Future aspirations of urban adolescents: a person‐in‐context model

Age Patterns in Mental Representations of Time: Underlying Constructs and Relevant Covariates

“…Women are more accurate than men in estimating their position in the life span relative to their actuarial life expectancy (Hancock, 2010), but show lower levels of future orientation than their male counterparts (Padawer, Jacobs-Lawson, Hershey, & Thomas, 2007). Further, being societally disadvantaged or part of an underrepresented minority limits not only actuarial life expectancy (Murray et al, 2006), but also future thought and planning (Padawer et al, 2007; Sirin, Diemer, Jackson, Gonsalves, & Howell, 2004). …”

Latent class analysis for measuring Turkish People's future expectations for Turkey

“…Also, 21.4% are aged (18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29), 34.4% are (30-44), 32.4% are (45-64), and 11.8% are (65 +). In total, 5.2% do not know how to read or write, 48.3% are primary school graduates, 13.6% secondary school graduates, 19.8% are high school graduates and 13.1% are at least university graduates.…”

“…It is accepted that there is a positive relationship between hope and future expectations. Future expectation is defined as beliefs or expectancies about the likelihood of a specific event occurring in the future [20,28] and is considered influenced by an individual's assessment of contextual factors [22].…”

Perceived Social Support, Career Aspiration and School Engagement of First Generation Learners and Second Generation Learners

“…A student"s aspirations are comprised are of their hopes and goals for their future (Sirin, Diemer, Jackson, Gonsalves & Howell, 2004).Career aspirations are defined as long-term individual work related goals (VandenBos, 2007). For this study, career aspirations have been defined as a concept similar to aspirations in general, educational aspirations, leadership aspirations and achievement aspirations.…”