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Continuity in Life‐Span Career Development: Career Exploration as a Precursor to Career Establishment
Author(s) -
Jepsen David A.,
Dickson Ginger L.
Publication year - 2003
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.2161-0045.2003.tb00603.x
Subject(s) - clarity , career development , coping (psychology) , psychology , cognitive information processing , life span , developmental psychology , exploratory research , career counseling , social psychology , applied psychology , gerontology , clinical psychology , medicine , sociology , biochemistry , chemistry , anthropology
The authors examined continuity in career development from adolescence to middle adulthood by testing the proposition that early developmental task‐coping activity predicts later task‐coping activity. One hundred forty‐six rural high school graduates reported career exploratory activity in 9th grade and 12th grade, occupational choice clarity in 12th grade, and occupational establishment activity 25 years later. Controlling for gender, school grades, and verbosity, occupational choice clarity predicted midcareer establishment activity. The prediction models were somewhat different by gender.