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Children's Vocational Development: A Research Rationale
Author(s) -
Porfeli Erik J.,
Hartung Paul J.,
Vondracek Fred W.
Publication year - 2008
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.2161-0045.2008.tb00163.x
Subject(s) - vocational education , neglect , psychology , psychological intervention , developmental psychology , foundation (evidence) , set (abstract data type) , pedagogy , political science , psychiatry , computer science , law , programming language
Vocational development research and interventions have focused primarily on adolescents and young adults. The lack of attention to career development antecedents in children has led to a serious neglect of this period of life when the foundation is laid for career choices and outcomes in later life. A harmful by‐product is the frequent preclusion of gender‐atypical occupational pathways by boys and especially by girls. To address this situation, the authors recommend identifying a core set of constructs that describe children's vocational development and developing sound instruments to measure them, leading to a longitudinal study ranging from childhood to early adulthood.