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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Three psychological traits and protean career orientation: a sequential mediation study based on the derivative view of protean career concept	54
The role of character strengths of wisdom, career adaptability and optimism on future orientation	31
Validation of the Korean version of the nonwork orientations scale	22
The influence of social connectedness and meaning in life on career adaptability and career self-efficacy in students with special educational needs	20
Aspects of refugee students’ financial path to academic achievement in higher education	19
How psychological and organizational factors shape career motivation: the serial mediating roles of career adaptability and the quality of work life	18
Beyond job placement: careers for refugees	18
Prolonged grief and career adaptability of university students through meaning making and coping styles	17
How do supported employment programs work? Answers from a systematic literature review	15
Understanding the determinants and consequences of perceived employability in graduate labor market in China	13
Using visual stimuli in narrative career interventions: effects of image-supported storytelling on interview anxiety and performance	10
Measuring college information in secondary students and higher education access	9
Career counsellors’ perspectives on educational mobility in Denmark	9
Relationship to Work Questionnaire: Validation Among French Canadian Workers	9
Announcements	9
Adaptation of the Meaning of Life and Meaning of Work counseling program in Denmark with youth facing multiple life transitions	8
Qualitative longitudinal research in vocational psychology: a methodological approach to enhance the study of contemporary careers	8
Career anxiety as a barrier to life satisfaction among undergraduate students: the role of meaning in life and self-efficacy	8
Will I ever fit in? The trajectories of person–environment fit of vocational students to their school program	7
How does perceived social support affect the career satisfaction of Chinese college graduates in their early careers? A chain mediation model	7
Correction: Preschool education undergraduates’ choice of major and career in China	7
How protean career orientation affects career decidedness: The mediating role of career adaptability and career decision self-efficacy	7
How does career calling impact teachers’ self-efficacy, competencies and satisfaction? A structural equation model	7
The roles of COVID-19 diagnosis and COVID-19 stress on the links among academic support, academic self-efficacy, and academic satisfaction: Boundary conditions	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	7

Perceived employability profiles and their relations to adaptivity, adaptability, and adapting: a person-centered approach	7
Perceived procedural justice and psychological flourishing among mental health professionals in Macao: a moderated mediation model	7
Professional identity construction in Turkish academics: a mixed methods investigation with international theoretical implications	7
Navigating uncertainty: how do parenting and grit influence career indecisiveness among Indian emerging adults?	6
The socioeconomic gap in the development of Korean adolescents’ occupational aspirations while approaching the post-secondary transition	6
Work and the future as represented by French adolescents: the role of secondary school type and anticipated duration of post-secondary education	6
Motivating entrepreneurial learning: moderation of problem-solving efficacy	6
Protean career processes in young adults: Relationships with perceived future employability, educational performance, and commitment	6
Emotional anticipation of high school graduation: Similarity of profiles across gender, educational track, and grade	5
Investigating career-related teacher support for Chinese secondary school students in Hong Kong	5
The intersections of migration, app-based gig work, and career development: implications for career practice and research	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
Correction: Thinking styles and career adaptability: The moderating role of perceived career support	5
Correction: Career-related teacher support and decision to choose teaching as a career: a three-wave study of Nigerian and Zambian university students	5
Psychometric properties of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale in Italian young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET)	5
Career experts' conceptions of systems development in lifelong guidance	5
School-to-work transition: putting non-cognitive skills in context. The case of NEET and suggestions for policy	5
Psychometric properties of the Childhood Career Development Scale among Iranian elementary school students	4
Higher education orientation in Türkiye: a cross-educational questionnaire validation and reliability study	4
Preschool teachers' attitudes toward career education: the role of cultural context and teaching self-efficacy	4
Bringing light to school counselors’ burnout: the role of occupational identity suffering	4
