Examining Career and College Planning through the Lens of Purpose in the East and West

How do young people make plans for college and careers? How and to what degree does the desire to pursue a purposeful career path shape plans? How does this develop over time, and how does the process differ in the East and West? These are some of the questions that have animated our study of career purpose. To investigate these questions, we are conducting a three-year longitudinal study. We are following adolescents across their high school years, interviewing them annually from tenth through twelfth grade. Our colleagues in Taiwan are doing the same.

Principal Investigators: Kendall Cotton Bronk and Yu-Chen Wang (National Taiwan Normal University)
Team Members: Christine D’Amico, Lisa Kearns, Dacey Bashaw, Jia Qi (Eva) Li, Kay Leong
Funder: National Taiwan Normal University