The purpose of this study was to explore Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and its relevance to the... more The purpose of this study was to explore Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and its relevance to the career development of students from the perspectives of educators in Turkey. The participants inclu...
Research studies suggest the importance of some developmental assets in promoting positive youth ... more Research studies suggest the importance of some developmental assets in promoting positive youth development: studies on Social and Emotional Learning have shown the benefits of acquiring these competencies on academic performance and well-being. In addition, future orientation emerged as a dimension that impacts on nonadaptive behaviors and educational performance but also on the agency they recognize themselves over their life trajectory and goals, reach greater academic achievement. Limited evidence is available on the role of and relationships between the developmental assets mentioned in primary school children. The study aims to deepen our understanding on how do these developmental assets vary in primary school children and what are the relationships between Social Emotional Competences that primary school children recognize themselves and both school engagement and future orientation. Data collected in a psychoeducational action promoted by the PSSmile project (Social-Emotional Capacity Building in Primary Education, http://smile.emundus.lt/) were used to address these questions. A hundred and fifty four, 8 to 11 years old, primary school students participated in the study. Direct and indirect, qualitative and quantitative tools have been used to address the study issues. The analyses confirm the specific patterns that characterize the two age groups. Specific relationships and patterns of association emerge between main dimensions of Social Emotional Competences, Positive Experiences and belonging at school, and Future Orientation. The need to address these issues early in primary school and understand the variability that may lead to vulnerability in the development emerge, and, stemming also from current societal challenges and consequences of the global pandemic, to promote educational and prevention actions.
This report provides the view of both experts and lecturers, that is the needs of professionals f... more This report provides the view of both experts and lecturers, that is the needs of professionals from the side of those who everyday face complex requests and those who are entitled of providing education and training both for the professionals of the future and those who search for a deeper understanding of their professional role. Given the specificity of the Italian context which is characterized by a high variability in the needs and requests of migrants and refugees, it can help providing a glance of the main trends that characterize career counseling for migrants and refugees in Europe.
During early adolescence, individuals engage in exploring educational opportunities, beginning to... more During early adolescence, individuals engage in exploring educational opportunities, beginning to develop a career identity, contemplate future careers, and make tentative career decisions. Choices made during this period may have a strong effect on one’s academic and career future, and in many countries, young adolescents must make important and sometimes final academic and career choices that impact the rest of their lives. Despite this, research on early adolescence is severely lacking. To address this gap, a validation study of the Childhood Career Development Scale (CCDS) was conducted with a young adolescent Italian sample. Consistent with previous research with younger samples, support was found for an eight-factor structure of the CCDS. Convergent validity was supported by positive associations with exploration, students’ ideas, attitudes, and behaviors regarding their academic and career future and career self-efficacy. These findings support Super’s dimensional model of ch...
This study was an examination of the validity of Krumboltz's Career Beliefs Inventory in a sa... more This study was an examination of the validity of Krumboltz's Career Beliefs Inventory in a sample of Italian high school students ( N = 256). The factor structure was examined at the item level using exploratory factor analysis. A five-factor structure emerged during analysis highlighting beliefs about Career Confidence, Career Activity, Career Independence, Career Flexibility, and Career Positivity. These factors appear to have little overlap with the results of other studies examining American and other cross-national samples. The factor scores were correlated with several career measures to aid interpretation.
Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration, 2019
Moral sensitivity, the ability to recognize ethical issues when they arise in practice, is a key ... more Moral sensitivity, the ability to recognize ethical issues when they arise in practice, is a key premise for career practitioners’ professional conduct of Career Guidance Counselling (CGC). Due to the diversity of ethical issues related to CGC and the situational contingency of ethical problems, the assessment of moral sensitivity is challenging. The purpose of this article is to develop a novel measure of moral sensitivity, consisting of triad judgment tasks, to assess whether career practitioners are capable of identifying ten ethical issues related to the CGC practice. In this article, we present our theoretical approach, the development phases of the Guidance Ethical Sensitivity Test (GUEST) and the first administration of the GUEST. The reliability was assessed by performing Polychoric Correlations and Categorical Principal Components Analysis (CATCPA). Administrations showed that ethics experts and most groups with ethics training scored significantly higher than others withou...
The Network for Innovation in Career Guidance and Counselling in Europe (NICE) involves 45 partne... more The Network for Innovation in Career Guidance and Counselling in Europe (NICE) involves 45 partners from 29 European countries.