Perceived overqualification of college graduates: assessing antecedents, outcomes, and boundary conditions	4
Cultural translation of career decision-making: understanding practitioners’ perspectives from a multinational study on social and emotional learning	4
The relationship between social support and career adaptability: the chain mediating role of perceived career barriers and career maturity	4
Sociocultural and contextual determinants of science career goal at a community college and baccalaureate-granting institution	4
Decent work in Poland: a preliminary study. Suggestions for educational and counselling practice	4
Males in nurse technician programs: a social cognitive analysis of gender differences in career development	4
Adolescent educational and occupational anxiety: A three-dimensional model to fit into an attachment framework	4
From career guidance to designing lives acting for fair and sustainable development	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
Between choices and “going with the flow”. Career guidance and Roma young people in Hungary	4
Exploring the meaning of education for university students: a longitudinal interpretative phenomenological analysis (LIPA) perspective	3
An exploration of tensions amongst career guidance practitioners when it comes to the conceptualisation of digital technology	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
Career development theories in practice: a thematic analysis of practitioner perceptions of the benefits of theoretically informed practice	3
Construction and initial validation of the scale “Goals for Future Design of the 2030 Agenda”	3
The path to decent work: exploring career identity, career self-efficacy, and organizational career support in the face of ostracism	3
Reciprocal relations between self-esteem, class engagement, and career calling: evidence from a two‐wave longitudinal study	3
A longitudinal study of relations among apprentices’ nonwork orientation, decent work, and job satisfaction	3
It is never too late: understanding career shocks–career development nexus from affective events theory	3
Enhancing employability: a group career intervention protocol for unemployed individuals	3
Announcements	3
Career counsellors’ professional agency when working with migrants	3
Uncertainty against Industry 4.0 and job insecurity: the moderated role of perceived employability, age, and educational level	3
Impact of social support dimensions on academic self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and persistence intentions of students from diverse disciplines	3
The underlying career values of young adults’ protean and traditional career orientations	3
Psychological empowerment, work–family facilitation, and job satisfaction among PE teachers: the moderating role of work–family segmentation preferences	3
The labour market integration of migrants and refugees: career guidance and the newly arrived	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
Social support and career adaptability: a meta-analysis	3
Interest and its associations with university entrance grades, lecturers’ perceived support, and student dropout	3
What predicts a country’s proportion of adolescents with health career expectations? A cross-national study	2
Empowering futures: navigating career-specific parental behaviors, calling, and planning among senior clinical medical students	2
Narrative based online career group counseling program: an explanatory sequential design	2
Work–family conflict influences on preschool teachers’ work engagement through psychological detachment: explicit and implicit evidence	2
The dynamic of adaptation from school to the workplace among men who were sexually abused in childhood and/or adolescence (MSACA)	2
Multidimensional measure of employability: internal structure and associations with motivational and emotional features in unemployed persons	2
‘I Know What I Want, But It is a Hard Road Ahead’: adolescents’ future education and careers	2
Data mining to detect variables associated with the occupational aspirations of Spanish 15-year-old students	2
Career education and development scales for primary school and junior secondary school students	2
The relationship among career self-efficacy, negative emotion regulation expectancies, coping, and emotional experience of college student athletes	2
Application of the system theory framework to the career development of Korean university students	2
Fluent or discriminated? English language and experiential sources of career self-efficacy among Asian international students in the United States	2
A study of the online job search experiences of first-generation college students in global majority systems	2
The role of cognitive flexibility in job search behaviour: a research agenda	2
Understanding career-designing experiences of North Korean immigrant youths in South Korea	2
Undergraduate students’ career resources: Validation of the Italian version of the career resources questionnaire	2
A validation study on the planned happenstance career inventory among Chinese overseas students in South Korea	2
The mediating role of self-regulation planning and motivation to learn in the relationship between protean career orientation and career behaviors	2
