L'intenzione di perseguire i propi obiettivi e la percezione di controllo

Career construction theory (Savickas, 2002) assumes that subjective lack of career control over one's vocational future in an increasingly changing society can be addressed by diverse interventions. Helping self-regulation strategies is part of these interventions. This paper proposes to introduce in vocational counselling a self-regulation strategy that has been proved to enhance the level of academic performance (Broonen, 2006), namely the conscious production of implementation intentions (Gollwitzer, 1993) in goal-directed behaviour. Career control should be facilitated by stating these specific intentions that specify what, when, and how to seek relevant vocational information.