OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Three psychological traits and protean career orientation: a sequential mediation study based on the derivative view of protean career concept	24
Validation of the Korean version of the nonwork orientations scale	23
The influence of social connectedness and meaning in life on career adaptability and career self-efficacy in students with special educational needs	19
Beyond job placement: careers for refugees	17
Aspects of refugee students’ financial path to academic achievement in higher education	15
The role of character strengths of wisdom, career adaptability and optimism on future orientation	13
Prolonged grief and career adaptability of university students through meaning making and coping styles	12
Understanding the determinants and consequences of perceived employability in graduate labor market in China	11
Measuring college information in secondary students and higher education access	10
Using visual stimuli in narrative career interventions: effects of image-supported storytelling on interview anxiety and performance	10
How psychological and organizational factors shape career motivation: the serial mediating roles of career adaptability and the quality of work life	10
Will I ever fit in? The trajectories of person–environment fit of vocational students to their school program	9
Announcements	9
Relationship to Work Questionnaire: Validation Among French Canadian Workers	9
Career counsellors’ perspectives on educational mobility in Denmark	9
Virtual reality in vocational interventions: a systematic literature review	8
Adaptation of the Meaning of Life and Meaning of Work counseling program in Denmark with youth facing multiple life transitions	8
How does career calling impact teachers’ self-efficacy, competencies and satisfaction? A structural equation model	8
Career anxiety as a barrier to life satisfaction among undergraduate students: the role of meaning in life and self-efficacy	7
Protean career processes in young adults: Relationships with perceived future employability, educational performance, and commitment	7
Qualitative longitudinal research in vocational psychology: a methodological approach to enhance the study of contemporary careers	7
Perceived employability profiles and their relations to adaptivity, adaptability, and adapting: a person-centered approach	7
How do family influence on career choices and perceived social support affect students’ life satisfaction in Turkey? The role of vocational outcome expectations as mediator	6
Professional identity construction in Turkish academics: a mixed methods investigation with international theoretical implications	6
The roles of COVID-19 diagnosis and COVID-19 stress on the links among academic support, academic self-efficacy, and academic satisfaction: Boundary conditions	6

Correction: Preschool education undergraduates’ choice of major and career in China	6
How does perceived social support affect the career satisfaction of Chinese college graduates in their early careers? A chain mediation model	6
Navigating uncertainty: how do parenting and grit influence career indecisiveness among Indian emerging adults?	6
How protean career orientation affects career decidedness: The mediating role of career adaptability and career decision self-efficacy	6
School-to-work transition: putting non-cognitive skills in context. The case of NEET and suggestions for policy	5
Career experts' conceptions of systems development in lifelong guidance	5
Work and the future as represented by French adolescents: the role of secondary school type and anticipated duration of post-secondary education	5
Deconstruction and career psychology	5
Can i still dream of a decent work? the interplay of economic constraints, perceived employability, and social support	5
Correction: Thinking styles and career adaptability: The moderating role of perceived career support	5
Influence of parental career support on the professional identity of Chinese University Freshmen: The mediating roles of career adaptability and career construction behaviours	5
Motivating entrepreneurial learning: moderation of problem-solving efficacy	5
Adolescent educational and occupational anxiety: A three-dimensional model to fit into an attachment framework	4
Life construction in the Anthropocene context: qualitative research in nine countries	4
The intersections of migration, app-based gig work, and career development: implications for career practice and research	4
Sociocultural and contextual determinants of science career goal at a community college and baccalaureate-granting institution	4
Perceived overqualification of college graduates: assessing antecedents, outcomes, and boundary conditions	4
Correction: Career-related teacher support and decision to choose teaching as a career: a three-wave study of Nigerian and Zambian university students	4
Psychometric properties of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale in Italian young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET)	4
Predictors and consequences of career adaptability of gig workers	4
Assessing the effects of career construction counseling on career adaptability for graduate students of business administration	4
Decent work in Poland: a preliminary study. Suggestions for educational and counselling practice	4
STEM career interests of Ghanaian adolescents in the context of social cognitive career theory	4
