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Challenging the uniformity myth in career counseling outcome studies: Examining the role of initial career counseling goals KU Leuven

Marijke Verbruggen, Nicky Dries, Koen Van Laer
This study aimed to challenge the “uniformity myth” in career counseling outcome studies — that is, a tendency towards studying career counseling clients as homogenous, implicitly assuming that the same outcomes would be beneficial to all clients. To this end, we examined therole of clients’ initial career counseling goals. We hypothesized that a client’s career counseling goals would affect (1) which outcomes the client is likely to attain ...

Career goal engagement following negative feedback : influence of expectancy-value and perceived feedback accuracy Ghent University

Lot Fonteyne, Annick Eelbode, Isabelle Lanszweert, Elisabeth Roels, Stijn Schelfhout, Wouter Duyck, Filip De Fruyt
This study addresses the effects of negative attainability feedback on the shift from engagement to disengagement from a career goal. It was hypothesized that negative attainability feedback regarding study choice may lead to both goal engagement and goal disengagement and that this relation is mediated by self-efficacy, motivational beliefs, and by the perceived accuracy of feedback. Results confirmed that negative feedback led to goal ...

“Road to success”- The career trajectories of top 10 professional tennis players Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Pingwei Li, Veerle De Bosscher
Learning from the career trajectories of successful professional tennis players is central to informing effective strategy, policy and practice to maximize player development. This paper aims to examine the career milestones of top professional tennis players, utilizing this information to forecast a player’s career peak ranking. Thirty-years of longitudinal data which included 82 top 10 professional ranked players between 2007 to 2017, were ...

General mental ability and specific abilities : their relative importance for extrinsic career success Ghent University

Jonas Lang, Harrison J. Kell
Recent research on the role of general mental ability (GMA) and specific abilities in work-related outcomes has shown that the results differ depending on the theoretical and conceptual approach that researchers use. While earlier research has typically assumed that GMA causes the specific abilities and has thus used incremental validity analysis, more recent research has explored the implications of treating GMA and specific abilities as equals ...

Staying on or dropping out? The role of intergroup friendship and perceived teacher support in minority and nonminority school careers KU Leuven

Gulseli Baysu, Karen Phalet
Background: Bridging educational and social psychology, we examine the impact of positive intergroup relations in schools on minority and nonminority school careers. Purpose of Study: The study aims to estimate and explain the attainment gap between Turkish Belgian minority and Belgian nonminority students at four stages of their school careers, controlling for family background and prior attainment. Intergroup friendship and perceived teacher ...

Climbing the corporate ladder and within-person changes in narcissism: Reciprocal relationships over two decades Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University

Joeri Hofmans

Prior research demonstrated that narcissism fosters the attainment of higher managerial ranks in organizations. However, it is not known whether climbing the corporate ladder also fosters the development of narcissism over time. Whereas prior work consistently adopted a unidirectional perspective on narcissism and career attainment, this study presents and tests a bidirectional perspective, incorporating long-term development in narcissism in ...

Climbing the corporate ladder and within-person changes in narcissism Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University

Joeri Hofmans

Prior research demonstrated that narcissism fosters the attainment of higher managerial ranks in organizations. However, it is not known whether climbing the corporate ladder also fosters the development of narcissism over time. Whereas prior work consistently adopted a unidirectional perspective on narcissism and career attainment, this study presents and tests a bidirectional perspective, incorporating long-term development in narcissism in ...

Balancing attainability, desirability and promotion steadiness in manpower planning systems KU Leuven

Komar Komarudin, Marie-Anne Guerry, Greet Vanden Berghe, Tim De Feyter
© 2015 Operational Research Society Ltd. A Markov manpower planning model with fixed internal transition probabilities, enables assessing the feasibility to attain the most desirable personnel structure. In case the desirable personnel structure is not attainable under control by recruitment, the internal personnel flows can be modified while not disrupting the career progression expectations. This paper introduces the promotion steadiness ...

Effects of using research-based learning on the development of academic competencies of graduate students Ghent University

Maria Helen Camacho Rivadeneira
U+FEFFU+FEFFEffects of using Research-Based Learning on the development of academic competences of graduate students Currently, there is an increasing interest on the key role of higher education around the world (Stein et al., 2019). However, an appropriate interpretation of this role might be challenging in view of the many changes happening in the last years (Altbach et al., 2010). To a great extent, the role of higher education is linked to ...

Langetermijneffecten van zittenblijven en afstromen op opleidingsniveau, participatie in levenslang leren en de beroepscarrière KU Leuven

Heidi Knipprath
In this paper we investigate long-term effects of grade retention and downward track changes on educational degree, lifelong learning and occupational career. Changing downward the educational track of a student is an important alternative to grade retention in secondary education in Flanders and the Netherlands. Based on longitudinal data, we find that young people who at least once repeated a grade in primary or secondary education or changed ...