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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Talib, Jasmi A.; Salleh, Amla; Amat, Salleh; Ghavifekr, Simin; Ariff, Azlinda M. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2015
Using a pre-post and control group design, we examined the effect of a career education module on career development among a group of 122 community college students in Malaysia. The effect of gender and the interaction effect of gender and career education module on career development were also investigated. MANOVA analyses showed significant…
Descriptors: Career Education, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Gender Differences
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Sawitri, Dian R.; Creed, Peter A.; Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie J. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2014
Using social cognitive career theory, we examined the relationships between parental variables (parental career expectations, adolescent-parent career congruence) and adolescent career aspirations and career actions (planning, exploration) in a sample of Grade 10 Indonesian high school students. We found good support for a model that revealed…
Descriptors: Collectivism, Rural Areas, Parent Influence, Adolescents
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Bagheri, Afsaneh; Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah Lope – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2014
This study examines the relationships among attitude toward entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, subjective norms, social valuation of entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial intentions and how gender affects the relationships. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the responses obtained from 719 Malaysian students across five…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Entrepreneurship
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Shirai, Toshiaki; Shimomura, Hideo; Kawasaki, Tomotsugu; Adachi, Tomoko; Wakamatsu, Yosuke – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2013
We clarify how individuals actively interact with socio-cultural contexts to attain regular employment in Japan. Based on a large sample (N = 3,512) of part-time employed and unemployed college graduates (23-39 years old), we found that: Career decision making self-efficacy predicted job search; a lack of both hope and fulfillment motivated job…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Search Methods, Unemployment, Social Environment
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Nag, Sonali – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2011
This paper examines the hidden challenges experienced by individuals with special needs during the transition years between school and work. An assessment framework is proposed that covers domains of difficulties, developmental tasks during the transition years, the matrix of support within the home-community-institutions ecosystems, and the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Disabilities, Developmental Tasks, Evaluation
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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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Creed, Peter A.; Wong, Oi Yin; Hood, Michelle – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2009
The study tested the relationship between occupational aspirations/expectations (type and status) and decision-making difficulties, efficacy and career barriers in 498 Chinese high school students. Males aspired to investigative and enterprising types, but expected realistic and enterprising ones; females aspired to enterprising and conventional…
Descriptors: Females, Occupational Aspiration, High School Students, Foreign Countries
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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
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Sheu, Hung-Bin; Lent, Robert W. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2009
The article gives an overview of a social cognitive perspective on psychosocial well-being and adjustment (Lent, 2004), along with a model of educational and work-related satisfaction (Lent & Brown, 2006) that has been derived from it. The theoretical perspective integrates cognitive, behavioural, social, and personality variables hypothesized to…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Personality Traits, Social Cognition, Well Being