Running head: STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS GEOGRAPHIC MOBILITY Moving for their first job or staying put? Predictors of high school students’ attitudes towards geographic mobility Dorothea Dette 1 and Claudia Dalbert 2 * 1 University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany 2 Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Dette, D. & Dalbert, C. (2005). Moving for their first job or staying put? – High school students’ atti- tudes towards geographic mobility. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 35, 1719-1737. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com * Corresponding Author: Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert, Department of Educational Psychology, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Franckesche Stiftungen, Haus 5, D-06099 Halle (Saale); Phone: +49 +345-55-23811; Fax: +49 +345-55-27244; e-mail: dalbert@paedagogik.uni-halle.de