Research has suggested there is an important distinction between perceiving a calling and living a calling. With a sample of 542 working adults, the current study examined (a) the degree to which perceiving a calling and living a calling differed according to yearly income and level of educational attainment and (b) potential mediators that may…

The Career Decision-Making Profiles questionnaire (CDMP; Gati, Landman, Davidovitch, Asulin-Peretz, & Gadassi, 2010) uses a new model for characterizing the way individuals make decisions based on the simultaneous use of 11 dimensions. The present study investigated which pole of each dimension is more adaptive. Using the data of 383 young…

This study explored the work experiences of individuals who have started transitioning from their biological sex to a different gender expression through 18 interviews of transgender-identified individuals. Thirteen of the participants identified as male-to-female transsexuals, 2 participants identified as female-to-male transsexuals, 2…

This qualitative study examined the perceived career options of 10 White adolescent young women who experienced social class privilege in their families of origin. The model of contextual privilege and career selection for adolescent White women emerged from the data, and it describes how social class privilege, gender, achievement expectations,…

Invited commentary on Armstrong and Vogel's (2009) article on interpreting the interest-efficacy association stimulated an appraisal from a broader perspective. Like empirical research, scale development, and theorizing emanating from social cognitive career theory (SCCT), their conclusion about the importance of assessing both interests and…

This study presents the educational and career goals and perceptions of supports and barriers related to these goals as described in semistructured interviews of 16 students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds attending 9th grade at an urban public high school in a large Northeastern city. Using consensual qualitative research (CQR)…

Investigates the differences in educational and vocational aspirations of Anglo, Mexican-American, and Negro adolescents. Combines a cross-sectional approach, a repeated measurement design with matched groups, and a longitudinal approach. Discusses the counteracting effects of the increasing age of subjects and of the epogenic influences.…

This study investigated the relationship of locus of control to the ideal and real occupational aspirations of adolescent females. Significant association was found between locus of control and ideal occupational aspiration and between locus of control and the presence or absence of discrepancy between ideal and real occupational aspiration.…

Drawing on developmental contextual theory, the authors examined the relationship of perceived barriers and support with school engagement and vocational attitudes among 9th-grade urban high school students in 2 studies. Study 1 (N=174) showed that both perceived barriers and perceived support from family kin were associated with youths'…

Study 1 examined construct validity of the Strong Interest Inventory and the Study of Values for 695 intellectually talented 13-year-olds. Study 2 consisted of a generalization probe to 695 graduate students. Analysis manifested an impressive degree of adolescence-to-adult cross-validation. Assessment and counseling with gifted students is…

The internal structural relationships of vocational scales were compared. The common configuration of vocational interests was used to reconcile previous contradictory research results about the comparability of interest scores from various instruments and as a basis for counselor interpretation. (Author)

Found classified vocational aspirations of 467 male and 250 female Navy recruits superior to Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI). Predictions for subjects with coherent vocational aspirations were very predictive over short time interval. Hypothesized links between coherence of vocational aspirations and Identity Scale, NEO Personality Inventory…

Investigated the application of fuzzy graphic rating scale to measurement of preferences for occupational sex type, prestige, and interests using Gottfredson's concept of occupational social space. Reported reliability and validity data with illustrative examples of respondents' interpretations of their own fuzzy ratings. Outlined counseling and…

Comparisons were made of subjects whose mothers differed in work history and attitudes toward careers. Maternal preference for a career had a positive effect upon subjects' self-esteem and evaluations of their own competence; maternal employment did not. (Author)

Correlations were obtained between scores on personality variables reflecting the components of psychosocial development described by Erikson and measures of the expectations of college held by entering students. Results indicate that successful psychosocial development is related to high expectations concerning the faculty, the administration,…