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Students' Occupational Aspirations: Can Family Relationships Account for Differences between Immigrant and Socioeconomic Groups?
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Plenty, Stephanie M.; Jonsson, Jan O. – Child Development, 2021
Immigrant background and disadvantaged socioeconomic background are two key predictors of poorer school achievement in Europe. However, the former is associated with higher while the latter is associated with lower aspirations. This study asks whether family relationships account for this difference. Data come from 5,926 students in Germany and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Occupational Aspiration, Immigrants
The Correlation of Honesty-Humility and Learning Goals with Academic Cheating
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Reinhardt, Nina; Trnka, Lina-Marie; Reinhard, Marc-André – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2023
Academic cheating is a problem that affects many educational institutions and has become increasingly significant with the new challenges of online education. Recent studies have found that learning goals are correlated with cheating behavior among students. In this study, we investigated whether learning goals are still a predictor of cheating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Ethics, Emotional Response
Beneficial Effects of Disengagement from Futile Struggles with Occupational Planning: A Contextualist-Motivational Approach
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Tomasik, Martin J.; Silbereisen, Rainer K. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Globalized labor markets confront many adults, both employed and unemployed, with demands arising from career uncertainty that have the potential to jeopardize their occupational planning. This article investigated how individuals in different regions of Germany, which are characterized by different economic opportunities, negotiate such demands…
Descriptors: Well Being, Foreign Countries, Economic Opportunities, Career Planning
School Social Capital and Secondary Education Plans
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Schuchart, Claudia – Educational Studies, 2013
This article intends to identify the effects of school social capital on the educational plans of students, particularly those staying in school and obtaining an intermediate certificate. It is hypothesised that social capital helps to explain individual educational plans and differences between schools regarding the amount of students with…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Social Capital, Hypothesis Testing, Teacher Expectations of Students
The Role of Self-Efficacy, Academic Abilities, and Parental Education in the Change in Career Decisions of Adolescents Facing German Unification
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Pinquart, Martin; Juang, Linda P.; Silbereisen, Rainer K. – Journal of Career Development, 2004
In times of dramatic social change, new career options emerge and old options may become obsolete. We investigated predictors of change in general career aspirations and of plans to attend a university of East German adolescents from 1989 (before German unification) to 1991 and 1995, respectively, after German unification. Higher pre-unification…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Academic Ability, Adolescents, Vocational Education
Occupational Dreams, Choices and Aspirations: Adolescents' Entrepreneurial Prospects and Orientations.
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Schmitt-Rodermund, Eva; Vondracek, Fred W. – Journal of Adolescence, 2002
The present study examines possible early antecedents of entrepreneurship of 10th grade students. Hypothesizes that Entrepreneurial Orientation (interest and self-efficacy), together with Willingness to Expend Effort, would be an important predictor of an adolescent's Entrepreneurial Prospects. Furthermore, personality and the model of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries