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Career Interest Development

Career Interest Development is a psychological construct that denotes the progressive process through which individuals form, refine, and commit to particular vocational preferences based on personal experiences, cognitive appraisals, and environmental influences within the context of occupational exploration.

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Toward a Unifying Social Cognitive Theory of Career and Academic Interest, Choice, and Performance

Robert W. Lent, Steven D. Brown, Gail Hackett · Journal of Vocational Behavior · 1994 · 7.3K citations

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Stability and volatility of STEM career interest in high school: A gender study

Philip M. Sadler, Gerhard Sonnert, Zahra Hazari et al. · Science Education · 2012 · 690 citations

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Social cognitive career theory at 25: Empirical status of the interest, choice, and performance models

Robert W. Lent, Steven D. Brown · Journal of Vocational Behavior · 2019 · 503 citations

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Social cognitive career theory and the prediction of interests and choice goals in the computing disciplines

Robert W. Lent, Antonio M. López, Frederick G. Lopez et al. · Journal of Vocational Behavior · 2008 · 432 citations

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Out-of-School Time Science Activities and Their Association with Career Interest in STEM

Katherine P. Dabney, Robert H. Tai, John Almarode et al. · International Journal of Science Education Part B · 2011 · 362 citations

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Authors

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  1. PM
    Philip M. Sadler

    Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, United States

    10 publications · 1.5K citations

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  2. GS
    Gerhard Sonnert

    Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, United States

    10 publications · 1.5K citations

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  3. GK
    Gerald Knezek

    University of North Texas, United States

    7 publications · 451 citations

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  4. RW
    Robert W. Lent

    University of Maryland, College Park, United States

    7 publications · 8.9K citations

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  5. RC
    Rhonda Christensen

    University of North Texas, United States

    6 publications · 427 citations

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Institutions

461

  1. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    7 h-index

    9 publications

    2.2K citations

  2. Iowa State University

    Ames, United States

    7 h-index

    9 publications

    348 citations

  3. University of North Texas

    Denton, United States

    6 h-index

    15 publications

    1K citations

  4. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    6 h-index

    9 publications

    350 citations

  5. North Carolina State University

    Raleigh, United States

    6 h-index

    19 publications

    2.5K citations

  6. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

    6 h-index

    13 publications

    3.1K citations

  7. University of Florida

    Gainesville, United States

    6 h-index

    13 publications

    809 citations

  8. Harvard University Press

    Cambridge, United States

    5 h-index

    15 publications

    333 citations

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  1. Journal of Vocational Behavior

    23 publications · 9.3K citations

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  2. PubMed

    Repository · 11 publications · 286 citations

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  3. Journal of Career Assessment

    12 publications · 626 citations

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  4. Journal of Counseling Psychology

    10 publications · 267 citations

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  5. Journal of Applied Psychology

    6 publications · 323 citations

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