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Prediction of Distant Educational Goals by Goals in Other Domains and Perceived Contextual Opportunities

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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" lang="en-US"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Lifelong learning is linked to successful economic participation</span></span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">. </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">At the same time, individual activities are framed by contextual opportunities for education and occupation.</span></span></em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">This study explored personal and contextual factors predicting choice of education as a distant goal among emerging adults. Research participants were 120 emerging adults aged from 20 to 30 living in Riga (62% of</span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">females).</span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span lang="en-US">The p</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">articipants evaluated to what extent their near and distant goals associate with different life domains and reported perceived opportunities for fulfillment of these goal</span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">s</span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> provided by their living place. Distant goals in the educational domain were positively predicted by current educational, distant occupational, and self-related goals</span></span><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">,</span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> and negatively predicted by higher perceived opportunities provided by their living place. The last finding indicates an association of a perceived lack of opportunities in the local context with a need for planning the further education.</span></span></p>