Journal article
Career Goals and Retention-Related Factors Among College Freshmen
Journal of Career Development, Vol.32(1), pp.16-30
09/2005
DOI: 10.1177/0894845305277037
Abstract
The relationships of four types of career goals (job related, school related, value related, and unknown) with factors of school retention, academic performance, self-esteem, educational self-efficacy, and school and career commitment are studied among 401 first-semester college freshmen. Differences in types of goals based on gender are also considered. Students reporting job-related goals are more likely to make positive persistence decisions than students reporting unknown goals. Men are more likely to report value-related goals than women, whereas women are more likely to report job-related goals than men. Implications of these findings for those working in college settings that help foster students’ career development and academic success are discussed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Career Goals and Retention-Related Factors Among College Freshmen
- Creators
- Elva Hull-Blanks - Arizona State UniversitySharon E. Robinson Kurpius - Arizona State UniversityChristie Befort - Arizona State UniversitySonja Sollenberger - Arizona State UniversityMegan Foley Nicpon - Arizona State UniversityLaura Huser - Arizona State University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of Career Development, Vol.32(1), pp.16-30
- Publisher
- Sage Publications; Thousand Oaks, CA
- DOI
- 10.1177/0894845305277037
- ISSN
- 0894-8453
- eISSN
- 1556-0856
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/2005
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
- Record Identifier
- 9983993326002771
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