This study examined career profiles derived from students’ engagement in school, academic aspirations and sources of career exploration, as part of a larger research project on the differentiation and promotion of students’ engagement in school (Pest-OE/CED/UI4107/2011). The sample included 685 students attending sixth, seventh, ninth and tenth grades (Mage = 13.82, SD = 1.92). The students completed measures o...
The reason that girls and women withdraw from science and technology education and careers has been a universal concern in the social sciences. This study investigated how gendered constructions of identity are translated into the barriers and fears that female students and professional women experience in decision-making about their careers. We conducted interviews with 63 girls and 39 women in academic and pr...
Career self-management can be an important contribution for entrepreneurship as an attitude and for the consequent adjustment and professional satisfaction (Loureiro, 2012). For this reason, we carried out a career intervention, in the form of a seminar, with the main goal of promoting career self-management competences. That is, career adaptability in its dimensions of concern, control, curiosity and confidenc...
This study aims to evaluate the Career Self-Management Seminar, version B. This is a psychological intervention model, developed to support PhD students in the improvement of crucial skills for effective career problem solving and decision making. Sample included 63 PhD’s, (49 experimental group, 14 control group), from both sexes (44 women, 19 men), and with ages ranging from 22 to 49 years old (M=29.7; SD=6.7...
Chapter 1- Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling in the Schools: Career-life Planning For All Bryan Hiebert University of Calgary, Canada Young people today are facing a very different world than their teachers and parents faced as adolescents. Technology is doubling every two years. The top 10 jobs in de¬mand in 2010 did not exist in 2004. We are preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist,...
In this study, we explored main dilemmas psychologists face in career counselling in two main professional settings: employment and education. Participants included 24 experienced Portuguese psychologists, working in employment (n = 14) and educational (n = 10) settings. We used consensual qualitative research to conduct and analyse semi-structured interviews. Results revealed dilemmas’ in five domains: neutral...
Social competence is a multidimensional construct with an important role in adolescents´ career development. It allows the establishment of positive relations with adults and peers, the acquisition of information and feedback relevant to career exploration and decision-making, and it helps to cope with day-to-day challenges, by the adoption of positive social behaviors. This study aims to present and discuss th...
This work is financed by National Founds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, in the context of the project PTDC/CPE-CED/114362/2009- Students Engagement in Schools: Differentiation and Promotion, coordinated by Prof. Feliciano H. Veiga. ; Context: The importance of student’s engagement has been recently pointed out in research. However, there has been a lack of engagement assessment instrument,...
This work is financed by National Founds through FCT-Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, in the context of the project PTDC/CPE-CED/114362/2009- Students Engagement in Schools: Differentiation and Promotion, coordinated by Prof. Feliciano H. Veiga. ; Students’ Engagement in School has been the focus of debate concerning academic success and school dropout, and pointed out as a mean to address the problems af...
Proceedings from the 2nd Annual Asian Conference on Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences ; The study of self-concept has a long life and is considered one of the oldest areas of research in social sciences and humanities (Marsh and Hattie, 1996).The interest in studying the self-concept comes from the fact that the same constitute the core of personality and existence, and be instrumental in the decision of ...
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