Vision of Personal Future as a Tool for Supporting Adolescents’ Transition to Adulthood

Polovina, Nada; Jošić, Smiljana

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“…The Vision of Personal Future Questionnaire (Polovina and Jošić, 2019) is a self-reporting instrument consisting of 13 items/statements aimed to assess time-limited, general (abstract and universal) characteristics of adolescents' cognitive representation of the envisioned personal future applicable across different domains. The participants answered questions in terms of the extent of their agreement with presented statements using five-degree scales, where 1 means "do not agree at all'' and 5 means "agree completely''.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, many studies have investigated the predictive potential of thinking about the future when it comes to motivation, attitudes and behaviours in different life domains (Andre et al, 2018). The psychological construct of "visions of personal future" is new in the field of studies that are focused on exploring adolescents' anticipations of future goals related to adulthood (Blue-Banning, Turnbull and Pereira, 2002;Gril et al, 2018;Polovina and Jošić, 2019;Scott, Lonergan, and Munford, 2005). The construct has roots in the field of leadership and organisation development (vision of future, Strange and Mumford, 2002) and fits well into the Positive Youth Development (PYD) paradigm that is followed in the present study (Polovina and Jošić, 2019).…”

Section: Psychological Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The psychological construct of "visions of personal future" is new in the field of studies that are focused on exploring adolescents' anticipations of future goals related to adulthood (Blue-Banning, Turnbull and Pereira, 2002;Gril et al, 2018;Polovina and Jošić, 2019;Scott, Lonergan, and Munford, 2005). The construct has roots in the field of leadership and organisation development (vision of future, Strange and Mumford, 2002) and fits well into the Positive Youth Development (PYD) paradigm that is followed in the present study (Polovina and Jošić, 2019). The PYD is a multidisciplinary, holistic and widely inclusive approach that combines elements of theories of developmental systems, an approach based on the strengths of the individual, and the organisational approach (Larson, 2000;Lerner et al, 2005;Theokas and Lerner, 2006).…”

Section: Psychological Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Mumford (2002, 2005) pointed out that the construct of vision of the future contains both cognitive and motivational-affective components, and accentuates the broadly recognised (Andre et al, 2018) importance of considering both the general and content-specific aspects of the vision. The authors adapted these features and guidelines to the field of individual development, (re)naming the construct as vision of personal future (VPF) and adding new elements relevant for youth development (Polovina and Jošić, 2019). Therefore, the term VPF is defined as an individual's imagery-based construction of a distant but time-limited self-relevant framework that includes a set of idealised future goals and potential ways of their accomplishment.…”

Section: Psychological Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, young people are also constrained by external, structural obstacles (i.e., lack of material and other resources, class inequalities). The current study expands on the previous findings by its interdisciplinary approach explicated through the psychological construct of "visions of personal future" (Polovina and Jošić, 2019;Gril et al, 2018). This approach is used to explore adolescents' general expectations (abstract and universal expectations applicable across different domains) and their domain-specific thinking about their future (i.e., regarding education and career).…”

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confidence: 96%

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Visions of Personal Future among Adolescents with Different Orientations Toward Educational Mobility

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Research of contemporary societies emphasises the importance of global economic circumstances, political uncertainties and social inequalities for young people’s visions of their personal future. This research is focused on general and career-specific aspects of adolescents' visions of personal future and how these relate to adolescents' orientation toward educational mobility. Educational mobility is determined by the equivalence/non-equivalence of parents’ levels of education and their offspring’s educational aspirations as expressed at the end of secondary schooling. According to this principle, three groups of participants were defined and their differences were analysed with respect to (a) general aspects of their visions of personal future, (b) career-specific aspects of their envisioned future, and (c) the perception of factors on which the achievement of career visions will depend. Significant differences among the three groups have been found in general and career-specific visions of the future. The findings of the study indicate that students who plan to attend university are more preoccupied with career and perceive personal characteristics as more important factors for achieving career goals than students without such plans. Finally, this paper suggests that, in order to fully understand young people’s visions of personal future from a micro and a macro perspective, it is fruitful to integrate psychological and sociological approaches.

