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Title: Aspiration-Job Match: Age Trends in a Large, Nationally Representative Sample of Young White Men
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Gottfredson, Linda S. |
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Aspiration-Job Match: Age Trends in a Large, Nationally Representative Sample of Young White Men Journal of Counseling Psychology 26 (1979): 319-328. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022016707626935 Cohort(s): Young Men Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Education, Guidance and Counseling; Holland's Typology; Job Aspirations; Vocational Guidance; Vocational Training Age trends in the match between vocational aspirations and actual jobs were studied, in a nationally representative sample of 3,730 white men 16-28 years old who were interviewed yearly over a 5-year period. As the men aged, higher agreement between jobs and aspirations (classified according to Holland's typology) occurred. In addition, the distributions of both aspirations and actual jobs differed with age. Larger proportions of the older men were engaged in enterprising work, and the distribution of aspirations, which at age 16 diverged markedly from the distribution of jobs, resembled that distribution more closely by age 28. Implications for changing strategies of vocational counseling and research are discussed. |
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Gottfredson, Linda S. "Aspiration-Job Match: Age Trends in a Large, Nationally Representative Sample of Young White Men." Journal of Counseling Psychology 26 (1979): 319-328.
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