Editorial

Excerpt

This third issue of volume 14 of our Journal includes four distinctive contributions, from three different continents, three quantitative studies and one review or theoretical contribution. It is important to note that half of these contributions are from Asia, while one is from North America, and one from Europe. The authors of the first study, conducted in a Malaysian context, described the relationships between social valuation of entrepreneurship, subjective norms of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, along with attitudes toward entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial intentions, and how these relationships are moderated by the participants’ gender. The authors of the second contribution described the impact of learning disabilities on several aspects related to people’s career development, such as academic achievements or self-determination. This authors of this contribution also analyzed how counseling theories might take into account learning disabilities and presents some practical implications. In a large sample from Hong Kong, the authors of the third contribution showed how career maturity can predict the ability of finding a job and how this relationship is moderated by emotional intelligence or social vocational interest. In the last contribution of this issue, the authors studied the predictors of employee’s learning intention and observed that self-directedness, organizational support, and growth possibilities were especially important positive predictors. …