Disability was traditionally considered as something a person has, such as a disease, a negative ... more Disability was traditionally considered as something a person has, such as a disease, a negative trait, or a deficit. In the last few years the conviction has become more popular that it is more correct and productive to refer to an ecological-behavioural view (Soresi, Nota & Wehmayer, 2011). The World Health Organization has played an important role in changing the way disability is understood through the International Classification of Functioning (ICF; WHO, 2001). Thus, emphasis has been placed on what people with impairments can actually do, on their levels of participation, their real community inclusion, their quality of life (Lawthom & Goodley, 2005;
Family support has been found to influence both career self-efficacy beliefs and career decision ... more Family support has been found to influence both career self-efficacy beliefs and career decision making. The purpose of this study was to verify whether career search self-efficacy could mediate the relationship between family support and career indecision.Using a sample of 253 Italian youth, the study found that, for male adolescents attending a university-preparation high school, career search self-efficacy partially mediated the relationship between family support and career indecision. Contrary to expectations, for female adolescents there was no direct relationship between family support and career indecision; however, family support was directly associated with career search self-efficacy and career search self-efficacy was associated with career indecision.
Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration, 2020
Moral sensitivity, the ability to recognize ethical issues when they arise in practice, is a key ... more Moral sensitivity, the ability to recognize ethical issues when they arise in practice, is a key premise for career practitioners' professional conduct of Career Guidance Counselling (CGC). Due to the diversity of ethical issues related to CGC and the situational contingency of ethical problems, the assessment of moral sensitivity is challenging. The purpose of this article is to develop a novel measure of moral sensitivity, consisting of triad judgment tasks, to assess whether career practitioners are capable of identifying ten ethical issues related to the CGC practice. In this article, we present our theoretical approach, the development phases of the Guidance Ethical Sensitivity Test (GUEST) and the first administration of the GUEST. The reliability was assessed by performing Polychoric Correlations and Categorical Principal Components Analysis (CATCPA). Administrations showed that ethics experts and most groups with ethics training scored significantly higher than others without ethics training. Future GUEST validations and implications for CGC research, training and policy are discussed.
Our considerations, in reply to Giangreco, Doyle and Suter’s (2012) paper, are grouped into diffe... more Our considerations, in reply to Giangreco, Doyle and Suter’s (2012) paper, are grouped into different sections: reflections related to the history of inclu sion in Italy that have led to disassociate the ‘special’ visions, and accept the necessity to adopt, together with quantitative analyses, qualitative and con textual approaches that also take into account socio-economic contexts; the importance of those individuals who mediate in school contexts (i.e. teachers, parents and children) their attitudes and beliefs, referring to recent theoretical models (e.g. Life Design) that emphasize narrative and life stories; the need of using indices for assessing inclusion experiences that take into account their complexity; the importance of sustaining future practitioners, and their efforts toward school inclusion to avoid that excessive attention to special educational needs that can become a “threat”. In the conclusions, we will summarize some of our reactions, hoping they also will be ab...
The purpose of this study was to explore Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and its relevance to the... more The purpose of this study was to explore Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and its relevance to the career development of students from the perspectives of educators in Turkey. The participants inclu...
Research studies suggest the importance of some developmental assets in promoting positive youth ... more Research studies suggest the importance of some developmental assets in promoting positive youth development: studies on Social and Emotional Learning have shown the benefits of acquiring these competencies on academic performance and well-being. In addition, future orientation emerged as a dimension that impacts on nonadaptive behaviors and educational performance but also on the agency they recognize themselves over their life trajectory and goals, reach greater academic achievement. Limited evidence is available on the role of and relationships between the developmental assets mentioned in primary school children. The study aims to deepen our understanding on how do these developmental assets vary in primary school children and what are the relationships between Social Emotional Competences that primary school children recognize themselves and both school engagement and future orientation. Data collected in a psychoeducational action promoted by the PSSmile project (Social-Emotional Capacity Building in Primary Education, http://smile.emundus.lt/) were used to address these questions. A hundred and fifty four, 8 to 11 years old, primary school students participated in the study. Direct and indirect, qualitative and quantitative tools have been used to address the study issues. The analyses confirm the specific patterns that characterize the two age groups. Specific relationships and patterns of association emerge between main dimensions of Social Emotional Competences, Positive Experiences and belonging at school, and Future Orientation. The need to address these issues early in primary school and understand the variability that may lead to vulnerability in the development emerge, and, stemming also from current societal challenges and consequences of the global pandemic, to promote educational and prevention actions.
This report provides the view of both experts and lecturers, that is the needs of professionals f... more This report provides the view of both experts and lecturers, that is the needs of professionals from the side of those who everyday face complex requests and those who are entitled of providing education and training both for the professionals of the future and those who search for a deeper understanding of their professional role. Given the specificity of the Italian context which is characterized by a high variability in the needs and requests of migrants and refugees, it can help providing a glance of the main trends that characterize career counseling for migrants and refugees in Europe.
During early adolescence, individuals engage in exploring educational opportunities, beginning to... more During early adolescence, individuals engage in exploring educational opportunities, beginning to develop a career identity, contemplate future careers, and make tentative career decisions. Choices made during this period may have a strong effect on one’s academic and career future, and in many countries, young adolescents must make important and sometimes final academic and career choices that impact the rest of their lives. Despite this, research on early adolescence is severely lacking. To address this gap, a validation study of the Childhood Career Development Scale (CCDS) was conducted with a young adolescent Italian sample. Consistent with previous research with younger samples, support was found for an eight-factor structure of the CCDS. Convergent validity was supported by positive associations with exploration, students’ ideas, attitudes, and behaviors regarding their academic and career future and career self-efficacy. These findings support Super’s dimensional model of ch...
