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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)
Abkhezr, Peyman; McMahon, Mary; Campbell, Marilyn – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2022
This article reports on a secondary analysis of qualitative research about five African young adults with refugee backgrounds who storied through semi-structured interviews their career transition in the complex, everchanging systems of their migration journeys. Qualitative descriptors of career adaptability and the systems of the Systems Theory…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Young Adults, Refugees, Background
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