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The Appreciation of Career Literature in Adolescents
Author(s) -
Billups Arland,
Peterson Gary W.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.1994.tb00938.x
Subject(s) - reading (process) , psychology , cognition , career development , cognitive information processing , developmental psychology , social psychology , pedagogy , linguistics , philosophy , neuroscience
With adolescents, the appreciation of career literature was predicted to relate to their reading skill and cognitive development as well as their need for career information. Forty 11th‐grade and forty 12th‐grade students at a university school read two passages from each of three domains of career literature: short stories, formal literature, and popular literature. The results indicated that both reading skill and cognitive development were related to the extent to which adolescents appreciated three passages in which career information was presented in the form of short stories and personal accounts. Reported need for information to make career choices did not relate to the appreciation of any of the six passages. Implications for theory and practice in the use of career literature are discussed.