relations to Personality in Middle Adolescence
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Hirschi, Andreas – Journal of Career Assessment, 2010
Cross-sectional research implies a close relation of vocation interests, goals, and traits, yet little is known about their reciprocal development over time. This longitudinal study examined development of Things/People (T/P) and Data/Ideas (D/I) vocational interests and career goals in relation to Big Five personality traits among 292 Swiss…
Descriptors: Vocational Interests, Career Choice, Occupational Aspiration, Personality Traits
Swiss Adolescents' Career Aspirations: Influence of Context, Age, and Career Adaptability
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Hirschi, Andreas – Journal of Career Development, 2010
This study investigated the content, realism, stability, and coherence of the career aspirations of 262 students in seventh grade in Switzerland (ages 13-15 years). The content analysis revealed that 82% of the participants named at least one realistic career aspiration, and aspirations showed clear resemblance to existing opportunities in the…
Descriptors: Realism, Age, Rhetoric, Occupational Aspiration
Development and Criterion Validity of Differentiated and Elevated Vocational Interests in Adolescence
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Hirschi, Andreas – Journal of Career Assessment, 2009
Interest differentiation and elevation are supposed to provide important information about a person's state of interest development, yet little is known about their development and criterion validity. The present study explored these constructs among a group of Swiss adolescents. Study 1 applied a cross-sectional design with 210 students in 11th…
Descriptors: Vocational Interests, Validity, Adolescents, Individual Development
Increasing the Career Choice Readiness of Young Adolescents: An Evaluation Study
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Hirschi, Andreas; Lage, Damian – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2008
A career workshop that applies models of the Cognitive Information Processing Approach (Sampson, Reardon, Peterson, & Lenz, 2004) and incorporates critical ingredients (Brown and Ryan Krane, 2000) to promote the career choice readiness of young adolescents was developed and evaluated with 334 Swiss students in seventh grade applying a Solomon…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Career Choice, Early Adolescents, Grade 7
Using Accuracy of Self-Estimated Interest Type as a Sign of Career Choice Readiness in Career Assessment of Secondary Students
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Hirschi, Andreas; Lage, Damian – Journal of Career Assessment, 2008
A frequent applied method in career assessment to elicit clients' self-concepts is asking them to predict their interest assessment results. Accuracy in estimating one's interest type is commonly taken as a sign of more self-awareness and career choice readiness. The study evaluated the empirical relation of accuracy of self-estimation to career…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Grade 7, Career Counseling, Counseling Psychology