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Ma, Yin; Bennett, Dawn; Chen, Shih-Chih – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
This study examined the extent to which perceived organisational support (POS) predicts career exploration via the mediation effect of career adaptability. Grounded in career construction theory, the study employed an online survey with 611 Chinese undergraduate students. The survey employed POS, career adaptability and career-related exploration…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Adjustment, Career Exploration, Career Development
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Heffernan, Troy – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
Academic networks have been found to play a significant role in career trajectory via employment opportunities, publishing openings, or being alerted to prospects not widely advertised. These results are reflective of Bourdieu's notion that social capital can see an individual's position within a field (in this article the field of academia)…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Career Development, College Faculty, Higher Education
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Sargent, Carol Springer – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
This study investigated how individual and course-level variables across the curriculum at a four-year college (college here refers to a higher education institution that offers undergraduate education but not graduate degrees) in the southeastern US impacted student reflective thinking as measured by Kember and colleagues' [2000. Development of a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Reflection, Critical Thinking, Transformative Learning