External Influences in Adolescents’ Career Development: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Developmental Psychology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 526
Special Issue Editor
Interests: youth development; career development; career indecision; career guidance
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Dear Colleagues,
Considering the interest sparked by the Special Issue “External Influences in Adolescents’ Career Development” and the success it has achieved, we are delighted to announce a second edition.
Making career choices represents one of the most demanding developmental tasks for adolescents. An emerging area within developmental and educational psychology is attention to external influences in the career development process. Educational systems, family, and peers play a crucial role in decision-making processes. Teacher career-related support is defined as the supportive behavior of teachers towards students concerning career decisions. Adolescents spend a good part of their time in the classroom, and they should be equipped with the skills needed to successfully cope with the current challenges of the labor market. Moreover, parental career-related behaviors are also associated with adolescents' career development, with specific evidence in the literature on supportive or interfering behavior. Likewise, central to the family system is sibling behavior, which is still little-explored in the literature. Finally, peers also play a significant role in changing the behavior of individuals and decision making regarding careers. Nowadays, other factors might influence career choices, for example, cultures, media influences, and the social acceptability of careers.
This Special Issue aims to collate manuscripts that deal with the study of external influences on adolescents' career choices. It also welcomes contributions that propose new measures and interventions, such as career guidance practices. Contributions should fall under one of the following three categories—article, conceptual paper, or review—and address the topic of the Special Issue. As this is a second edition, we expect even more up-to-date studies on the topic, using sophisticated and advanced research methods to explain the phenomenon.
Dr. Anna Parola
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- career development
- career choices
- teacher career-related support
- parental career-related support
- peer behavior
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