Vocational learners' dispositional and maturational development : lifetime goal-setting effects

Using three separate but interrelated studies with adult unemployed vocational learners, the research quantitatively and qualitatively investigated the effects of a pre-training intervention labelled Lifetime Goal-setting and Goal-getting. The research found learner dispositional development and statistically significant moves towards maturation empowering jobseeking learners to face the challenges of obtaining employment.