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Chen, Charles P.; Doherty, Haley – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2023
The career development experiences of rural youth are worthy of specialized attention from career counsellors. While rural youth share many commonalities with their urban counterparts, the rural experience presents distinctions that can influence their life-career decisions. To support career decision-making, career counsellors should be aware of…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Career Development, Career Counseling, Career Choice
Ferrari, Lea; Ginevra, Maria Cristina; Santilli, Sara; Nota, Laura; Sgaramella, Teresa Maria; Soresi, Salvatore – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2015
We explored the perception and actual occupational knowledge of jobs on career exploration across Holland's categories in 60 elementary and 60 middle school students. Results showed a closer relationship between career exploration and actual knowledge than children's perception of knowledge. We found higher levels of actual knowledge and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Exploration, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
Boerchi, Diego; Tagliabue, Semira – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2018
The object of this study was to assess students' perceptions of their parents' career-related behaviours and their influence on the students' behaviours. In study 1 (528 students), we developed the SIL Scale (support, interference and lack of engagement), a nine-item questionnaire applied to educational and job contexts. In study 2 (1204…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Parent Aspiration, Parent Participation, Career Development
Oliveira, Íris M.; Taveira, Maria do Céu; Porfeli, Erik J. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2015
Childhood is a central period for career and social-emotional development. However, the literature covering childhood career development and the role of emotions in careers is scarce. In this article, we advocate for the consideration of emotions in childhood career development. Emotional aspects of children's career exploration, key-figures and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Psychological Patterns, Children, Career Exploration
Rowold, Jens; Staufenbiel, Kathrin – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2010
This paper reports psychometric properties of a German version of the Career Exploration Survey (CES-G). The instrument's 16 scales allow for a detailed description of career exploration. Based on data from two studies (N[subscript 1] = 1023; N[subscript 2] = 816), confirmatory factor analyses supported the 16-factor model. With regard to…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Construct Validity, Psychometrics, German
Hirschi, Andreas; Lage, Damian – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2008
A career workshop that applies models of the Cognitive Information Processing Approach (Sampson, Reardon, Peterson, & Lenz, 2004) and incorporates critical ingredients (Brown and Ryan Krane, 2000) to promote the career choice readiness of young adolescents was developed and evaluated with 334 Swiss students in seventh grade applying a Solomon…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Career Choice, Early Adolescents, Grade 7
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
Maree, Jacobus G. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2022
This article reports on an innovative life design intervention in a developing country context. A group of 31 unemployed youths were selected purposively to participate in the study. A mixed-methods design was adopted and an integrative qualitative-quantitative approach employed to construct and analyse the data. The Maree Career Matrix was used…
Descriptors: Youth, Unemployment, Intervention, Career Exploration
Guichard, Jean – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2022
How could interventions for life- and career-construction contribute to a development that would be ecologically sustainable, socially just and based on decent work activities? Most career interventions today generally only aim to include individuals into the current systems of work and economic exchange without questioning the role that these…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Social Justice, Sustainability, Conservation (Environment)
Skovhus, Randi Boelskifte; Poulsen, Bo Klindt – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2021
This article explores a new approach to career education and career guidance activities within compulsory education, with a shift in focus from students' immediate choices to supporting curiosity and an open-minded expansion of horizons. Sen's concept of capability and approach to social justice plays a central role. A Danish project on career…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Career Guidance, Career Exploration, Career Education
Wong, Chi-Sum; Wong, Ping-Man; Peng, Kelly Z. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2011
In this study, we attempt to investigate the potential effects of parents' career interests on young adults' career interests. Using a sample of 113 freshmen in Hong Kong, results indicated that after controlling for personality, gender, general mental abilities and emotional intelligence, some of the parents' career interests were still related…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Young Adults, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Ability
Vanhalakka-Ruoho, Marjatta – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2010
Relational aspects in the life-designing of young people are the focus of this article. These aspects consist of the involvement and use of one's relational network in life-designing. The data consists of 146 narratives of young people, 111 ninth graders in comprehensive school and 35 students in upper secondary school. The research question…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Adolescents, Grade 9, Secondary School Students