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Publication Date: 2004-Dec
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The Effect of Career Interventions Designed to Increase Self-Knowledge on the Self-Concepts of Adolescents
Portnoi, Lisette; Guichard, Jean; Lallemand, Noelle
Journal of Vocational Behavior, v65 n3 p484-497 Dec 2004
This paper reports a study that used a quasi-experimental design to examine if a career intervention designed to increase self-knowledge enabled self-discovery or self-construction, determined by the structure of the personality inventory used. This study, situated within the theoretical model of Markus's research in self-schemata (1977), used instruments that measured the Big Five personality factors. Results showed that after only one exercise designed to increase self-knowledge, high school students in the experimental group elaborated "self-schemata" that encompassed the five dimensions corresponding to the structure of the instrument used. Findings suggested that the self-knowledge tool constituted a sort of structured "looking glass" in which young people saw themselves reflected according to the dimensions in the inventory used.
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Quasiexperimental Design, High School Students, Adolescents, Self Concept, Schemata (Cognition), Career Education, Intervention, Personality Traits, Personality Measures
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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