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Porfeli, Erik J. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2007
Work values stability, change, and development can be appreciably reduced to a living system model [Ford, D. H. (1994). "Humans as self-constructing living systems: A developmental perspective on behavior and personality" (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates]. This theoretical model includes discrepancy-reducing and…
Descriptors: Value Judgment, Part Time Employment, Social Psychology, Integrity
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Morrison, Diane M.; Spencer, Michael S.; Gillmore, Mary Rogers – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1998
Used Theory of Reasoned Action to investigate the cognitive structure underlying substance use through interviews with mothers 17 years old or younger during pregnancy. Found that substance use was lowest during pregnancy, increased sharply at 6 months postpartum, and remained level at 12 months. Changes in intentions, attitudes, perceived social…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Attitude Change, Cognitive Structures
Stehlikova, Nada – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
In the study, a part of longitudinal research focused on the emergence of mathematical knowledge structures in a learner's mind is presented. It concentrates on the analysis of introspective data gained from the author's study of a non-standard arithmetic structure in terms of the model of abstraction in context (Hershkowitz, Schwarz and Dreyfus).…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Longitudinal Studies, Models, Interviews
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Tracey, Terence J. G.; Lent, Robert W.; Brown, Steven D.; Soresi, Salvatore; Nota, Laura – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2006
We explored the ''idiothetic'' cognitive structure of RIASEC occupational percepts in a sample of Italian middle and high school students over a one year period, examining the possible bidirectional linkages between cognitive-vocational structure, involvement in career exploration activities, and exposure to authoritative parenting style. The…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Interest Inventories, Foreign Countries, Middle School Students