Career Success: The Role of Teenage Career Aspirations, Ambition Value and Gender in Predicting Adult Social Status and Earnings

Autor/inn/en	Ashby, Julie S.; Schoon, Ingrid
Titel	Career Success: The Role of Teenage Career Aspirations, Ambition Value and Gender in Predicting Adult Social Status and Earnings
Quelle	In: Journal of Vocational Behavior, 77 (2010) 3, S.350-360 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0001-8791
DOI	10.1016/j.jvb.2010.06.006
Schlagwörter	Social Status; Family Characteristics; Occupational Aspiration; Socioeconomic Background; Gender Differences; Academic Achievement; Adults; Adolescents; Models; Sex Role; Occupational Mobility; Job Satisfaction; Followup Studies; Salaries + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialer Status; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Sozioökonomische Lage; Geschlechterkonflikt; Schulleistung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Analogiemodell; Geschlechterrolle; Berufliche Mobilität; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Follow-up studies; Kontaktstudium; Entlohnung; Gehalt
Abstract	Links between family social background, teenage career aspirations, educational performance and adult social status attainment are well documented. Using a contextual developmental framework, this article extends previous research by examining the role of gender and teenage ambition value in shaping social status attainment and earnings in adulthood. Drawing on data from an 18-year British follow up study we tested a path model linking family background factors (such as family social status and parental aspirations) and individual agency factors in adolescence (in particular, career aspirations and ambition value) to social status attainment and earnings in adulthood. The findings suggest that ambition value is linked to adult earnings. That is, young people for whom it is important to get on in their job earn more money in adulthood than their less ambitious peers. The findings also confirm that teenage career aspirations are linked to adult social status attainment, and suggest that family background factors, teenage career aspirations and ambition value interact to influence social status attainment and earnings in adulthood. Gender differences are discussed. (Contains 2 figures and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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