ERIC Number: EJ872570
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Feb
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Career Development and Personal Functioning Differences between Work-Bound and Non-Work Bound Students
Creed, Peter A.; Patton, Wendy; Hood, Michelle
Journal of Vocational Behavior, v76 n1 p37-41 Feb 2010
We surveyed 506 Australian high school students on career development (exploration, planning, job-knowledge, decision-making, indecision), personal functioning (well-being, self-esteem, life satisfaction, school satisfaction) and control variables (parent education, school achievement), and tested differences among work-bound, college-bound and university-bound students. The work-bound students had the poorest career development and personal functioning, the university-bound students the highest, with the college-bound students falling in-between the other two groups. Work-bound students did poorest, even after controlling for parent education and school achievement. The results suggest a relationship between career development and personal functioning in high school students. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Academic Achievement, Parent Education, High School Students, Career Development, Foreign Countries, Test Bias, High Schools, College Bound Students, Well Being, Self Esteem, Comparative Analysis, Entry Workers, Education Work Relationship, Labor Force
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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