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Interest Gaps in the Labor Market: Comparing People’s Vocational Interests with National Job Demands
Vocational interest assessments are widely used to determine which jobs might be a good fit for people. However, showing a good fit to particular...
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Are Gender Differences in Vocational Interests Universal?: Moderating Effects of Cultural Dimensions
Are men and women more similar or different in their interests in careers? This question has propelled decades of research into the association...
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Children’s vocational interests: The first psychometric validation of the multilingual iconographic professional interests inventory (MIPII) in Iran
Professional interests play an essential role in professional choices, educational and career counseling, and person-environment fit. The...
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Factors Influencing Career Interests and Choices of High School Adolescents in Tamale, Northern Ghana
Each year, thousands of high school adolescents in Ghana apply for placement into senior high schools via the Computerised School Selection and...
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The General Factor of Personality (GFP) and Vocational Interests: a Test of Social Effectiveness at the Behavioral and Genetic Level
Previous studies have examined how personality models (e.g., Big Five, HEXACO) relate to vocational interests. We adopt a novel approach by testing...
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Vocational Identity of Emerging Adults: The Inter-Relationships of Vocational Identity Dimensions
Vocational identity develops through the complex and dynamic interactions of the subdimensions of identity. A four-wave longitudinal study was...
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Bidirectional and longitudinal associations between academic motivation and vocational indecision
Vocational indecision has been found to be either a predictor or a consequence of academic motivation, but no study has examined whether the two...
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Predicting trajectories of vocational indecision from motivational profiles in early adolescence
Background, objective and hypothesesDuring emerging adulthood, vocational indecision (i.e., the inability to make coherent career choices) develops...
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Vocational Personality in Romantic Relationships: How Vocational Similarity Contributes to Couple Functioning
In the early 1980s, three studies had found that vocational similarity between romantic partners was significantly associated with couple adjustment....
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Exploring the Role of Therapeutic Alliance and Client Functioning in Vocational Rehabilitation Engagement Among Clients with Mental Disabilities
Strong client engagement in vocational rehabilitation programs is key to achieving vocational success for individuals with mental disabilities....
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A Systematic Review of Vocational Preference Assessment Research by Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
ObjectivesIndividuals with developmental disabilities (DD) may have limited vocational preference choice making opportunities. The utility of...
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Where Does Hope Lie? The Dialectical Tensions Between Hopes and Expectations of Vocational Transition Planning from the Perspectives of Autistic Young Adults, Parents, and Practitioners
The post-secondary transition for autistic youth is a complex process, with hopes and expectations serving as malleable mediators often overlooked in...
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Examining the congruence hypothesis in vocational interest research: the case of teacher students
According to the congruence hypothesis, job and study satisfaction will be higher when individual interests and the respective environment (both...
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Vocational Interventions for Individuals with ASD: Umbrella Review
Adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are disproportionately unemployed in comparison to adults without disabilities. In this umbrella review,...
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Black-White differences in vocational interests: Meta-analysis and boundary conditions
The present study investigated whether Black and White Americans differed on the dimensions of Holland’s RIASEC model of vocational interests....
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Meta-analysis of Vocational Skills Intervention in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders
In order to propose intervention methods that can effectively improve the vocational skills of adolescents with autism spectrum disorders,...
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Character strengths, moral motivation and vocational identity in adolescents and young adults: a sco** review
Past reviews have examined the association between positive personality traits known as character strengths and work-related outcomes. However,...
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Vocational Outcomes in ASD: An Examination of Work Readiness Skills as well as Barriers and Facilitators to Employment Identified by Autistic Adults
Little is known about work readiness skills among autistic adults. This study sought to address this by examining work readiness skills and their...
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Parent-Adolescent Vocational Aspiration Congruence and its Relations with Academic Adjustment
Adolescents’ own vocational aspirations and those of parents for their adolescent children play significant roles in adolescents’ development. The...
