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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond job placement: careers for refugees	39
Aspects of refugee students’ financial path to academic achievement in higher education	24
The influence of social connectedness and meaning in life on career adaptability and career self-efficacy in students with special educational needs	18
Understanding the determinants and consequences of perceived employability in graduate labor market in China	18
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
How do supported employment programs work? Answers from a systematic literature review	15
Using visual stimuli in narrative career interventions: effects of image-supported storytelling on interview anxiety and performance	14
Career counsellors’ perspectives on educational mobility in Denmark	14
How does career calling impact teachers’ self-efficacy, competencies and satisfaction? A structural equation model	13
Announcements	12
Adaptation of the Meaning of Life and Meaning of Work counseling program in Denmark with youth facing multiple life transitions	12
Relationship to Work Questionnaire: Validation Among French Canadian Workers	11
Qualitative longitudinal research in vocational psychology: a methodological approach to enhance the study of contemporary careers	11
Career anxiety as a barrier to life satisfaction among undergraduate students: the role of meaning in life and self-efficacy	11
Correction: Preschool education undergraduates’ choice of major and career in China	10
Perceived procedural justice and psychological flourishing among mental health professionals in Macao: a moderated mediation model	10
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
How does perceived social support affect the career satisfaction of Chinese college graduates in their early careers? A chain mediation model	9
How protean career orientation affects career decidedness: The mediating role of career adaptability and career decision self-efficacy	8
Work and the future as represented by French adolescents: the role of secondary school type and anticipated duration of post-secondary education	8
Protean career processes in young adults: Relationships with perceived future employability, educational performance, and commitment	8
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	8
Career experts' conceptions of systems development in lifelong guidance	7
Emotional anticipation of high school graduation: Similarity of profiles across gender, educational track, and grade	7

Investigating career-related teacher support for Chinese secondary school students in Hong Kong	7
The socioeconomic gap in the development of Korean adolescents’ occupational aspirations while approaching the post-secondary transition	7
Correction: Thinking styles and career adaptability: The moderating role of perceived career support	7
Correction to: Announcements	7
Motivating entrepreneurial learning: moderation of problem-solving efficacy	6
Adolescent educational and occupational anxiety: A three-dimensional model to fit into an attachment framework	6
Psychometric properties of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale in Italian young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET)	6
Higher education orientation in Türkiye: a cross-educational questionnaire validation and reliability study	6
Career expectations of international and domestic students in Canada	6
School-to-work transition: putting non-cognitive skills in context. The case of NEET and suggestions for policy	6
Correction: Career-related teacher support and decision to choose teaching as a career: a three-wave study of Nigerian and Zambian university students	6
In the same boat? An online group career counseling with a group of young adults in the time of COVID-19	6
Psychometric properties of the Childhood Career Development Scale among Iranian elementary school students	5
The relationship between social support and career adaptability: the chain mediating role of perceived career barriers and career maturity	5
Between choices and “going with the flow”. Career guidance and Roma young people in Hungary	5
Preschool teachers' attitudes toward career education: the role of cultural context and teaching self-efficacy	5
From career guidance to designing lives acting for fair and sustainable development	5
The interactive effects of self- and parent-referenced career goal discrepancies on young adults’ career indecision	5
Full-service schoolteachers’ views of career construction for learners with visual impairment	5
The intersections of migration, app-based gig work, and career development: implications for career practice and research	5
Bringing light to school counselors’ burnout: the role of occupational identity suffering	4
Decent work in Poland: a preliminary study. Suggestions for educational and counselling practice	4
Understanding group leader affect as a factor for career education programming	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
Purpose and career development: Implications for career counseling and counselor education	4
The association between work and family importance and job search behavior among career-interrupted men and women	4
Parental and school factors on American high school students’ academic and career intentions in STEM fields	4
Career development theories in practice: a thematic analysis of practitioner perceptions of the benefits of theoretically informed practice	3
The labour market integration of migrants and refugees: career guidance and the newly arrived	3
Social support and career adaptability: a meta-analysis	3
It is never too late: understanding career shocks–career development nexus from affective events theory	3
Elite athletes’ environment and their capability to plan and prepare a career transition out of sport	3
Graduates’ career choices: an empirically derived process model	3
Interest and its associations with university entrance grades, lecturers’ perceived support, and student dropout	3
Announcements	3
Construction and initial validation of the scale “Goals for Future Design of the 2030 Agenda”	3
A longitudinal study of relations among apprentices’ nonwork orientation, decent work, and job satisfaction	3
Uncertainty against Industry 4.0 and job insecurity: the moderated role of perceived employability, age, and educational level	3
Career counsellors’ professional agency when working with migrants	3
Males in nurse technician programs: a social cognitive analysis of gender differences in career development	3
A narrative inquiry into the meaning of career identity of Indian emerging adults amid Covid-19	3
An exploration of tensions amongst career guidance practitioners when it comes to the conceptualisation of digital technology	3
