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50 Years of ERIC
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Kyndt, Eva; Onghena, Patrick; Smet, Kelly; Dochy, Filip – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2014
The current study focuses on employees' learning intentions, or the willingness to undertake formal work-related learning. This cross-sectional survey study included a sample of 1,243 employees that are nested within 21 organisations. The results of the multilevel analysis show that self-directedness in career processes, time management,…
Descriptors: Employees, Employee Attitudes, Workplace Learning, Time Management
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Praskova, Anna; Creed, Peter A.; Hood, Michelle – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2013
Goal engagement in young adults is variable. We recruited university students to test whether general personal characteristics (educational ability, core self-evaluations, and well-being; study 1, N = 195) and career adaptive variables (career confidence, exploration, and planning; study 2, N = 152) facilitated career goal engagement. Goal…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Individual Characteristics, Academic Ability, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Lee, In Heok; Rojewski, Jay W.; Hill, Roger B. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2013
Latent class analysis was used to examine the career preparation of 5,227 11th-grade Korean adolescents taken from the Korean Education Longitudinal Study of 2005 (KELS:2005). Three career preparedness groups were identified, to reflecting Skorikov's ("J Vocat Behav" 70:8-24, 2007) conceptualization of career preparedness: prepared, confused, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Readiness, Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies
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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 scale, five self-concept…
Descriptors: Individualism, Vocational Maturity, Career Planning, Parenting Styles
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Balin, Elif; Hirschi, Andreas – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2010
This study investigated whether career adaptability, personality, attitude towards career counselling and some demographic variables predict the help seeking behaviour in career counselling among 330 Swiss adolescents in eighth grade. The results indicated that boys were less likely to seek help and that career related variables and attitude but…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Personality, Adolescents, Grade 8
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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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Cardoso, Paulo; Moreira, Joao Manuel – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2009
This study tested the hypothesis that self-efficacy in career roles moderates the relation between perception of career barriers and career planning, in a study with Portuguese students, 488 in Grade 9 and 517 in Grade 12. The results supported the hypothesis only among Grade 9 girls, showing that perception of career barriers leads to less career…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Self Efficacy, Grade 9, Grade 12