The SCCT has been found to support self-efficacy and outcome expectations as significant predictors of interest, that interests partially mediate the relation of self-efficacy and outcome expectations, and that self-efficacy relates to outcome expectations across Holland's (1997) broad occupational themes as utilized in the current study (Sheu et al. 2010).
This alignment was felt to provide a rationale for the use of student ratings of interests, activities, and Holland's broad occupational themes as a comprehensive way of gaining insight into the complexity of career decision-making of junior high students.
Health professional responses did not reveal any additional themes, but tended to focus on physical and occupational themes.
Time use research further helped to identify nine occupational engagement themes or items categories that varied in a systematic way in relation to the level of occupational engagement.
Are there any consistent occupational areas or themes running through your choices (for example, you may find out they all involve writing or promotional work)?
They operate within regular high schools and try to weave related occupational or industrial themes into a college preparatory curriculum, enabling students to see relationships between academic subjects and their application to the school's focal area.
The interview guide included the following themes: occupational history and present work, family and social network, health and sickness absence.
Themes present among professional occupational groups only: No themes emerged solely from participants with non-professional backgrounds.
This related to agreement on the content of the 10 primary themes (ie interpersonal relationship, occupational factors etc) and of the sub-themes that contributed to each.
Examining how households access, and depend upon a diversity of occupational sectors is a central theme in many development studies and is often discussed in the context of poverty, urbanization, household risk, conservation, and coping strategies [4] [8].
