Auto-percepções, valores e saliência dos papéis em estudantes do ensino superior

Abstract

The presented research tries to integrate concepts and techniques from Career Psychology and other fields of Psychology. Its theoretical frame is Super’s career development model (1990) and Susan Harter´s developmental perspective about the construction of the self (1999). The results were obtained in 683 college students from public higher education schools in Lisbon, with the Portuguese forms of the following assessment instruments: the 2nd edition of the WIS Values Scale, the WIS Salience Inventory and the Self-Perception Profile for College Students: SPPCS. The analysis of the interrelations of the different variables allows to examine how the level of perceived competence in some domains of self-concept is related to the way individuals commit and participate in the roles where they feel they are competent and also to the way they try to develop, realize and express themselves as individuals.