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Li, Tiantian; Tien, Hsiu-Lan Shelley; Gu, Jiyou; Wang, Juanjuan – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2023
This study explored the chain mediating role of perceived career barriers and career maturity in the relationship between social support and career adaptability of vocational college students. Eight hundred and sixty-two vocational college students were recruited to complete the Social Support Rating Scale, Perceived Career Barriers Inventory,…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Career Development, Vocational Adjustment, Vocational Maturity
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Motlova, Veronika; Honsova, Pavlina – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2021
This quasi-experimental design study investigated an interactive and practical Career Development Programme (CDP), a 13-week career guidance and counselling (CGC) intervention, on a sample of 224 Czech students. Students who received the CGC intervention and those from the "waiting list" who expressed interest in gaining support through…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Counseling, Intervention, Program Length
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Liu, Yan; Peng, Kelly; Wong, Chi-Sum – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2014
Despite the well-recognized importance of career maturity in job searching, little research has been done on the influence of career maturity on job attainment. Drawing on the extant literature, this study examined the relationship between career maturity and job attainment, and explored the boundary conditions that maximize this relationship.…
Descriptors: Vocational Maturity, Vocational Interests, Employment, Foreign Countries
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Hughes, Catherine – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2011
Relationships between career maturity and self-concept, parenting style and individualism-collectivism across Australian and Thai cultural contexts were investigated. Berry's ("1969") etic-emic model for adapting instruments for cross-cultural research was applied. "Derived etic" status was achieved for the career planning…
Descriptors: Individualism, Vocational Maturity, Career Planning, Parenting Styles
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Sadeghi, Ahmad; Baghban, Iran; Bahrami, Fatemeh; Ahmadi, Ahmad; Creed, Peter – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2011
A short 33-item form of the Career Development Inventory was validated on a sample of 310 Iranian high school students. Factor analysis indicated that attitude and cognitive subscale items loaded on their respective factors, and that internal reliability coefficients at all levels were satisfactory to good. Support for validity was demonstrated by…
Descriptors: Vocational Maturity, Self Efficacy, Reliability, Factor Analysis
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Hirschi, Andreas – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2010
The study investigated the predictive utility of interest profile differentiation, coherence, elevation, congruence, and vocational identity commitment and career maturity (career planning and exploration) on the 10-month interest stability of 292 Swiss eighth-grade students: profile, rank, and level stabilities were assessed. Controlling for…
Descriptors: Vocational Maturity, Career Planning, Vocational Interests, Profiles
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Janeiro, Isabel N.; Marques, Jose Ferreira – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2010
The types of difficulties associated with career attitudes were studied using Super's model of career maturity (1990) in a group of 620 Portuguese students from grades 9 and 12. A cluster analysis identified four styles with different patterns of association between time perspective, attributional beliefs, self-esteem and career attitudes. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Maturity, Coping, Multivariate Analysis