Individual-Level Predictors of Young Children's Aspirations

Autor/inn/en	Moulton, Vanessa; Flouri, Eirini; Joshi, Heather; Sullivan, Alice
Titel	Individual-Level Predictors of Young Children's Aspirations
Quelle	In: Research Papers in Education, 33 (2018) 1, S.24-41 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Moulton, Vanessa)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0267-1522
DOI	10.1080/02671522.2016.1225797
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Predictor Variables; Young Children; Occupational Aspiration; Fantasy; Gender Differences; Racial Differences; Personality Traits; Learner Engagement; Cognitive Ability; Socioeconomic Status; Cohort Analysis; Hypothesis Testing; Models; Correlation; Multiple Regression Analysis; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Prädiktor; Frühe Kindheit; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Fantasie; Geschlechterkonflikt; Rassenunterschied; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Denkfähigkeit; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Kohortenanalyse; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Analogiemodell; Korrelation; Großbritannien
Abstract	Often young children already have some ideas about what they want to do in the future. Using data from a large UK cohort study, we investigated the individual determinants of seven-year-old children's aspirations, controlling for parental socio-economic background and parental involvement in learning. At age 7, not all children's aspirations were unrealistic (55.6% of children aspired to common occupations), few (1.2%) were fantasy, but most were gender-typical. White children had lower occupational aspirations and were more likely to have uncertain future orientations than other ethnic groups. The antecedents of fantasy aspirations, more typical of younger children, were difficult temperament and low school engagement. Uncertain aspirations were related to higher cognitive ability but also to lower school engagement. Higher occupational aspirations were directly related to higher family socio-economic status, and higher occupational and more intrinsic aspirations were associated with more school engagement (in turn, higher in girls and ethnic minority children). Boys, compared to girls, had lower, more extrinsic and more masculine aspirations, but were also more likely than girls to aspire to rare jobs and have fantasy or uncertain aspirations. (As Provided).
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