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- Title
The Meaning of Work During the Transition From Vocational Education and Training to Employment .
- Authors
Masdonati, Jonas; Fournier, Genevieve; Lahrizi, lmane Z.
- Abstract
The authors of this article investigated the meaning of work for yotmg adults tran- sitioning from vocational education and training to employment. Meaning of work was operationalized as the combination of work centrality and purposes. Sixty-four young adults were interviewed at the end of their vocational education and training and after their integration into the labour market. Qualitative analyses indicated that the centrality of work ranged from high to low and that their work purposes were of five types: earning money, growing, structuring life, contributing to society, and socializing. Quantitative analyses showed that overall the meaning of work did not change through the transition process and that work had a higher relative centrality for men than for women. These results stress the inlportance of considering the va- riety of functions and degrees of importance that young adults confer to work when entering the labour market as well as the importance of integrating the concept of work meaning within cotu1selling research and interventions.
- Subjects
VOCATIONAL education; YOUNG adults; LABOR market; EMPLOYMENT; CENTRALITY
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy / Revue Canadienne de Counseling et de Psychothérapie, 2021, Vol 55, Issue 4, p413
- ISSN
1923-6182
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.47634/cjcp.v55i4.71206