This study was an examination of the validity of Krumboltz's Career Beliefs Inventory in a sa... more This study was an examination of the validity of Krumboltz's Career Beliefs Inventory in a sample of Italian high school students ( N = 256). The factor structure was examined at the item level using exploratory factor analysis. A five-factor structure emerged during analysis highlighting beliefs about Career Confidence, Career Activity, Career Independence, Career Flexibility, and Career Positivity. These factors appear to have little overlap with the results of other studies examining American and other cross-national samples. The factor scores were correlated with several career measures to aid interpretation.
Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration, 2019
Moral sensitivity, the ability to recognize ethical issues when they arise in practice, is a key ... more Moral sensitivity, the ability to recognize ethical issues when they arise in practice, is a key premise for career practitioners’ professional conduct of Career Guidance Counselling (CGC). Due to the diversity of ethical issues related to CGC and the situational contingency of ethical problems, the assessment of moral sensitivity is challenging. The purpose of this article is to develop a novel measure of moral sensitivity, consisting of triad judgment tasks, to assess whether career practitioners are capable of identifying ten ethical issues related to the CGC practice. In this article, we present our theoretical approach, the development phases of the Guidance Ethical Sensitivity Test (GUEST) and the first administration of the GUEST. The reliability was assessed by performing Polychoric Correlations and Categorical Principal Components Analysis (CATCPA). Administrations showed that ethics experts and most groups with ethics training scored significantly higher than others withou...
The Network for Innovation in Career Guidance and Counselling in Europe (NICE) involves 45 partne... more The Network for Innovation in Career Guidance and Counselling in Europe (NICE) involves 45 partners from 29 European countries.
Disability was traditionally considered as something a person has, such as a disease, a negative ... more Disability was traditionally considered as something a person has, such as a disease, a negative trait, or a deficit. In the last few years the conviction has become more popular that it is more correct and productive to refer to an ecological-behavioural view (Soresi, Nota & Wehmayer, 2011). The World Health Organization has played an important role in changing the way disability is understood through the International Classification of Functioning (ICF; WHO, 2001). Thus, emphasis has been placed on what people with impairments can actually do, on their levels of participation, their real community inclusion, their quality of life (Lawthom & Goodley, 2005;
Family support has been found to influence both career self-efficacy beliefs and career decision ... more Family support has been found to influence both career self-efficacy beliefs and career decision making. The purpose of this study was to verify whether career search self-efficacy could mediate the relationship between family support and career indecision.Using a sample of 253 Italian youth, the study found that, for male adolescents attending a university-preparation high school, career search self-efficacy partially mediated the relationship between family support and career indecision. Contrary to expectations, for female adolescents there was no direct relationship between family support and career indecision; however, family support was directly associated with career search self-efficacy and career search self-efficacy was associated with career indecision.
Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration, 2020
Moral sensitivity, the ability to recognize ethical issues when they arise in practice, is a key ... more Moral sensitivity, the ability to recognize ethical issues when they arise in practice, is a key premise for career practitioners' professional conduct of Career Guidance Counselling (CGC). Due to the diversity of ethical issues related to CGC and the situational contingency of ethical problems, the assessment of moral sensitivity is challenging. The purpose of this article is to develop a novel measure of moral sensitivity, consisting of triad judgment tasks, to assess whether career practitioners are capable of identifying ten ethical issues related to the CGC practice. In this article, we present our theoretical approach, the development phases of the Guidance Ethical Sensitivity Test (GUEST) and the first administration of the GUEST. The reliability was assessed by performing Polychoric Correlations and Categorical Principal Components Analysis (CATCPA). Administrations showed that ethics experts and most groups with ethics training scored significantly higher than others without ethics training. Future GUEST validations and implications for CGC research, training and policy are discussed.
Our considerations, in reply to Giangreco, Doyle and Suter’s (2012) paper, are grouped into diffe... more Our considerations, in reply to Giangreco, Doyle and Suter’s (2012) paper, are grouped into different sections: reflections related to the history of inclu sion in Italy that have led to disassociate the ‘special’ visions, and accept the necessity to adopt, together with quantitative analyses, qualitative and con textual approaches that also take into account socio-economic contexts; the importance of those individuals who mediate in school contexts (i.e. teachers, parents and children) their attitudes and beliefs, referring to recent theoretical models (e.g. Life Design) that emphasize narrative and life stories; the need of using indices for assessing inclusion experiences that take into account their complexity; the importance of sustaining future practitioners, and their efforts toward school inclusion to avoid that excessive attention to special educational needs that can become a “threat”. In the conclusions, we will summarize some of our reactions, hoping they also will be ab...
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