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- Title
Career Goals and Retention-Related Factors Among College Freshmen.
- Authors
Hull-Blanks, Elva; Kurpius, Sharon E. Robinson; Befort, Christie; Sollenberger, Sonja; Nicpon, Megan Foley; Huser, Laura
- Abstract
The relationships of four types of career goals (job related, school related, value related, and unknown) with factors of school retention, academic performance, self-esteem, educational self-efficacy, and school and career commitment are studied among 401 first-semester college freshmen. Differences in types of goals based on gender are also considered. Students reporting job-related goals are more likely to make positive persistence decisions than students reporting unknown goals. Men are more likely to report value-related goals than women, whereas women are more likely to report job-related goals than men. Implications of these findings for those working in college settings that help foster students' career development and academic success are discussed.
- Subjects
CAREER development; COUNSELING; COLLEGE freshmen; SEMESTER system in education; SELF-esteem; COLLEGE students
- Publication
Journal of Career Development, 2005, Vol 32, Issue 1, p16
- ISSN
0894-8453
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0894845305277037