School-aged athletes face the need to balance competitive sports and their studies. In doing so they follow what is called a dual-career pathway. Both pursuits take time effort, both are expected lead success, either could life-long career. A pathway begins when children start play might continue throughout school years beyond. Research shows that it beneficial combine sport studies, but also c...

1 Much has been written about the problems of combining job and family. Among the best-known scholarly works is Goldin's (1997) study in which she found that only 12-17 percent of college-educated women managed to attain both a career and a family. We reexamine these conclusions, first duplicating Goldin's definitions of career but using a somewhat older group, then using alternate definitions ...

This paper compares gender differences in the role of parental support and interaction with others about career options in IT at three points in time (during high school, early college, and late college). Results indicate that women are not having interactions about career options that contribute to an interest in IT and that by the third and fourth year of college, those enrolled in a major le...

Responsibilities in the family are mandatory for each member to fulfill. One of main responsibilities a mother is take care her husband, children and household chores. However, currently role no longer just taking household, but also making living help meet daily needs order achieve prosperity family. This widely done by mothers who North Toraja, where many carrying out dual roles as wives care...

This study examined relationships among career adaptability and career concerns, social support and goal orientation. We surveyed 304 university students using measures of career concerns, adaptability (career planning, career exploration, self-exploration, decision-making, self-regulation), goal-orientation (learning, performance-prove, performance-avoid) and social support (family, friends, s...

(Original signatures are on file with official student records.) Acknowledgement First and foremost, I am deeply indebted to my parents, Kuei-Lan Hsieh and Eing-Ming Chen, who have always encouraged me to pursue higher education and supported me without reservation, to my beloved wife, Chiung-Ju Yeh, who has always stood beside me during this journey, and to my sister, Li-Wen Chen, and her fami...

BACKGROUND Despite recent developments in post-graduate family medicine training in Japan, the numbers of junior doctors entering family medicine residencies are still limited. The objective of this qualitative study was to investigate the possible factors associated to the career choice of family medicine, especially in the context of the newly established family medicine programs in Japan. ...