Children's vocational development: A research rationale

Children's vocational development: A research rationale

Porfeli E J; Hartung P J; Vondracek F W

Career Development Quarterly

2008

2008-09

Vocational development research mid interventions have focused primarily on adolescents and young adults. The lack of attention to career development antecedents in children has led to a serious neglect of this period of life when the foundation is laid for career choices and outcomes in later life. A harmful by-product is the frequent preclusion of gender-atypical occupational pathways by boys and especially by girls. To address this situation, the authors recommend identifying a core set of constructs that describe children's vocational development and developing sound instruments to measure them, leading to a longitudinal study ranging from childhood to early adulthood.

adolescence; career development; exploration; identity development; internet; occupational aspirations; perspective; Psychology; states; web

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