Perceived Influences on High School Students' Current Career Expectations

By H. K. Paa, E. McWhirter. 2000

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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Perceived Barriers and Postsecondary Plans in Mexican American and White Adolescents (2007, background): “…1990; Birch & Ladd, 1997; Constantine et al., 2005; Epstein, Connors, & Salinas, 1993; Farmer, 1985; Kenny et al., 2003; McWhirter et al., 1998; Paa & McWhirter, 2000; Rodriguez, 1994; Tinajero, 1994), and parent interventions that increase the support parents are able to provide their…”
Psychological Capital and Career Outcomes among Final Year University Students: the Mediating Role of Career Engagement and Perceived Employability (2020, background): “There exist several influences on careers and career expectations of children including parents, friends, counselors, teachers, the school, contexts, and personal factors (e.g., Paa and McWhirter 2000; Whiston and Keller 2004).”
Examining Contextual Factors in the Career Decision Status of African American Adolescents (2005, background): “Parental attitudes and support have been reported to play a significant role in the occupational behaviors of adolescents and young adults (e.g., Dillard & Campbell, 1981; Fisher & Griggs, 1995; Fisher & Padmawidjaja, 1999; McMahon, Carroll, & Gillies, 2001; Otto, 2000; Paa & McWhirter, 2000).”
Parental Influences on Young Women’s Certainty about Their Career Aspirations (2007, background): “The current study findings are consistent with past work that indicates that parents are important influences on female adolescents’ career development (Otto, 2000; Paa & McWhirter, 2000).”
Development and Validation of the Family Influence Scale (2010, background): “…influences career development in a number of expected ways, such as providing role modeling and emotional support, and research indicates that family members have a stronger influence on career development than peers, even in adolescence (e.g., Kotrlik & Harrison, 1989; Paa & McWhirter, 2000).”
Self-Efficacy and Vocational Outcome Expectations for Adolescents of Lower Socioeconomic Status: A Pilot Study (2005, result): “Additionally, peer support was found to be an important predictor of vocational/educational self-efficacy, a finding that is consistent with previous research suggesting that adolescents consider peers to be an important influence in the career development process (e.g., Paa & McWhirter, 2000).”
Family Influence on Career Decision Making (2016, background): “Among those factors, family influence has been given increasing attention (e.g., Paa & McWhirter, 2000; Schulenberg, Vondracek, & Crouter, 1984; Whiston & Keller, 2004).”
The Influences of the Family of Origin on Career Development (2004, unknown): “A descriptive study by Paa and McWhirter (2000) revealed that 1st- and 2ndyear high school students were most likely to report that compared with other influences, their same-sex parent had the most effect on their career expectations.”
Measuring Perceived Teacher Support and Its Influence on Adolescent Career Development (2008, methodology): “Adolescents rank the influence of teachers on their career choices behind that of family or peers (Paa & McWhirter, 2000) and perceive less support from teachers than from other personal relationships (Farmer, 1985; Furman & Buhrmester, 1992).”
Self-Authorship and Women's Career Decision Making (2005, background): “Multiple studies have shown parental support for technical education and careers to be very influential for girls (Manitoba Department of Education and Training, 2000; O’Brien et al., 2000; Paa & McWhirter, 2000; Shashaani, 1997).”
A Longitudinal Study of the Educational and Career Trajectories of Female Participants of an Urban Informal Science Education Program (2004, background): “... may have influenced the educational and career trajectories of individual students such as belief in one’s own science ability (Bandura et al., 2001; Eccles, 1994; Hackett & Byars, 1996; Paa & McWhirter, 2000; Schoon, 2001), an intrinsic interest in SMET (Perrone et al., 2001), valuing math and ”