The aim of this article is to provide an overview and discussion of the literature from various
areas of psychology on adolescent goal content and pursuit since the publication of Nurmi's …

By contemporary I mean a present with an anticipated future, for we must do our best to
overcome clinical habits which make us assume that we have done our part if we have clari …

Adolescence is a crossroads from childhood to adulthood. Childhood experiences and
biological characteristics are transformed into interests, competencies, and self‐beliefs and …

What type of work goals provide adolescents with the sense that schoolwork is important
and that their lives are meaningful? This mixed-methods study of a diverse sample of 6th …

To examine (a) how young adults' personal goals change as they progress from emerging to
young adulthood in their university studies and immediately after and (b) the extent to which …

The aim of this paper is to present the life-span model of motivation comprising four key
processes or the four C's–channelling, choice, co-agency or co-regulation and …

This book explores the development of a new path of transition between adolescence and
adulthood in recent generations. Whereas traditionally the transition into adulthood was …

Gender, generations, and lineage; faith, hope, and justice; gifts, duties, and debts; affection,
responsibility, and generativity; values, secrets, and objectives; transmissions and …

This study investigated adolescents' and parents' co-regulation of career-related goals
during the post-school transition. Finnish adolescents (N= 807, 49% female) were assessed …

The current study examined the relation between adolescents' perceptions of their parents'
jobs and their future orientation, and tested the role of parental support. Four hundred and …