Striving for Educational and Career Goals During the Transition After High School: What is Beneficial?

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1385-1398

  Heckhausen, Jutta ^a   Chang, Esther S ^b   Greenberger, Ellen ^a   Chen, Chuansheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOKA UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Career goals; Control striving; Educational goals; Motivation; Transition after high school; Work school conflict

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATISFACTION; SCHOOL; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ASPIRATIONS (PSYCHOLOGY); CAREER CHOICE; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GOALS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOLS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881541760     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-012-9812-5     Document Type: Article

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