The Effects of Television Role Models on the Career Aspirations of African American Junior High School Students

King, Michelle M.; Multon, Karen D.

doi:10.1177/089484539602300202

Cited by 55 publications

(40 citation statements)

References 25 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…A small number of studies have examined how television influences young people's knowledge and perceptions of work, and their occupational aspirations. Television can provide information about work and introduce young people to careers they may not have previously considered (e.g., Huston, Wright, Fitch, Wroblewski, & Piemyat, 1997;King & Multon, 1996;Wright et al, 1995). In addition, television viewing is associated with beliefs about the job activities involved in specific occupations, and with the tendency to believe that occupations on television have more glamour and higher income, but require less effort (e.g., Signorielli, 1993;Wright et al, 1995;Wroblewski & Huston, 1987).…”

Section: Television As Socialization Agentmentioning

confidence: 96%

Socialization to Work in Late Adolescence: The Role of Television and Family

Hoffner

Levine

Toohey

2008

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This survey of college freshmen examines the role of television and family in anticipatory socialization to work. Findings indicate that both sources play a role in the development of work-related values and aspirations, but contribute in different ways. Wishful identification was higher for characters perceived to have higher paying jobs and stronger extrinsic (but not intrinsic) work values. Although causal direction cannot be shown, results suggest that respondents internalized the intrinsic and extrinsic work values they perceived in their parents' jobs, but derived mainly extrinsic work values and desire for easy work from observing their favorite characters at work.

show abstract

Section: Television As Socialization Agentmentioning

confidence: 96%

Socialization to Work in Late Adolescence: The Role of Television and Family

Hoffner

Levine

Toohey

2008

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…It acts as a theoretical framework to provide ideas of socialization agents that can predict consumption behaviours (King and Multon 1996;Martin and Bush 2000). Social learning theory justifies that an individual derives motivation and consequently exhibits favourable attitude from socialisation agents via either direct or indirect social interaction (Subramanian and Subramanian 1995;Moschis and Churchill 1978).…”

Section: Underpinning Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Social Media Influencers on Purchase Intention and the Mediation Effect of Customer Attitude

Lim¹,

Radzol²,

Cheah³

et al. 2017

AJBR

344

258

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Social media influencers are first explored in the advertising field, particularly to create buzz in the younger markets and further expand social media coverage in businesses. This study is designed to investigate the effectiveness of social media influencers, focusing on source credibility, source attractiveness, product match-up, and meaning transfer. Consumer attitude is proposed to mediate between both the exogenous and endogenous relationships. Data collection was designed using the purposive sampling method and the dataset of 200 respondents was then analysed using PLS-SEM technique. All hypotheses are found to be supported except for source credibility. Mediating effects of consumer attitude are also determined. Implications, limitations, and suggestion for recommended research are further discussed.

show abstract

“…The existing research on the factors that influence the career aspirations of children has found evidence that several personal, familial, environmental, and systemic factors can impact children's preferences for future occupations. Specifically, factors such as parents' occupations (Trice, Hughes, Odom, Woods, & McClellan, 1995;Trice & Knapp, 1992), maternal employment (Selkow, 1984), television role models (King & Multon, 1996), gender-role stereotypes (Franken, 1983;Henderson, Hesketh, & Tuffin, 1988;MacKay & Miller, 1982;Vondracek & Kirchener, 1974), socioeconomic status (Awender & Wearne, 1990;Henderson et al, 1988;MacKay & Miller, 1982;Weinger, 2000), quality of the mother-daughter attachment relationship (Rainey & Borders, 1997), agentic characteristics (Rainey & Borders, 1997), and the relative distribution of power in the parental dyad (Lavine, 1982) have been found to impact and shape children's career aspirations.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Perceived influences on the career choices of children and youth: an exploratory study

Howard

Flanagan

Castine

et al. 2015

Int J Educ Vocat Guidance

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Children's understanding of factors influencing their career choices was examined. Seventy-two children, in grades kindergarten, 4, and 8, responded to questions about their perceptions of career influences. Responses were coded to capture the nature of the influences identified, including the global versus specific and linear versus interacting nature of these influences. Further, influences were coded as existing proximal versus distal to the child. Results indicate that older children identified more career influences that were either specific or categorical and interacted in dynamic ways. No evidence was found for older children offering influences that existed at a systems level of organization.Résumé. Influences perçues sur les choix de carrière par les enfants et les jeunes: Une étude exploratoire. Nous avons investigué la compréhension des enfants quant aux facteurs influençant leurs choix de carrière. Septante-deux enfants issus des niveaux 1 er , 4 ème et 8 ème degrés scolaires ont répondu à des questions portant sur leurs perceptions des influences sur les parcours professionnels. Les réponses ont été codées dans le but d'extraire la nature des influences identifiées, y compris la nature globale versus spécifique, et linéaire versus interactive de ces influences. De plus, les influences ont été codées comme étant proximales versus distales vis-à-vis de l'enfant. Les résultats indiquent que les enfants plus âgés ont identifié davantage d'influences de carrière qui étaient soit spécifiques soit catégorielles et qui interagissaient de manière dynamique. Il n'a pas été démontré que les enfants plus âgés proposaient des influences existant à un niveau organisationnel des systèmes. Aucune preuve n'a été trouvée pour les enfants plus âgés proposant des influences qui existaient au niveau des systèmes des organisations.Zusammenfassung. Wahrgenommene Einflüsse auf Karriere/Laufbahnentscheidungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen: Eine explorative Studie. Wir untersuchten das Verständnis von Kindern im Bezug auf Einflussfaktoren bzgl. ihrer beruflichen Laufbahn. 72 Kinder aus dem Kindergarten und Klasse 4 und 8 haben Fragen zu ihrer Vorstellung von Laufbahneinflüssen beantwortet. Die Antworten wurden so kodiert, dass sie die natürlichen Einflüsse identifizieren, sowohl die globalen und die spezifischen, als auch die linearen versus die interaktionalen Einflüsse. Weiter wurden die Einflüsse in proximal und distal codiert. Die Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, dass ältere Kinder mehrere Laufbahneinflüsse identifizieren die entweder spezifisch oder kategorial sind und auf dynamische Weise miteinander interagieren. Es wurden keine Hinweise dafür gefunden, dass ältere Kinder Einflüsse anführen, die sich auf das Systemlevel der Organisation beziehen.Resumen. Influencias detectadas en la elección de carreras entre niñ os y jóve-nes: Un estudio exploratorio. Se examina la comprensión infantil sobre los factores que influyen en la elección de la carrera. 72 niños, de escuelas infantiles, grado 4 y 8, respondieron a preguntas acer...

show abstract

The Effects of Television Role Models on the Career Aspirations of African American Junior High School Students

Cited by 55 publications

References 25 publications

Socialization to Work in Late Adolescence: The Role of Television and Family

Socialization to Work in Late Adolescence: The Role of Television and Family

The Impact of Social Media Influencers on Purchase Intention and the Mediation Effect of Customer Attitude

Perceived influences on the career choices of children and youth: an exploratory study

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About