Effects of grade level, community of residence, and sex on adolescent career interests in the zone of acceptable alternatives

Hall, Alex; Kelly, Kevin R.; Buren, Janis B. Van

doi:10.1007/bf02105393

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“…Similarly, lawyers are highly visible in our culture and being a lawyer is often thought to be synonymous with being wealthy. Previous research has also indicated that the economic situation of a community, and the specific job types available in that community, have a powerful influence on the aspirations and expectations of the young people living there (Cook et al, 1996;Furlong & Cartmel, 1995;Hall, Kelly, & Van Buren, 1995). The young mothers in our study may have a unique combination of delayed vocational development and minimal exposure to employment types.…”

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confidence: 67%

African American Adolescent Mothers' Vocational Aspiration-Expectation Gap: Individual, Social and Environmental Influences

Hellenga

Aber

Rhodes

2002

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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This study investigated the vocational aspirations and expectations of 160 African American adolescent mothers living in urban poverty. Discriminant function analysis was used in an attempt to distinguish between participants with, and those without, a discrepancy between their vocational aspirations and expectations. The two groups were found to be distinct in several ways. Depressive and anxious symptoms along with childcare provided by relatives, were associated with a gap between aspirations and expectations. Higher grade point averages, living with biological parents, and having a career mentor were more often associated with a match between expectations and aspirations. A combination of factors, including psychological functioning, social support, achievement, and contextual factors specific to the tasks of teen parenting, should be considered in future attempts to understand and describe adolescent mothers' vocational development.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 67%

African American Adolescent Mothers' Vocational Aspiration-Expectation Gap: Individual, Social and Environmental Influences

Hellenga

Aber

Rhodes

2002

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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“…Others found that poorly differentiated interests are related to less conscientiousness but more openness for university students (Bullock & Reardon, 2008;De Fruyt & Mervielde, 1997). Several studies also investigated group differences in interest differentiation and found that female college students and career clients have generally more differentiated interests than males (Fouad & Mohler, 2004;Miner et al, 1997), students in 11th grade show more differentiated interests than students in 8th grade (Hall, Kelly, & Van Buren, 1995), or that adjudicated adolescents showed lower differentiation than a normative sample (Glaser, Calhoun, Bates, & Bradshaw, 2003). No general differences were found among ethnic groups or between students with an immigration background and native-born students (Fouad & Mohler, 2004;Hirschi & Läge, 2007).…”

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Development and Criterion Validity of Differentiated and Elevated Vocational Interests in Adolescence

Hirschi

2009

Journal of Career Assessment

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Interest differentiation and elevation are supposed to provide important information about a person's state of interest development yet little is known about their development and criterion validity. The present study explored these constructs among a group of Swiss adolescents. Study 1 applied a cross-sectional design with 210 students in eleventh grade. Study 2 applied a one-year longitudinal design with 289 students in seventh to eighth grade. Gender, personality traits, and career exploration were significant predictors of state and development of differentiation and elevation. Increase in differentiation predicted increase in career decidedness above traits. Elevation could not predict increase in exploration behavior over traits. The results provide support for differentiation and elevation as important aspects of adolescents' vocational interests.

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“…The choice of sex as a blocking variable was motivated by the extensive literature showing differences between male and female adolescents in career-related constructs (e.g., Betz & Fitzgerald, 1987;Farmer & Chung, 1995;Fouad & Spreda, 1995;Galotti, Kozberg, & Appleman, 1990;Kelly, 1993;Luzzo, 1995;Melamed, 1995;Patton & Creed, 2002;Tuck, Rolfe, & Adair, 1994). The rationale for examining validities by grade level is based on many studies showing differences in career variables and construct relations between different grade levels (e.g., Busacca & Taber, 2002;Gassin, Kelly, & Feldhusen, 1993;Hall, Kelly, & Van Buren, 1995;Helwig, 2002;Wallace-Broscious, Serafica, & Osipow, 1994). Accordingly, the following two research questions were also investigated in the present study.…”

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An Investigation of Big Five Personality Traits and Career Decidedness Among Early and Middle Adolescents

Lounsbury¹,

Hutchens²,

Loveland

2005

Journal of Career Assessment

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Big Five personality traits were analyzed in relation to career decidedness among adolescents in middle and high school. Participants were 248 7th-grade, 321 10thgrade, and 282 12th-grade students. As hypothesized, Conscientiousness was positively and significantly correlated with career decidedness in all three grades. Openness and Agreeableness were found to be positively related to career decidedness for these middle and high school students. Emotional Stability was positively, significantly related to career decidedness for the 12th-grade sample. There were no significant differences in correlational results for males versus females. No significant mean differences in career decidedness were observed between the three grades. Results are discussed in terms of implications for future research and career development efforts.

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Effects of grade level, community of residence, and sex on adolescent career interests in the zone of acceptable alternatives

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

African American Adolescent Mothers' Vocational Aspiration-Expectation Gap: Individual, Social and Environmental Influences

African American Adolescent Mothers' Vocational Aspiration-Expectation Gap: Individual, Social and Environmental Influences

Development and Criterion Validity of Differentiated and Elevated Vocational Interests in Adolescence

An Investigation of Big Five Personality Traits and Career Decidedness Among Early and Middle Adolescents

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