Journal article
Judgments about Work and the Features of Young Adults' Jobs
Work and occupations, Vol.37(2), pp.194-224
05/01/2010
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/116946
PMCID: PMC2926996
PMID: 20802796
Abstract
This study revisits the relationship between adolescent judgments about work and later job characteristics, tackling the twin temporal dimensions of age and history. Drawing on 15 consecutive cohorts of high school seniors, we examine 1) whether adolescents' judgments about work become more strongly predictive of the characteristics of their jobs as they move through their twenties, and 2) whether the relationship between adolescents' judgments about work and their later job characteristics has weakened across cohorts of high school seniors between 1976 and 1990. Findings indicate a limited role of history; the larger life course story of these findings is tied to age. Adolescent judgments about work, measured in the senior year of high school, became more predictive of earnings with age during this period of the life course. They were also most predictive of the level of intrinsic job characteristics at the oldest age we examined, but the pattern was not one of progressive strengthening with age as it was for earnings.
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- Title
- Judgments about Work and the Features of Young Adults' Jobs
- Creators
- Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson - Department of Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4020, monicakj@wsu.edu , fax: 509-335-6419Maria Monserud
- Publication Details
- Work and occupations, Vol.37(2), pp.194-224
- Academic Unit
- Sociology, Department of
- Publisher
- United States
- Grant note
- T32 AG000155-20 / NIA NIH HHS R01 DA001411 / NIDA NIH HHS R24 HD050924 / NICHD NIH HHS T32 AG000155 / NIA NIH HHS
- Identifiers
- 99900547810701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article