Further Validation of the Commitment to Career Choices Scale: Extensions to a High-School Sample

This study examines factors that influence high school students’ willingness to consider teaching as a career. Using predictive modeling, we identified five factors that are highly predictive of a students’ willingness to consider teaching and their belief that teaching is their best career option. Results indicated that high school students were more likely to consider teaching when they had confidence in their ability to be good teachers, when family members and others encouraged them to become teachers, and when they felt their community supported teachers. Most of those who considered teaching thought of themselves as average students. Less impactful factors included gender and pay. Additionally, this study found students less likely to consider work conditions for teachers when making career choices.

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Cross validation of the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents in a high school sample

Journal of Anxiety Disorders ◽

10.1016/s0887-6185(02)00098-1 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 221-232 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Mark G Myers ◽

Murray B Stein ◽

Gregory A Aarons

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Social Anxiety ◽

Cross Validation ◽

Anxiety Scale ◽

The Social ◽

School Sample

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Risky behaviors of adolescent boys: A high school sample

TAF Preventive Medicine Bulletin ◽

10.5455/pmb.1-1442334339 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 206 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Selen Akca ◽

Filiz Selen

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Risky Behaviors ◽

Adolescent Boys ◽

School Sample

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Police Legitimacy and Compliance With the Law Among Chinese Youth

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology ◽

10.1177/0306624x17740559 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 62 (11) ◽

pp. 3536-3561 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Siyu Liu ◽

Jianhong Liu

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Independent Effect ◽

Police Legitimacy ◽

Chinese Youth ◽

Distributive Fairness ◽

School Sample ◽

The Law ◽

Compliance With The Law ◽

Considerable Support

The process-based model of policing garnered considerable support in the discourse on police legitimacy. However, findings are largely based on Western contexts, and little attention has been paid to the model advanced by Tyler that police legitimacy helps promote compliance. Using a high school sample ( N = 711) from China, we follow Tankebe’s operationalization and examine the role of legitimacy in youth support for the police and whether legitimacy helps predict compliance with the law. Findings indicate that procedural justice and shared values are strong predictors of youth support to the police, and this support positively predicts compliance with the law. Distributive fairness exerts an independent effect on compliance while having been questioned by the police is negatively related to compliance.

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