VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND CAREER IN THE APPLIED SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCHES

• Main Author: Tamara V. Hovorun
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Information Technologies and Learning Tools 2010-08-01
• Series: Інформаційні технології і засоби навчання
• Subjects: social-psychological researches; vocational education; gender differences; intrinsic and extrinsic career success
• Online Access: http://journal.iitta.gov.ua/index.php/itlt/article/view/218

Theoretical and empirical advances in the major vocational and career development studies have been reviewed. The main ideas and important implications for helping young people make correspondent choices and address problems in satisfaction after occupational entry. There are ongoing concerns about real and potentional gender differences in career development. Individual differences measures are central in the field of vocational psychology and can be used to predict job performance, career choice and intrinsic and extrinsic career success.