The objectives of the present study were to identify the factors related to career success of college educated, African American men and to explore the relative importance of human capital, social capital, individual differences, and demographic attributes in predicting career success. Using a sample of 247 African American males, we found some…

The present study investigates the relationship between individual differences and flexible work arrangement use. Three need-based motivational factors (need for affiliation at work, need for segmentation of work from other life roles, need for occupational achievement) were examined in relation to extent of flextime and flexplace use.…

Using the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) data sets, the complex phenomenon of intra-individual and inter-individual differences in and the potential predictors of those differences on career aspirations development over a 12-year period was analyzed. Results indicated that 73.1% of the total growth (change) in adolescents'…

Researchers have called for an examination of the roles that alternatives to traditional mentoring play in individuals' career success. This study tests how important, but less examined factors, such as employees' direct leader, personal and work factors such as ability and the formality of the organization, and employees' engagement in career…

Female and male students were administered the Career Decision Scale and the Vocational Preference Inventory in order to test the hypothesis that indecision is negatively related to occupational interest differentiation in an adult population. Results indicate interest differentiation did not appear to be a reliable indicator of vocational…

Vocational interests, personality, work environment, and background of authors and critics, male and female, in children's literature are examined in terms of Holland's theory of vocational types. On SVIB indicator scales, both authors and critics score as artistic types with "consistent" profiles, but authors are more…

Results of a mail survey of (N=292) female volunteers, ages 23-44, indicated the role of volunteer work may be: one of consciously chosen primary work, a supplement to primary work, or a vehicle for entry or return to employment. Discussed differences in each role's relationship to voluntary organizations. (Author/RC)

Examines the relationship of career and academic major choice status to levels of state anxiety among undergraduate students (N=179) who completed questionnaires concerning their career development status. Results indicated subjects reporting previously chosen careers exhibited lower levels of state anxiety. (Author/RC)

Two groups of college seniors (N=106) were compared on factors affecting feminine career choice and career development. Three factors pertained to feminine role perception. The remaining four were concerned with sex-role stereotyping and various aspects of family background. (Author)

Vocational interests and job aspirations of traditional and nontraditional women in a single work environment were examined. Nontraditional women scored higher than traditional women on Vocational Preference Inventory Investigative and Enterprising Scales and aspired to occupations employing a greater percentage of men. (Author)

Using a cross-sectional design and canonical regression analysis, the differential relationships between work values and social, educational, and occupational experiences and aspirations were examined for boys and girls in grades 6, 9, 10, and 12. Support was found for predicted differences in work-values correlates across grades and between…