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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The influence of social connectedness and meaning in life on career adaptability and career self-efficacy in students with special educational needs	35
Aspects of refugee students’ financial path to academic achievement in higher education	21
Beyond job placement: careers for refugees	21
How do supported employment programs work? Answers from a systematic literature review	17
Understanding the determinants and consequences of perceived employability in graduate labor market in China	15
Using visual stimuli in narrative career interventions: effects of image-supported storytelling on interview anxiety and performance	15
Prolonged grief and career adaptability of university students through meaning making and coping styles	15
Measuring college information in secondary students and higher education access	15
Career counsellors’ perspectives on educational mobility in Denmark	14
Announcements	13
How does career calling impact teachers’ self-efficacy, competencies and satisfaction? A structural equation model	13
Adaptation of the Meaning of Life and Meaning of Work counseling program in Denmark with youth facing multiple life transitions	12
Qualitative longitudinal research in vocational psychology: a methodological approach to enhance the study of contemporary careers	12
Relationship to Work Questionnaire: Validation Among French Canadian Workers	11
Perceived procedural justice and psychological flourishing among mental health professionals in Macao: a moderated mediation model	11
Career anxiety as a barrier to life satisfaction among undergraduate students: the role of meaning in life and self-efficacy	11
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	10
Correction: Preschool education undergraduates’ choice of major and career in China	10
How does perceived social support affect the career satisfaction of Chinese college graduates in their early careers? A chain mediation model	9
The roles of COVID-19 diagnosis and COVID-19 stress on the links among academic support, academic self-efficacy, and academic satisfaction: Boundary conditions	9
Correction: Thinking styles and career adaptability: The moderating role of perceived career support	8
Correction to: Announcements	8
How protean career orientation affects career decidedness: The mediating role of career adaptability and career decision self-efficacy	8
Emotional anticipation of high school graduation: Similarity of profiles across gender, educational track, and grade	8
Protean career processes in young adults: Relationships with perceived future employability, educational performance, and commitment	8

The socioeconomic gap in the development of Korean adolescents’ occupational aspirations while approaching the post-secondary transition	8
Work and the future as represented by French adolescents: the role of secondary school type and anticipated duration of post-secondary education	8
Investigating career-related teacher support for Chinese secondary school students in Hong Kong	7
Motivating entrepreneurial learning: moderation of problem-solving efficacy	7
Career experts' conceptions of systems development in lifelong guidance	7
Psychometric properties of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale in Italian young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET)	7
Correction: Career-related teacher support and decision to choose teaching as a career: a three-wave study of Nigerian and Zambian university students	6
School-to-work transition: putting non-cognitive skills in context. The case of NEET and suggestions for policy	6
Higher education orientation in Türkiye: a cross-educational questionnaire validation and reliability study	6
Career expectations of international and domestic students in Canada	5
The relationship between social support and career adaptability: the chain mediating role of perceived career barriers and career maturity	5
The intersections of migration, app-based gig work, and career development: implications for career practice and research	5
From career guidance to designing lives acting for fair and sustainable development	5
Full-service schoolteachers’ views of career construction for learners with visual impairment	5
Adolescent educational and occupational anxiety: A three-dimensional model to fit into an attachment framework	5
In the same boat? An online group career counseling with a group of young adults in the time of COVID-19	5
Preschool teachers' attitudes toward career education: the role of cultural context and teaching self-efficacy	5
Purpose and career development: Implications for career counseling and counselor education	4
Decent work in Poland: a preliminary study. Suggestions for educational and counselling practice	4
Perceived overqualification of college graduates: assessing antecedents, outcomes, and boundary conditions	4
Understanding group leader affect as a factor for career education programming	4
Psychometric properties of the Childhood Career Development Scale among Iranian elementary school students	4
Between choices and “going with the flow”. Career guidance and Roma young people in Hungary	4
The interactive effects of self- and parent-referenced career goal discrepancies on young adults’ career indecision	4
The route to employability: a longitudinal study on a sample of Italian job seekers	4
The association between work and family importance and job search behavior among career-interrupted men and women	4
Bringing light to school counselors’ burnout: the role of occupational identity suffering	4
Sociocultural and contextual determinants of science career goal at a community college and baccalaureate-granting institution	4
Parental and school factors on American high school students’ academic and career intentions in STEM fields	4
Males in nurse technician programs: a social cognitive analysis of gender differences in career development	4
Career counsellors’ professional agency when working with migrants	3
Construction and initial validation of the scale “Goals for Future Design of the 2030 Agenda”	3
The labour market integration of migrants and refugees: career guidance and the newly arrived	3
Interest and its associations with university entrance grades, lecturers’ perceived support, and student dropout	3
Career development theories in practice: a thematic analysis of practitioner perceptions of the benefits of theoretically informed practice	3
A narrative inquiry into the meaning of career identity of Indian emerging adults amid Covid-19	3
Social support and career adaptability: a meta-analysis	3
Graduates’ career choices: an empirically derived process model	3
Announcements	3
Facets of adaptability in career decision-making	3
