There is an increased interest in vocational psychology and career counseling regarding the link between career development and well-being, yet, little is known about how different ways to achieve well-being or happiness relate to career development. This study explored the relationship between 3 orientations to happiness (meaning, pleasure, and engagement) and vocational identity achievement a...

Over the past decade, there has been growth in the delivery of vocational rehabilitation services globally, as countries seek to control disability-related expenditure, yet there has been minimal research outside the United States on competencies required to work in this area. This study reports on research conducted in Australia to determine current job function and knowledge areas in terms of...

OBJECTIVE To determine the factors affecting the smoking habits of high school students, their thoughts about changes resulting from anti-smoking laws, and how they are affected by those laws. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 11th-grade students at eight high schools in Ankara, Turkey, were invited to complete a questionnaire. RESULTS A total of 1,199 students completed the questionna...

BACKGROUND How the career commitment of medical university students can be improved is an underinvestigated topic. AIM This experimental study aims to explore the factors that influence career commitment of medical university students. METHODS One hundred eighty-two medical university students completed the vocational value questionnaire, state anxiety scale, core self-evaluation scale, Min...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of problem gambling in a population of youths in Switzerland and to determine its association with other potentially addictive behaviours. METHODS Cross-sectional survey including 1,102 participants in the first and second year of post-compulsory education, reporting gambling, socio-demographics, internet use and substance use. For three categories of gambli...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the behavioural effects of a school-based healthful diet promotion intervention implemented in lower vocational schools. DESIGN A cluster-randomised pre-test-post-test experimental design was used, and data were collected by means of written questionnaires. SETTING Students of 18 Dutch lower vocational schools. SUBJECTS The final sample consis...

This study aimed at measuring the perceptions of vocational education students regarding the application of national vocational teacher standards in randomly selected vocational education classes. The instrument developed for this study was based on the National Standards for Vocational Teachers in Jordan (2006), which included seven dimensions represented by 52 items. The study surveyed 280 vo...

This study aimed to find the extent of correlation between learning habits with students' English achievement. The research sample was taken from students in third grade multimedia class, which consisted 40 students. SPSS v25.0 used for analyzing data. A test carried out that yielded r-count value 0.414 whereas, r-table at significant 5% N= 0.312. It thus proved data analysis greater than R tab...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between leisure time physical activity over a three year period and health related behaviour, social relationships, and health status in late adolescence as part of a nationwide longitudinal study. METHODS Five birth cohorts of adolescent twins aged 16 at baseline (n = 5028; 2311 boys and 2717 girls) participated in the study. Questionnaires on leisure tim...