Career Decision Making, Stability and Actualization of Career Intentions: The Case of Entrepreneurial Intentions
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In: Journal of Career Assessment, Vol. 21, No. 4, 11.2013, p. 555-571.
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T1 - Career Decision Making, Stability and Actualization of Career Intentions
T2 - The Case of Entrepreneurial Intentions
AU - Hirschi, Andreas
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - Career counselors are often concerned with stability and likelihood of implementation of clients' career intentions. It is often assumed that the status in career decision making (CDM) is one likely indicator; yet, empirical support for this assumption is sparse. The present study focused on entrepreneurial career intentions (EI) and showed that German university students (N = 1,221), with high EI can be found in very different empirically derived CDM statuses that range from preconcern to mature decidedness. Longitudinal analyses (n = 561) showed that career choice foreclosure (high decidedness/low exploration) related to more EI stability and that mature decidedness (high decidedness/high exploration) amplified effects of EI on opportunity identification, a form of EI actualization. The results imply that CDM statuses are useful to estimate stability and actualization of career intentions.
AB - Career counselors are often concerned with stability and likelihood of implementation of clients' career intentions. It is often assumed that the status in career decision making (CDM) is one likely indicator; yet, empirical support for this assumption is sparse. The present study focused on entrepreneurial career intentions (EI) and showed that German university students (N = 1,221), with high EI can be found in very different empirically derived CDM statuses that range from preconcern to mature decidedness. Longitudinal analyses (n = 561) showed that career choice foreclosure (high decidedness/low exploration) related to more EI stability and that mature decidedness (high decidedness/high exploration) amplified effects of EI on opportunity identification, a form of EI actualization. The results imply that CDM statuses are useful to estimate stability and actualization of career intentions.
KW - Business psychology
KW - career decision making
KW - career intentions
KW - entrepreneurial intention
KW - vocational identity
KW - career decision making
KW - career exploration
KW - career intentions
KW - entrepreneurial intention
KW - vocational identity
KW - Gender and Diversity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84884633868&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1069072712475287
DO - 10.1177/1069072712475287
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 21
SP - 555
EP - 571
JO - Journal of Career Assessment
JF - Journal of Career Assessment
SN - 1069-0727
IS - 4
ER -