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Section: Psychological Perspectivementioning

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Section: Psychological Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

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The Effect of Motivational Incentives and Time Perspectives on Predicting Youth Emigration Intentions and the Agency of Potential Migrants: The Case of Serbia

Polovina,

Tošković,

Gundogan

2023

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This article aims to test the predictive potential of frequently researched socio-demographic and motivational incentives and time perspectives as a still unexplored personal-level factor affecting the strength of youth emigration intentions and the agency of potential migrants (i.e., activities related to emigration). We tested the incremental validity of motivational incentives and time perspectives in predicting emigration intention and potential migrants’ agency, after accounting for socio-demographic variables. Furthermore, to strengthen the estimation of the effect of education on outmigration propensity, we included respondents’ grade attainment in their current educational level (upper secondary education), their highest intended level of education, and their parents’ level of education. Drawing on psychosocial conceptualisations (Bandura, 2001; Zimbardo and Boyd, 1999) this quantitative study was conducted on a representative sample of 1973 students enrolled in the final grade of upper secondary schools in Serbia. A three-step hierarchical multiple regression analysis was employed for this purpose. The results reveal that emigration intention, as well as potential migrants’ agency, cannot be predicted only based on socio-demographic characteristics. However, motivational incentives are important correlates of both emigration intention and migrants’ agency. Social motivation¬al incentives tend to reduce both emigration intention and migrants’ agency, while economy-related motivational incentives tend to increase emigration intention and migrants’ agency. On the other hand, while time perspectives are not significantly agency. Concretely, present hedonistic and future time perspective orientations tend to increase migrants’ agency. The findings indicate the need for a more differentiated approach in theoretical, empirical and policy considerations.

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The Content of the Attitudes “I Am Now” and “I Am an Adult” in Adolescents with Different Characteristics of Personal Maturity

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Introduction. In the modern world, there is an expansion of the spectrum of transition trajectories to adulthood in adolescents and young people as well as the increased importance of “subjective markers of adulthood”, which represent a set of qualities of a “mature personality”. There is no idea about the specifics of the growing up trajectories among modern adolescents, taking into account their psychological characteristics. The purpose of the article is to investigate the quantitative and qualitative indicators of the images “I am now” and “I am an adult” in adolescents with different levels of personal maturity. Materials and Methods. The survey involved 1 097 adolescents aged between 13 – 17. The method of contrast groups by the Self-assessment Scale of personal maturity allowed to identify subgroups of adolescents with high and low levels of personal maturity. The quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the attitudes “I am now” and “I am an adult” obtained by the modified “Who am I?” technique were compared in these subgroups. Results. Regardless of the characteristics of personal maturity, adolescents include more elements in the attitudes “I am now” than in “I am an adult”; the core of both attitudes includes mainly the characteristics of the socio-demographic, formalized and individualized Self. Differences between the subgroups of adolescents with HPM and LPM include: different age dynamics of the number of elements in the attitudes “I am now” and “I am an adult” (a consistent decrease in the number of elements in adolescents with HPM against an absence of significant changes in the sample of their peers with LPM), as well as a more significant contribution of the characteristics of social-role functioning in attitudes “I am now” and “I am an adult” in adolescents with HPM. Discussion and Conclusion. The research contributes to the understanding of the psychological characteristics of modern adolescents who are at the stage of transition to adulthood. The results will be useful for the practice of psychological and pedagogical support of growing up and psychological counseling on personal self-determination in adolescence.

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Vision of Personal Future as a Tool for Supporting Adolescents’ Transition to Adulthood

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Visions of Personal Future among Adolescents with Different Orientations Toward Educational Mobility

Visions of Personal Future among Adolescents with Different Orientations Toward Educational Mobility

The Effect of Motivational Incentives and Time Perspectives on Predicting Youth Emigration Intentions and the Agency of Potential Migrants: The Case of Serbia

The Content of the Attitudes “I Am Now” and “I Am an Adult” in Adolescents with Different Characteristics of Personal Maturity

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