Sex, status, and generic interests in fields of work, parents and offspring, and fields of study

Naylor, F. D.; Elsworth, Gerald; Care, Esther; Harvey-Beavis, Adrian

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“…Mid year academic results were obtained from school records in the form of average grade for each subject in which a student was enrolled. Using a well-researched classification (Care & Naylor, 1984;Naylor, Elsworth, Care, & Harvey-Beavis, 1997) each subject was allotted to its associated RIASEC theme as shown in Table 1. This classification of school subjects into RIASEC themes has been shown to have concurrent validity in relation to vocational interest preferences, and predictive validity in terms of later subject selection (Elsworth et al, 1999) and university/college entry (Care, 1996).…”

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The Relationship Between Vocational Interests, Self-Efficacy, and Achievement in the Prediction of Educational Pathways

Patrick

Care

Ainley

2010

Journal of Career Assessment

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The influence of vocational interest, self-efficacy beliefs, and academic achievement on choice of educational pathway is described for a cohort of Australian students. Participants were 189 students aged 14—15 years, who were considering either academic or applied learning pathways and subject choices for the final 3 years of secondary school. Using Holland’s interest model within a social cognitive career theory (SCCT) framework, logistic regression analyses indicated that all three constructs were significant predictors of pathway and subject selection and enrolment. The best predictive model for students with strong Realistic interests was an interaction of self-efficacy and interest. For Investigative students, both self-efficacy and achievement were best predictors and for Artistic, Social, and Conventional, achievement was the best predictor of future course enrolment. The results of this research offer partial support for the theory of Lent, Brown, and Hackett in that a variable pattern of associations between vocational interest, self-efficacy, and achievement emerged across the Holland interest themes.

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The Relationship Between Vocational Interests, Self-Efficacy, and Achievement in the Prediction of Educational Pathways

Patrick

Care

Ainley

2010

Journal of Career Assessment

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the realism and sex type of four- to five-year-old children's occupational aspirations

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Deans

Brown

2007

Journal of Early Childhood Research

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Research on career development has focused primarily on adolescents and adults. However, in Gottfredson's theory of circumscription and compromise (2002) it is proposed that career aspirations originate in the preschool years and that the earliest work aspirations of children are sex typed in relation to the activities of same sex adults. This article investigates young children's career development in the context of Gottfredson's stage theory. Eighty-four children attending a kindergarten/early learning centre for four- to five-year-old children exhibited sex typing of their aspirations, with the vast majority nominating real occupational roles as opposed to fantasy ones, as aspirations for adult life. The pattern of boys' and girls' aspirations differentially support Gottfredson's proposals. Questions are raised concerning the stability of patterns of aspirations in terms of sex type in a changing society.

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Sex, status, and generic interests in fields of work, parents and offspring, and fields of study

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The Relationship Between Vocational Interests, Self-Efficacy, and Achievement in the Prediction of Educational Pathways

The Relationship Between Vocational Interests, Self-Efficacy, and Achievement in the Prediction of Educational Pathways

the realism and sex type of four- to five-year-old children's occupational aspirations

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