Higher education orientation in Türkiye: a cross-educational questionnaire validation and reliability study	4
The socioeconomic gap in the development of Korean adolescents’ occupational aspirations while approaching the post-secondary transition	4
Cultural translation of career decision-making: understanding practitioners’ perspectives from a multinational study on social and emotional learning	4
The interactive effects of self- and parent-referenced career goal discrepancies on young adults’ career indecision	4
The association between work and family importance and job search behavior among career-interrupted men and women	4
Psychometric properties of the Childhood Career Development Scale among Iranian elementary school students	4
Social support and career adaptability: a meta-analysis	3
Academic engagement, academic self-efficacy and instructor support in higher education: impacts on postgraduate career intention	3
It is never too late: understanding career shocks–career development nexus from affective events theory	3
A longitudinal study of relations among apprentices’ nonwork orientation, decent work, and job satisfaction	3
Construction and initial validation of the scale “Goals for Future Design of the 2030 Agenda”	3
Perspectives of the future, identity, and career constructions among college students in the face of the climate crisis: an outlook from Southern countries	3
The impact of lack of parental career engagement on the career planning ability of vocational high school students: the chain mediating role of career social support and career self-efficacy	3
Males in nurse technician programs: a social cognitive analysis of gender differences in career development	3
Uncertainty against Industry 4.0 and job insecurity: the moderated role of perceived employability, age, and educational level	3
Linking career exploration and decision self-efficacy to career engagement: a sequential mediation model of career adaptability and career calling	3
Psychological empowerment, work–family facilitation, and job satisfaction among PE teachers: the moderating role of work–family segmentation preferences	3
‘I Know What I Want, But It is a Hard Road Ahead’: adolescents’ future education and careers	3
Announcements	3
Career development theories in practice: a thematic analysis of practitioner perceptions of the benefits of theoretically informed practice	3
Graduates’ career choices: an empirically derived process model	3
A narrative inquiry into the meaning of career identity of Indian emerging adults amid Covid-19	3
Career counsellors’ professional agency when working with migrants	3
Exploring the meaning of education for university students: a longitudinal interpretative phenomenological analysis (LIPA) perspective	3
The underlying career values of young adults’ protean and traditional career orientations	3
Interest and its associations with university entrance grades, lecturers’ perceived support, and student dropout	3
Enhancing employability: a group career intervention protocol for unemployed individuals	3

The path to decent work: exploring career identity, career self-efficacy, and organizational career support in the face of ostracism	3
A test of the career construction model of adaptation in a sample of Turkish undergraduate students: a two-wave longitudinal mediation study	2
Fluent or discriminated? English language and experiential sources of career self-efficacy among Asian international students in the United States	2
Elite athletes’ environment and their capability to plan and prepare a career transition out of sport	2
Undergraduate students’ career resources: Validation of the Italian version of the career resources questionnaire	2
Career counseling in schools: experiences and perspectives of career counselors	2
The dynamic of adaptation from school to the workplace among men who were sexually abused in childhood and/or adolescence (MSACA)	2
A study of the online job search experiences of first-generation college students in global majority systems	2
The mediating role of self-regulation planning and motivation to learn in the relationship between protean career orientation and career behaviors	2
Understanding career-designing experiences of North Korean immigrant youths in South Korea	2
Is hybrid work beneficial for employees?	2
The role of cognitive flexibility in job search behaviour: a research agenda	2
Narrative based online career group counseling program: an explanatory sequential design	2
An exploration of tensions amongst career guidance practitioners when it comes to the conceptualisation of digital technology	2
Impact of social support dimensions on academic self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and persistence intentions of students from diverse disciplines	2
Understanding viewpoints of employability: an ecological systems theory analysis based on three stakeholder groups	2
What predicts a country’s proportion of adolescents with health career expectations? A cross-national study	2
A validation study on the planned happenstance career inventory among Chinese overseas students in South Korea	2
From secondary school to college: evolution of vocational indecision and contributions of motivations in vocational decision-making	2
The relationship between career-related future time orientation and employment outcomes: a time-lagged study	2