‘I Know What I Want, But It is a Hard Road Ahead’: adolescents’ future education and careers	3
Psychological empowerment, work–family facilitation, and job satisfaction among PE teachers: the moderating role of work–family segmentation preferences	2
Reciprocal relations between self-esteem, class engagement, and career calling: evidence from a two‐wave longitudinal study	2
What predicts a country’s proportion of adolescents with health career expectations? A cross-national study	2
Stories of courage in a group of asylum seekers for an inclusive and sustainable future	2
Promoting access to decent work: career counselors’ experiences with career construction counseling	2
Understanding career-designing experiences of North Korean immigrant youths in South Korea	2

A test of the career construction model of adaptation in a sample of Turkish undergraduate students: a two-wave longitudinal mediation study	2
Work–family conflict influences on preschool teachers’ work engagement through psychological detachment: explicit and implicit evidence	2
Narrative based online career group counseling program: an explanatory sequential design	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
The relationship among career self-efficacy, negative emotion regulation expectancies, coping, and emotional experience of college student athletes	2
Multidimensional measure of employability: internal structure and associations with motivational and emotional features in unemployed persons	2
Fluent or discriminated? English language and experiential sources of career self-efficacy among Asian international students in the United States	2
Validating the implicit theory of work scale: focusing on its role on career-related behaviors and affect in Korean undergraduates	2
The role of cognitive flexibility in job search behaviour: a research agenda	2
A validation study on the planned happenstance career inventory among Chinese overseas students in South Korea	2
Youth and Children's Orchestras: Analysis of the Educational Experience and Some Reflections from the Field of Lifelong Guidance and Counseling	2
The underlying career values of young adults’ protean and traditional career orientations	2
Exploring the meaning of education for university students: a longitudinal interpretative phenomenological analysis (LIPA) perspective	2
Impact of social support dimensions on academic self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and persistence intentions of students from diverse disciplines	2
Does passion ignite intentions? Understanding the influence of entrepreneurial passion on the entrepreneurial career intentions of higher education students	2
Data mining to detect variables associated with the occupational aspirations of Spanish 15-year-old students	2
Announcements	2
Psychometric properties of the African Career Interest Inventory in Ghana	2
Empowering futures: navigating career-specific parental behaviors, calling, and planning among senior clinical medical students	2
I would prefer not to: a qualitative investigation of adolescents’ perceptions of dirty work in Switzerland	2
Career crafting assessment scale in the Turkish context: validation and psychometric properties	2
The mediating role of self-regulation planning and motivation to learn in the relationship between protean career orientation and career behaviors	2
Working adults' future occupational plans: the contribution of role characteristics, social support, and occupational self-efficacy	1
Separate counselling services in Norwegian upper secondary schools. A possibility for a collective holistic approach?	1
Exploring supports and constraints to school counselors’ practices through Q-methodology research	1
Corporate social responsibility and performance in the workplace: a meta-analysis	1
Correction to: From academic achievement to career development: does self‐regulated learning matter?	1
Developing problem-solving efficacy and job performance: Moderation of knowledge-oriented leadership	1
Positive psychological capital and university students’ entrepreneurial intentions: does gender make a difference?	1
Psychometric properties of the Job Search Behaviour Index (JSBI) in recent university graduates: a Rasch analysis	1
Announcements	1
Work hope among rural Latinx and White youth: the role of beliefs in a just America, class inequality, and educational meritocracy	1
Enhancing the sense of self of a mid-career woman through career construction counselling	1
Career education and development scales for primary school and junior secondary school students	1
Relationship between proactive personality and career choice anxiety in college students: a mediated moderation model	1
Primary and secondary school students’ career aspirations and job automation-related risks	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
How does Mind–Body Bridging support professional identity development?	1
Enhancing the career development of rural youth	1
Measuring career adaptabilities in the Brazilian context: development and validation of the CAAS + C Brazilian form	1
Pavers of the way: Enablers to a lived calling in an Australian context	1
The influence of career indecision on life satisfaction among grade 12 Ontario students: career choice support as mediator and moderator	1
The contribution of family influence and self-efficacy to future perceptions of young adults living in Israel	1
The psychology of working: first evidence with Brazilian workers	1
Understanding viewpoints of employability: an ecological systems theory analysis based on three stakeholder groups	1
Application of the system theory framework to the career development of Korean university students	1
Announcements	1
Migration, educational and career guidance and social inclusion	1
Power of shared success: how can sharing success and roles of others motivate African women in STEM?	1
Perceived support and influences in adolescents’ career choices: a mixed-methods study	1
How ecological factors affect student learning: the mediating role of mental health	1
Academic self-efficacy and career decision-making self-efficacy: effects on academic major satisfaction via career optimism	1
Work volition and academic satisfaction in Chinese female college students: the moderating role of incremental theory of work volition	1
The Career Decision-Making Adaptability Score: Exploration and validation of its predictive power for subjective and objective career success	1
The economy and career choices scale: Construction and initial validation	1
Testing an integrative model of work–family conflict, social cognitive variables, and job and life satisfaction among Korean teachers	1
From secondary school to college: evolution of vocational indecision and contributions of motivations in vocational decision-making	1