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alternative courses of action to deal with job loss. However, males are more likely to put on a
brave front.
4161.4 Teaching career and labour market in Brazil: Motivation and dilemmas in the
professional choice, Belmira Bueno, Janine Shultz-Enge, University of São Paulo, Brazil
This work presents results of two studies about professional choices in the field of teaching, based
on data from questionnaires, interviews, and autobiographies. Taking into account the family and
schooling influences on the formation of social values and representations, as well as the gender
and class determinations, the economics constraints, and the pression of the professional market,
the analysis shows that what is usually understood as “professional choice” is in fact a continuous
and complex process which envolves several kinds of factors. It is also pointed out that in Brazil
the teaching represents a concrete chance of professional inclusion.
4161.5 Parental styles and psychosocial development in high school students, Ana Cazares 1 ,
Javier Aguilar 2 , Alejandra Valencia 2 , 1 Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, Mexico, 2 Universidad
Nacional Autonoma De, Mexico
This study analyzes relationships between four parental styles and psychosocial development
variables in high school students. Psychometric Instruments measuring parental styles
(authoritarian, authoritative, permisive and negligent) and 14 psychosocial variables (academic
competency, work orientation, self-confidence, social self-evaluation, school orientation, etc) were
developmented and validated with more than 250 students sample, and all of their scales showed
high levels of reliability. Seventy three high school students participated in final study. Regression
analysis showed: Academic competency is predicted (Determination Coefficient=.342) by Work
orientation (+) and Negligent Style (-) and Work orientation, is predicted (.429) by Self-confidence
(+) and scholastic bad behaviour (-).
4162 ORAL
Cognition
Chair: Philipp E. Otto, UK
4162.1 The construction of rule knowledge in group decision making, Guibing He, Jianhua
Zeng, Department of Psychology at Zhejiang University, China
This study investigated the interactive construction process in dynamic group investment decision
task by examining how the group structures (knowledge distributions), task features (types of
constructed knowledge) and group interaction procedures (structures of group discussion) affect
the rule knowledge construction. The results revealed that: types of constructed knowledge and
prior knowledge distribution had significant main effects on task performance; discussion
procedure had interactive effects on task performance with the other two variables; knowledge
type with prior distribution, and discussion procedure with knowledge type had interactive effects
on group satisfaction; group interaction process had a significant effect on knowledge
construction.
4162.2 How to save more: Tools for self-control, Philipp E. Otto 1 , Greg Davies 2 , Nick
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