Development of Interests and Competency Beliefs in Italian Adolescents: An Exploration of Circumplex Structure and Bidirectional Relationships

Autor/inn/en	Lent, Robert W.; Tracey, Terence J. G.; Brown, Steven D.; Soresi, Salvatore; Nota, Laura
Titel	Development of Interests and Competency Beliefs in Italian Adolescents: An Exploration of Circumplex Structure and Bidirectional Relationships
Quelle	In: Journal of Counseling Psychology, 53 (2006) 2, S.181-191 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0167
Schlagwörter	Beliefs; Foreign Countries; Competence; Models; Student Interests; Middle School Students; High School Students; Gender Differences; School Activities; Age Differences; Personality Traits; Child Development; Extracurricular Activities; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Belief; Glaube; Ausland; Kompetenz; Analogiemodell; Studieninteresse; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Kindesentwicklung; Außerunterrichtliche Aktivität; Italien
Abstract	In a cross-national replication and extension of prior research with American students, Italian middle and high school students completed measures of interests and competency beliefs relative to a variety of school- and nonschool-related activities. Both interests and competency beliefs tended to show greater adherence to circumplex Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional (known as RIASEC) structure with increasing age, but this tendency was more pronounced in female than in male students. Interests and competency beliefs were moderately stable over a 1-year interval, with relatively small percentages of participants exhibiting clinically large changes on either variable. Good support was found for a bidirectional model of interest competency belief relationships in both male and female students. Implications for further efforts to understand how interests and competency beliefs develop over time and across cultures are considered. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10