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Schmitt-Rodermund, Eva; Silbereisen, Rainer K. – Career Development Quarterly, 1998
Compares adolescents from East Germany who experienced an educational system offering little choice with adolescents from West Germany who experienced more leeway to investigate career maturity. East German adolescents reported more career maturity. Person-related variables predicted career maturity in both groups; family and peer context were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Development, Context Effect, Cultural Context
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Navarro, Rachel L.; Flores, Lisa Y.; Worthington, Robert L. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2007
This study examined whether sociocontextual and sociocognitive variables explained the math/science goals of 409 Mexican American youth using a modified version of R. W. Lent, S. D. Brown, and G. Hackett's (1994) social cognitive career theory. Results from structural equation modeling indicated that the hypothesized model explained a significant…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy, Social Class
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Turner, Sherri L. – Professional School Counseling, 2007
The study in this article investigated how academic preparation, career development skills, parental assistance, and social/environmental barriers predicted inner-city adolescents' psychological preparation to transition into high school. Results showed that academic preparation, parents' instrumental assistance, adolescents' career development…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Pregnancy, Gender Differences, Career Development