Adolescents' Occupational and Educational Aspirations and Expectations: Links to High School Activities and Adult Educational Attainment

Autor/inn/en	Beal, Sarah J.; Crockett, Lisa J.
Titel	Adolescents' Occupational and Educational Aspirations and Expectations: Links to High School Activities and Adult Educational Attainment
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 46 (2010) 1, S.258-265 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0017416
Schlagwörter	Extracurricular Activities; Educational Attainment; Academic Aspiration; Adolescents; Longitudinal Studies; Multiple Regression Analysis; High School Students; Schemata (Cognition); Futures (of Society); Young Adults; Occupational Aspiration + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Außerunterrichtliche Aktivität; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Cognition; Schema; Kognition; Future; Society; Zukunft; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel
Abstract	This longitudinal study explored adolescents' future-oriented cognitions, current activities, and later educational attainment using data from 317 adolescents (55% female; mean age = 14.98 years, SD = 0.85) followed into early adulthood. Aspirations and expectations regarding work and education showed modest stability from year to year. Exploration of the reciprocal relations between these cognitions and adolescents' activities supported both unidirectional and bidirectional effects, with different patterns emerging for aspirations and expectations. In multiple regression analyses, future-oriented cognitions predicted adult educational attainment; follow-up analyses indicated that the effect of adolescents' expectations was partially mediated by participation in extracurricular activities. These results suggest a potentially important influence of adolescents' future-oriented cognitions on their current behavior and future attainments. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10