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Karacan-Ozdemir, Nurten; Yerin Guneri, Oya – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Purpose: Regarded as an important means of career development, preparation, and transition, career adaptability is a lifelong skill that can enable individuals to overcome 21st-century work--life requirements and challenges. This study aims to investigate the factors contributing career adaptability of high-school students, which pose beneficial…
Descriptors: High School Students, Structural Equation Models, Vocational Adjustment, Foreign Countries
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Brown, Dikla; Cinamon, Rachel Gali – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2016
The current study focuses on the contribution of five personality traits to the development of self-efficacy and outcome expectations regarding selecting a high school major among adolescents with learning disabilities (LD). Social cognitive career theory and the Big Five personality traits model served as the theoretical framework. Participants…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Personality, Learning Disabilities, Course Selection (Students)
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Han, Hyojung; Rojewski, Jay W. – Journal of Career Development, 2015
A Korean national database, the High School Graduates Occupational Mobility Survey, was used to examine the influence of perceived social supports (family and school) and career adaptability on the subsequent job satisfaction of work-bound adolescents 4 months after their transition from high school to work. Structural equation modeling analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Gender Differences, Work Attitudes
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Faas, Caitlin; Benson, Mark J.; Kaestle, Christine E. – Journal of Youth Studies, 2013
Building on the Wisconsin Model of Status Attainment, this study examined the contextual process of obtaining educational attainment and the subsequent work outcomes and career satisfaction. This study used the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) with structural equation modeling techniques to assess US participants from…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Job Satisfaction, Young Adults, Structural Equation Models
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Wu, Ya-Ling – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2012
In Taiwan, the occupational achievement of indigenous people has been well below that of their non-indigenous counterparts. Studies have confirmed that the occupational aspirations of adolescents significantly influence their adult career choices and achievements. Therefore, this study tested the proposed theoretical model of occupational…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Career Development
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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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Schoon, Ingrid; Polek, Elzbieta – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
In this paper we examine the associations between gender, family background, general cognitive ability (g), teenage career aspirations, and career attainment in mid adulthood drawing on two large representative samples of the British population born in 1958 (N = 6,474) and in 1970 (N = 5,081). A developmental-contextual model of career development…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Career Choice, Adults, Occupational Aspiration
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Turner, Sherri L.; Conkel, Julia; Starkey, Michael T.; Landgraf, Rachel – Career Development Quarterly, 2010
This study examined gender differences in relationships among vocational skills, motivational approaches, and same-gender and cross-gender interests for urban adolescents. Results showed gender differences in interests, with males having greater Realistic interests and females having greater Artistic and Social interests, based on Holland's (1997)…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Student Interests, Assertiveness, Adolescents
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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
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Diemer, Matthew A.; Hsieh, Chueh-an; Pan, Tianshu – Counseling Psychologist, 2009
Sociopolitical development represents a motivation to reduce sociopolitical inequity, a healthy sense of the self, and perceived agency in the context of structural oppression. Sociopolitical development has been associated with progress in career development, school engagement, and healthier sexual behavior among oppressed and marginalized…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Economically Disadvantaged, Adolescents, Racial Relations
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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
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Pulkkinen, Lea; Feldt, Taru; Kokko, Katja – Social Indicators Research, 2006
The main aim of the study was to investigate the link between child and adolescent adaptive behavior and adult psychological functioning, and the role of career orientation in this linkage. This was based on a Finnish longitudinal study, where data at ages 8, 14, and 42 were available for 118 females and 115 males. Adaptive behavior, indicated by…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Career Planning, Career Development, Structural Equation Models
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Kim, Heeja; Rojewski, Jay W. – Journal of Vocational Education Research, 2002
This paper describes structural equation modeling (SEM) and possibilities for using SEM to address problems specific to workforce education and career development. A sample of adolescents identified as work-bound (i.e., transition directly from secondary school to work) from the National Education Longitudinal Study 1988-1996 database (NELS:…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Career Education, Career Development, Technical Education