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Life career profiles: values’ functions, career exploration and satisfaction in international students
| Resumo: | Values affect every area of people’s lives, including the vocational one. The career development process takes place throughout life, having particular importance in transitions, such as studying at a foreign university. This study aims to analyse the simultaneous relationships between life values, career exploration and social and academic satisfaction in international students studying in Portugal. Participants included 96 international students (54 women and 42 men), with a mean of ages of 26.5 years (SD = 7.1), who answered an online questionnaire composed by demographic questionnaire, Basic Values Questionnaire, Career Exploration Survey, Social Satisfaction Questionnaire and Academic Satisfaction Questionnaire. The results of a cluster analysis allowed the identification of two distinct life career profiles. The exploratory profile features higher scores on suprapersonal, existence and interactive valorative subfunctions; high exploratory behaviours; higher levels of social and academic satisfaction; and higher involvement in non-academic activities. The conformist profile features high scores on suprapersonal, existence and interactive valorative subfunctions; reduced exploratory behaviours; and lower satisfaction. Career exploration variables were the best in discriminating the profiles. It was concluded that there are specificities in the adjustment of international college students studying in a foreign country. |
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| Autores principais: | Quintão, Adriana da Silva |
| Assunto: | Human values Career exploration Academic satisfaction Social satisfaction Adjustment Valores humanos Exploração da carreira Satisfação académica Satisfação social Ajustamento Ciências Sociais::Psicologia |
| Ano: | 2018 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | Values affect every area of people’s lives, including the vocational one. The career development process takes place throughout life, having particular importance in transitions, such as studying at a foreign university. This study aims to analyse the simultaneous relationships between life values, career exploration and social and academic satisfaction in international students studying in Portugal. Participants included 96 international students (54 women and 42 men), with a mean of ages of 26.5 years (SD = 7.1), who answered an online questionnaire composed by demographic questionnaire, Basic Values Questionnaire, Career Exploration Survey, Social Satisfaction Questionnaire and Academic Satisfaction Questionnaire. The results of a cluster analysis allowed the identification of two distinct life career profiles. The exploratory profile features higher scores on suprapersonal, existence and interactive valorative subfunctions; high exploratory behaviours; higher levels of social and academic satisfaction; and higher involvement in non-academic activities. The conformist profile features high scores on suprapersonal, existence and interactive valorative subfunctions; reduced exploratory behaviours; and lower satisfaction. Career exploration variables were the best in discriminating the profiles. It was concluded that there are specificities in the adjustment of international college students studying in a foreign country. |
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