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Designation/Project-Title:
Transition from school to work: The meaning of personal goals, social
Homepage:
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Project-Number:
Youth & Work
Actual date:
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12/10/2002
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The project is:
a national project
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Co-ordinating person:
Katariina Salmela-Aro
Address:
Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, FIN?00250 Helsinki, Finland
E-Mail:
Katariina.Salmela-Aro@ttl.fi
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Contact person:
Researchers J. Heckhausen, M. Jokisaari, J. Nurmi
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Participating countries (In which countries the project takes/took place?)
Finland.
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Statistics:
number of participating persons / institutions:
Universities of Helsinki and Jyväskylä; University of California,.
project-costs:
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Short description:
      Objectives: The aim of this research is to examine how adolescents and young adults
      self-direct their life by personal goals and strategies. Research focuses on young adults
      transition points, such transition from school to education and work, transition to
      university, and transition to parenthood.
      The aim is to examine how personal goals and strategies predict successful
      transitions from school to work and problems in these transitions.
      Subjects: Four studies are included: 1) 300 university students who have been followed
      annually since 1991, 2) 250 vocational school students, 3 data collections during
      transition from school to work, 3) 300 vocational school students, 5 data collections
      during transition from vocation school to work, 4) 300 students in university entrance
      examination, 3 data collection, one before examination, 2 after examination.

      Methods: Main methods Little PPA personal projects, SAQ strategies, social resources.
      Register data concerning grades etc.
      Key words: adolescents, motivation, young adults.
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Transformable results:.
Can the results be transformed into other countries?
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Documentation of the project:
Which materials/documentations/publications/instruments/etc. of this project do exist?
      3 data collection, one before examination, 2 after examination..
Where can these documentations be demanded (For example: Address/Telephone of the institution/contact-person/list of publications/link for downloads/ etc.)
      Publications:
      Salmela-Aro K, Nurmi J-E, Saisto T, Halmesmäki E. Women?s and men?s personal goals
      during the transition to parenthood. J Family Psychology 2000;14:171?86.
      Salmela-Aro K, Pennanen R, Nurmi J-E. Self-focused goals: what they are, how they function
      and how they relate to well-being. In: Schmuck P, Sheldon K, eds. Life goals and well-being.
      Lengerich; 2001. p. 148?66.
      Salmela-Aro K. Personal goals during a transition to adulthood. In: Nurmi J-E, ed. Navigation
      through adolescence. N.Y: Routledge; 2001.
      Nurmi J-E, Salmela-Aro K. Goal construction, reconstruction and depressive symptomatology
      in a life span context: The transition from school to work. Journal of Personality. In press
      2002.
      Nurmi J-E, Salmela-Aro K, Koivisto P. Goal importance, and related agency-beliefs and
      emotions during the transition from vocational school to work: Antecedents and
      Consequences. Journal of Vocational Behavior. In press 2002..
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