‘I Know What I Want, But It is a Hard Road Ahead’: adolescents’ future education and careers	2
A longitudinal study of relations among apprentices’ nonwork orientation, decent work, and job satisfaction	2
Undergraduate students’ career resources: Validation of the Italian version of the career resources questionnaire	2
The dynamic of adaptation from school to the workplace among men who were sexually abused in childhood and/or adolescence (MSACA)	2
The relationship between career-related future time orientation and employment outcomes: a time-lagged study	2
I would prefer not to: a qualitative investigation of adolescents’ perceptions of dirty work in Switzerland	2
The mediating role of self-regulation planning and motivation to learn in the relationship between protean career orientation and career behaviors	2
Does passion ignite intentions? Understanding the influence of entrepreneurial passion on the entrepreneurial career intentions of higher education students	2
Youth and Children's Orchestras: Analysis of the Educational Experience and Some Reflections from the Field of Lifelong Guidance and Counseling	2
Stories of courage in a group of asylum seekers for an inclusive and sustainable future	2

Elite athletes’ environment and their capability to plan and prepare a career transition out of sport	2
The underlying career values of young adults’ protean and traditional career orientations	2
Uncertainty against Industry 4.0 and job insecurity: the moderated role of perceived employability, age, and educational level	2
A test of the career construction model of adaptation in a sample of Turkish undergraduate students: a two-wave longitudinal mediation study	2
Announcements	2
Promoting access to decent work: career counselors’ experiences with career construction counseling	2
Narrative based online career group counseling program: an explanatory sequential design	2
The role of guidance professionals in enhancing the capabilities of marginalized students: the case of indigenous women in Canada	2
What predicts a country’s proportion of adolescents with health career expectations? A cross-national study	2
Exploring the meaning of education for university students: a longitudinal interpretative phenomenological analysis (LIPA) perspective	2
From academic achievement to career development: does self-regulated learning matter?	2
An exploration of tensions amongst career guidance practitioners when it comes to the conceptualisation of digital technology	2
The role of cognitive flexibility in job search behaviour: a research agenda	2
Career crafting assessment scale in the Turkish context: validation and psychometric properties	2
Multidimensional measure of employability: internal structure and associations with motivational and emotional features in unemployed persons	2
Psychometric properties of the African Career Interest Inventory in Ghana	2
Fluent or discriminated? English language and experiential sources of career self-efficacy among Asian international students in the United States	2
Data mining to detect variables associated with the occupational aspirations of Spanish 15-year-old students	2
The relationship among career self-efficacy, negative emotion regulation expectancies, coping, and emotional experience of college student athletes	2
Reciprocal relations between self-esteem, class engagement, and career calling: evidence from a two‐wave longitudinal study	2
Application of the system theory framework to the career development of Korean university students	1
Validating the implicit theory of work scale: focusing on its role on career-related behaviors and affect in Korean undergraduates	1
Career education and development scales for primary school and junior secondary school students	1
Psychometric properties of the Job Search Behaviour Index (JSBI) in recent university graduates: a Rasch analysis	1
Developing problem-solving efficacy and job performance: Moderation of knowledge-oriented leadership	1
Separate counselling services in Norwegian upper secondary schools. A possibility for a collective holistic approach?	1
Academic self-efficacy and career decision-making self-efficacy: effects on academic major satisfaction via career optimism	1
The influence of career indecision on life satisfaction among grade 12 Ontario students: career choice support as mediator and moderator	1
The psychology of working: first evidence with Brazilian workers	1
Announcements	1
Understanding viewpoints of employability: an ecological systems theory analysis based on three stakeholder groups	1
Working adults' future occupational plans: the contribution of role characteristics, social support, and occupational self-efficacy	1
Understanding career-designing experiences of North Korean immigrant youths in South Korea	1
The contribution of family influence and self-efficacy to future perceptions of young adults living in Israel	1
Enhancing the career development of rural youth	1
Positive psychological capital and university students’ entrepreneurial intentions: does gender make a difference?	1
The Career Decision-Making Adaptability Score: Exploration and validation of its predictive power for subjective and objective career success	1
Primary and secondary school students’ career aspirations and job automation-related risks	1
Pavers of the way: Enablers to a lived calling in an Australian context	1
Work volition and academic satisfaction in Chinese female college students: the moderating role of incremental theory of work volition	1
From secondary school to college: evolution of vocational indecision and contributions of motivations in vocational decision-making	1
Work–family conflict influences on preschool teachers’ work engagement through psychological detachment: explicit and implicit evidence	1
Empowering futures: navigating career-specific parental behaviors, calling, and planning among senior clinical medical students	1
The economy and career choices scale: Construction and initial validation	1
Measuring career adaptabilities in the Brazilian context: development and validation of the CAAS + C Brazilian form	1
Announcements	1
Exploring supports and constraints to school counselors’ practices through Q-methodology research	1
How does Mind–Body Bridging support professional identity development?	1
Relationship between proactive personality and career choice anxiety in college students: a mediated moderation model	1
“If I won the lottery…”: work orientations of low-qualified young adults in Albania and Switzerland	1
Enhancing the sense of self of a mid-career woman through career construction counselling	1
Testing an integrative model of work–family conflict, social cognitive variables, and job and life satisfaction among Korean teachers	1
Work hope among rural Latinx and White youth: the role of beliefs in a just America, class inequality, and educational meritocracy	1