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Vocational Self-Concept Crystallization as a Mediator of the Relationship between Career Self-Management and Job Decision Effectiveness
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Weng, Qingxiong; McElroy, James C. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
This article examines the influence of career self-management and vocational self-concept crystallization on job decision effectiveness and how vocational self-concept crystallization mediates the relationship between career self-management and job decision effectiveness. Six hundred and eleven Chinese employees participated in the research. Using…
Descriptors: Career Development, Self Concept, Career Choice, Employees
Age Effects on the Employability--Career Success Relationship
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Van der Heijden, Beatrice I. J. M.; de Lange, Annet H.; Demerouti, Evangelia; Van der Heijde, Claudia M. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2009
This study investigated the similarity of the factor structure for self-reported versus supervisor-rated employability for two age groups of workers, and then validated a career success enhancing model of employability across the two age groups. The results confirmed a two-factor model including self-reported and supervisor-rated employability as…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Structural Equation Models, Job Performance, Factor Structure
Entrepreneurial Intention as Developmental Outcome
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Obschonka, Martin; Silbereisen, Rainer K.; Schmitt-Rodermund, Eva – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
What predicts adults' entrepreneurial intentions? Utilizing a cross-sectional sample of 496 German scientists, we investigated a path model for the effects of entrepreneurial personality (Big Five profile), control beliefs, and recalled early entrepreneurial competence in adolescence (early inventions, leadership, commercial activities) on two…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Intellectual Property, Personality, Entrepreneurship
Motivational Dynamics in the Development of Career Attitudes among Adolescents
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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
Family Transmission of Work Affectivity and Experiences to Children
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Porfeli, Erik J.; Wang, Chuang; Hartung, Paul J. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
Theory and research suggest that children develop orientations toward work appreciably influenced by their family members' own expressed work experiences and emotions. Cross-sectional data from 100 children (53 girls, 47 boys; mean age = 11.1 years) and structural equation modeling were used to assess measures of work affectivity and experiences…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Career Development, Work Attitudes, Children
Continuity in Adolescent Career Preparation and Its Effects on Adjustment
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Skorikov, Vladimir – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2007
Career preparation represents a major developmental task of adolescence, which has not received sufficient attention in empirical research on career development. Thus, this study was designed to examine the structure, continuity, and change in adolescent career preparation and its relationships with adjustment. The data were collected from a…
Descriptors: Grade 11, Adolescents, Social Integration, Developmental Tasks