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Obschonka, Martin; Silbereisen, Rainer K.; Schmitt-Rodermund, Eva – Career Development Quarterly, 2012
Applying a life-span approach of human development and using the example of science-based business idea generation, the authors used structural equation modeling to test a mediation model for predicting entrepreneurial behavior in a sample of German scientists (2 measurement occasions; Time 1, N = 488). It was found that recalled early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, Structural Equation Models, Social Capital
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Masche, J. Gowert; van Dulmen, Manfred H. M. – Developmental Review, 2004
Based on Schaie's (1965) general developmental model, various data-driven and theory-based approaches to the exploration and disentangling of age, cohort, and time effects on human behavior have emerged. This paper presents and discusses an advancement of data-driven interpretations that stresses parsimony when interpreting the results of…
Descriptors: Sequential Approach, Time, Individual Development, Age Differences
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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
Booth, Alan, Ed.; Crouter, Ann C., Ed.; Shanahan, Michael J., Ed. – 1999
This book contains 17 papers devoted to the following four aspects of the transition to adulthood: effects of alterations in the structure of opportunity; effects of prior experiences in the family; effects of prior experience in the workplace; and career development and marriage formation during a period of rising inequality. The following papers…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Beliefs