The relationship between career-related future time orientation and employment outcomes: a time-lagged study	2
Promoting access to decent work: career counselors’ experiences with career construction counseling	2
Career crafting assessment scale in the Turkish context: validation and psychometric properties	2
Understanding viewpoints of employability: an ecological systems theory analysis based on three stakeholder groups	2
I would prefer not to: a qualitative investigation of adolescents’ perceptions of dirty work in Switzerland	2
From secondary school to college: evolution of vocational indecision and contributions of motivations in vocational decision-making	2
Youth and Children's Orchestras: Analysis of the Educational Experience and Some Reflections from the Field of Lifelong Guidance and Counseling	2
Validating the implicit theory of work scale: focusing on its role on career-related behaviors and affect in Korean undergraduates	2
Elite athletes’ environment and their capability to plan and prepare a career transition out of sport	2
A test of the career construction model of adaptation in a sample of Turkish undergraduate students: a two-wave longitudinal mediation study	2
Is hybrid work beneficial for employees?	2
Work volition and academic satisfaction in Chinese female college students: the moderating role of incremental theory of work volition	1
Perceived support and influences in adolescents’ career choices: a mixed-methods study	1
The psychology of working: first evidence with Brazilian workers	1
How does Mind–Body Bridging support professional identity development?	1
Social cognitive predictors of Chinese high school teachers’ occupational well-being and turnover intention	1
Primary and secondary school students’ career aspirations and job automation-related risks	1
Career counseling in schools: experiences and perspectives of career counselors	1
Measuring career adaptabilities in the Brazilian context: development and validation of the CAAS + C Brazilian form	1
Supporting children’s career aspirations under changing career conditions: a systematic review of intervention approaches	1
Student Career Construction Inventory (SCCI): Brazilian validity evidence using item response theory	1
Guidance and education, an analysis of young peoples’ discontinuous school pathways: the guidance-oriented approach of educational institutions	1
Additional evidence for decent work scale: invariance and relations with sociodemographic, adaptability, work well-being, and burnout	1
The influence of career indecision on life satisfaction among grade 12 Ontario students: career choice support as mediator and moderator	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
Work hope among rural Latinx and White youth: the role of beliefs in a just America, class inequality, and educational meritocracy	1
Corporate social responsibility and performance in the workplace: a meta-analysis	1
Academic self-efficacy and career decision-making self-efficacy: effects on academic major satisfaction via career optimism	1
Announcements	1
Exploring supports and constraints to school counselors’ practices through Q-methodology research	1
Enhancing the sense of self of a mid-career woman through career construction counselling	1
Correction to: From academic achievement to career development: does self‐regulated learning matter?	1
Really shocks can’t be ignored: the effects of career shocks on career development and how family support moderates this relationship?	1
Optimizing vocational identity status and job search behavior via career-related practical skills training in electrical/electronic technology education	1
Development and validation of the Turkish five-factor short form of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS-5-SF)	1
Developing problem-solving efficacy and job performance: Moderation of knowledge-oriented leadership	1
Not being in education, employment, or training (NEET) in a collectivist Turkish culture: exploring the experiences of social studies teachers	1
Power of shared success: how can sharing success and roles of others motivate African women in STEM?	1
The economy and career choices scale: Construction and initial validation	1
How ecological factors affect student learning: the mediating role of mental health	1
Testing an integrative model of work–family conflict, social cognitive variables, and job and life satisfaction among Korean teachers	1
The contribution of family influence and self-efficacy to future perceptions of young adults living in Israel	1
The Career Decision-Making Adaptability Score: Exploration and validation of its predictive power for subjective and objective career success	1
Positive psychological capital and university students’ entrepreneurial intentions: does gender make a difference?	1
Relationship between proactive personality and career choice anxiety in college students: a mediated moderation model	1
How do differences in perceived social support enhance students’ career choices? Revisit the social cognitive career theory	1
Identity transition in ex-offenders: key issues and career counselling interventions	1
Why do so few individuals with an autism spectrum disorder attend university? A case of Türkiye	1
Announcements	1