Have Adolescents Become Too Ambitious? High School Seniors' Educational and Occupational Plans, 1976 to 2000

By J. Reynolds, Michael Stewart, Ryan Macdonald, L. Sischo. 2006

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Is There a Downside to Shooting for the Stars? Unrealized Educational Expectations and Symptoms of Depression (2010, background): “Research on the consequences of unrealized expectations is also needed to judge the scope of the problem of unrealistic achievement expectations among today’s adolescents (Reynolds et al. 2006).”
Egos inflating over time: a cross-temporal meta-analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory. (2008, background): “During the same period, the percentage of high school students who predicted that they would be working in a professional job by age 30 also increased, from 41% to 63% (in reality, only 18% of high school graduates ages 25 to 34 in both eras worked at professional jobs; Reynolds et al., 2006).”
Generational differences in psychological traits and their impact on the workplace (2008, background): “In 1976, only half as many (27 percent) predicted this outcome (Reynolds et al., 2006).”
Framing the Future: Revisiting the Place of Educational Expectations in Status Attainment (2010, background): “…issues their work addressed have currency still; many studies, for example, explore interpersonal influence on students’ expectations (Hao and Bonstead-Bruns 1998; Goyette and Xie 1999) or the pattern of college attendance in relation to students’ expectations (Morgan 2004; Reynolds et al. 2006).”
Narcissism in organizational contexts (2010, background): “First, while society has done very well at raising expectations in the young, reality has not kept up (e.g., Reynolds et al., 2006 and Twenge and Campbell, 2008).”
Generational Increases in Agentic Self-evaluations among American College Students, 1966–2009 (2012, background): “In fact, recent generations are much more likely to expect to earn a graduate degree and work in a professional job by age 30, even though the number who actually do so has remain unchanged (Reynolds et al., 2006).”