Get an Apprenticeship before School Is Out: How German Adolescents Adjust Vocational Aspirations When Getting Close to a Developmental Deadline

Heckhausen, Jutta; Tomasik, Martin J.

doi:10.1006/jvbe.2001.1864

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“…The scale, originally worded for getting an apprenticeship in a German school-to work transition setting, was changed to refer to educational goals (i.e., career, good job) in general. Previous studies have shown this measure to have adequate measurement properties and validity (Heckhausen and Tomasik 2002;Haase et al 2008;Poulin and Heckhausen 2007). Educational goal engagement consisted of selective primary control, compensatory primary control, and selective secondary control strategies (1 = Strongly disagree; 5 = Strongly agree).…”

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Striving for Educational and Career Goals During the Transition After High School: What is Beneficial?

Heckhausen

Chang

Greenberger

et al. 2012

J Youth Adolescence

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The present study takes a motivational perspective that views youths' educational and career engagement as influential and potentially competing for the same motivational resources in the transition to adulthood. We investigated whether motivational engagement with educational and career goals in the year after high-school graduation was differentially associated with educational, career-related and subjective well-being outcomes 2 and 4 years after school graduation. Our longitudinal study of a multi-ethnic sample of Los Angeles high-school graduates followed participants 2 years (N = 561; 61.5 % female) and 4 years (N = 364; 59.8 % female) after high school graduation. The findings indicate that motivational engagement with educational goals after high school graduation predicted educational attainments and psychological well-being at follow-up 2 and 4 years after graduation, and occupational progress at 4 years after graduation. Work hours assessed shortly after high school graduation were associated with poorer educational outcomes both at 2 and 4 years after high school. Occupational goal engagement was not associated with better outcomes, but predicted less educational attainment 4 years after graduating. Thus, educational goal engagement predicted favorable outcomes, whereas career-related goal engagement for the most part was neutral with some select associations with negative educational outcomes. A strong motivational commitment to educational goals, but not to career goals, is an important component of a successful transition to adulthood.

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Striving for Educational and Career Goals During the Transition After High School: What is Beneficial?

Heckhausen

Chang

Greenberger

et al. 2012

J Youth Adolescence

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“…Although MTLD has informed research on career transitions in younger adults (Poulin and Heckhausen 2007;Heckhausen and Tomasik 2002), it has yet to be studied in the context of retirement. For most individuals, retirement represents a firm developmental deadline for achieving career-related goals.…”

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Understanding retirement: the promise of life-span developmental frameworks

Löckenhoff

2012

Eur J Ageing

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The impending retirement of large population cohorts creates a pressing need for practical interventions to optimize outcomes at the individual and societal level. This necessitates comprehensive theoretical models that acknowledge the multi-layered nature of the retirement process and shed light on the dynamic mechanisms that drive longitudinal patterns of adjustment. The present commentary highlights ways in which contemporary life-span developmental frameworks can inform retirement research, drawing on the specific examples of Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model, Baltes and Baltes Selective Optimization with Compensation Framework, Schulz and Heckhausen's Motivational Theory of Life-Span Development, and Carstensen's Socioemotional Selectivity Theory. Ultimately, a life-span developmental perspective on retirement offers not only new interpretations of known phenomena but may also help to identify novel directions for future research as well as promising pathways for interventions.

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“…Poulin, Hackhausen (2007) differentiate between minor and major life transitions. Apart from the school-to-work transition (Heckhausen, Tomasik, 2002), major life transitions include child birth, emigration or losing someone close to you. A common feature of all these events is the scale of change in the life situation and the necessity to generate a new way of self-fulfi lment.…”

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Self-efficacy beliefs of youth entering the labour market

Kot¹,

Rożnowski²

2012

Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration

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This article presents the psychological meaning of school-to-work transition. Transition to taking up new social roles entails numerous diffi culties, and that is why young people see it as a crisis point. According to researchers one of the predictors of effective transition to the labour market is self-effi cacy.This article presents the two obtaining approaches to the psychology of self-effi cacy beliefs. Both specifi c and generalized self-effi cacy belief are good predictors of human behaviour, which has been repeatedly confi rmed in the studies (main overview in this article).The authors of this compilation have integrated the two dominating approaches into one theoretical model, taking account of the three levels of generality proposed by Rosch. By doing that, a theoretical model has been created which allows for organising self-effi cacy beliefs relating to life roles into a three-level hierarchical structure.

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Get an Apprenticeship before School Is Out: How German Adolescents Adjust Vocational Aspirations When Getting Close to a Developmental Deadline

Cited by 183 publications

References 39 publications

Striving for Educational and Career Goals During the Transition After High School: What is Beneficial?

Striving for Educational and Career Goals During the Transition After High School: What is Beneficial?

Understanding retirement: the promise of life-span developmental frameworks

Self-efficacy beliefs of youth entering the labour market

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