Teenage Aspirations for Future Careers and Occupational Outcomes

By I. Schoon, S. Parsons. 2002

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Teenage career aspirations and adult career attainment: The role of gender, social background and general cognitive ability (2011, background): “According to socialization theories young people from more privileged homes have more educational opportunities, greater access to financial resources, role models, occupational knowledge and informal networks (Erikson & Jonsson, 1996; Schoon et al., 2007; Schoon & Parsons, 2002).”
• Adolescent goal content and pursuit: A review of the literature from the past 16 years. (2008, background): “High aspirations in adolescence have been found to be related to greater achievement in young adulthood (Marjoribanks, 1994a, 2003a; Schoon, 2001; Schoon & Parsons, 2002).”
• Career transitions in times of social change. His and her story (2007, background): “This Wnding conWrms the importance of parent-child relations in supporting occupational development of their children in addition and above the economic resources available to the family (Schoon & Parsons, 2002; Vondracek et al., 1986).”
• Juxtaposing math self-efficacy and self-concept as predictors of long-term achievement outcomes (2014, background): “…showed that academic self-concept was a stronger predictor than either parental or student aspirations, that have long been the focus of sociological, educational and psychological research and theory (e.g. Schoon & Parson, 2002; Schoon, Parsons, & Sacker, 2004; Sewell, Haller, & Portes, 1969).”
• Early Occupational Aspirations and Fractured Transitions: A Study of Entry into ‘NEET’ Status in the UK (2010, background): “Furthermore, potential biases from attrition of the sample during childhood are minimal despite underrepresentation of males and individuals from the lowest occupational status (Schoon and Parsons, 2002).”
• Math and Science Social Cognitive Variables in College Students (2008, background): “Clearly, parents directly influence access to learning opportunities and indirectly influence the formation of children’s level of aspirations as well as their ability to realize those aspirations (Schoon & Parsons, 2002).”
• The Relationship Between Career Variables and Occupational Aspirations and Expectations for Australian High School Adolescents (2007, unknown): “Schoon and Parsons (2002) argued that the traditional emphasis on individual factors in the development of occupational aspirations does not sufficiently recognise the constraints of the social circumstances within which adolescents aspire, emphasising that for many adolescents, “vocational…”
• Get an Apprenticeship before School Is Out: How German Adolescents Adjust Vocational Aspirations When Getting Close to a Developmental Deadline (2002, background): “Strong evidence was obtained for the prediction that adolescents use a strategy of matching vocational aspirations to their school achievement (see also Schoon & Parsons, 2002, this volume).”
• Socioeconomic Adversity, Educational Resilience, and Subsequent Levels of Adult Adaptation (2004, background): “Teenage aspirations in particular have shown to influence educational attainment and are a vital predictor of adult occupational status (Clausen, 1993; Elder, 1968, 1999; Schneider & Stevenson, 1999; Schoon & Parsons, 2002).”
• Career success: The role of teenage career aspirations, ambition value and gender in predicting adult social status and earnings (2010, methodology): “…parents’ educational aspirations for their children and the career aspirations, ambitions, and educational performance of their children is predicted (De Civita, Pagani, Vitaro & Tremblay, 2004; Erikson & Jonsson, 1996; Schoon et al., 2007; Schoon & Parsons, 2002; Pizzolato & Slatton, 2007).”
• Study choice and career development in STEM fields: an overview and integration of the research (2015, background): “2002) and socio-historical studies (Schoon and Parsons 2002), it has become clear that such perceived barriers can be overcome.”