Work–family conflict influences on preschool teachers’ work engagement through psychological detachment: explicit and implicit evidence	2
Career crafting assessment scale in the Turkish context: validation and psychometric properties	2
When meaning matters more than risk: the role of life and educational meaningfulness in students’ climate action	2
I would prefer not to: a qualitative investigation of adolescents’ perceptions of dirty work in Switzerland	2
Reciprocal relations between self-esteem, class engagement, and career calling: evidence from a two‐wave longitudinal study	2
When perceiving and living a calling misalign: antecedents and outcomes of calling profiles among Chinese secondary school teachers	2
The relationship among career self-efficacy, negative emotion regulation expectancies, coping, and emotional experience of college student athletes	2
Empowering futures: navigating career-specific parental behaviors, calling, and planning among senior clinical medical students	2
Multidimensional measure of employability: internal structure and associations with motivational and emotional features in unemployed persons	2
Career education and development scales for primary school and junior secondary school students	2
Data mining to detect variables associated with the occupational aspirations of Spanish 15-year-old students	2
The contribution of family influence and self-efficacy to future perceptions of young adults living in Israel	1
Testing an integrative model of work–family conflict, social cognitive variables, and job and life satisfaction among Korean teachers	1
Primary and secondary school students’ career aspirations and job automation-related risks	1
Application of the system theory framework to the career development of Korean university students	1
Not being in education, employment, or training (NEET) in a collectivist Turkish culture: exploring the experiences of social studies teachers	1
Really shocks can’t be ignored: the effects of career shocks on career development and how family support moderates this relationship?	1
Guidance and education, an analysis of young peoples’ discontinuous school pathways: the guidance-oriented approach of educational institutions	1
Developing problem-solving efficacy and job performance: Moderation of knowledge-oriented leadership	1
Announcements	1
Academic self-efficacy and career decision-making self-efficacy: effects on academic major satisfaction via career optimism	1
Correction to: From academic achievement to career development: does self‐regulated learning matter?	1
Social cognitive predictors of Chinese high school teachers’ occupational well-being and turnover intention	1
Perceived support and influences in adolescents’ career choices: a mixed-methods study	1
From corrections to career: addressing adverse childhood experiences in career education for youth in secure placement facilities	1
Weighing between desirability and feasibility: characteristics of adolescents’ self–other decision-making in the context of college application	1
Announcements	1
Work volition and academic satisfaction in Chinese female college students: the moderating role of incremental theory of work volition	1
Positive psychological capital and university students’ entrepreneurial intentions: does gender make a difference?	1
Student Career Construction Inventory (SCCI): Brazilian validity evidence using item response theory	1
How do differences in perceived social support enhance students’ career choices? Revisit the social cognitive career theory	1
From self and career perceptions to life satisfaction: A sequential mediation approach to general self-efficacy, future work self, career anxiety, and life satisfaction in the emerging workforce	1
Supporting children’s career aspirations under changing career conditions: a systematic review of intervention approaches	1
The economy and career choices scale: Construction and initial validation	1
How does Mind–Body Bridging support professional identity development?	1
The influence of career indecision on life satisfaction among grade 12 Ontario students: career choice support as mediator and moderator	1
Exploring supports and constraints to school counselors’ practices through Q-methodology research	1
Work hope among rural Latinx and White youth: the role of beliefs in a just America, class inequality, and educational meritocracy	1
The Career Decision-Making Adaptability Score: Exploration and validation of its predictive power for subjective and objective career success	1
Relationship between proactive personality and career choice anxiety in college students: a mediated moderation model	1
How ecological factors affect student learning: the mediating role of mental health	1
Optimizing vocational identity status and job search behavior via career-related practical skills training in electrical/electronic technology education	1
Why do so few individuals with an autism spectrum disorder attend university? A case of Türkiye	1
Additional evidence for decent work scale: invariance and relations with sociodemographic, adaptability, work well-being, and burnout	1
Corporate social responsibility and performance in the workplace: a meta-analysis	1
The psychology of working: first evidence with Brazilian workers	1
Power of shared success: how can sharing success and roles of others motivate African women in STEM?	1