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Chisholm, Rupert F. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1978
This study examines aspects of the job and off-job lives of technical and managerial employees. Results suggest that employees' feelings of alienation carry over strongly between the two life spheres but that only limited carry-over occurs between job activities and those away from work. (Author)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Job Satisfaction, Professional Personnel, Research Projects

DiMarco, Nicholas; Whitsitt, Susan E. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1975
This exploratory study compared the life style and interpersonal need orientation, leadership style, and perception of the organization structure of female supervisors in business and government organizations. (Author)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employed Women, Females, Leadership

Ivancevich, John M. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
A behaviorally specific motivational effort rating scale was developed and tested. The organizational specific scale results were examined and compared to those generated from the Landy and Guion scale. It was found that the organizationally specific and engineer relevant scale is a better predictor of two types of expectancies. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Comparative Analysis, Engineers, Expectation

Alston, Herbert L.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
The constructs in Holland's theory were compared for male and female college students using the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) and an adjective checklist (ACL). The correspondence between the VPI for male and female college students' was high. The correspondence between the variables as measured by the ACL for male and female students was…
Descriptors: Check Lists, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Individual Characteristics

Spokane, Arnold R.; Walsh, W. Bruce – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1978
Investigated occupational level differences among men and women employed in Enterprising environments using the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) and the Self Directed Search (SDS). All workers (N=84) were employed in Enterprising environments. Findings showed high occupational level workers tend to be more differentiated and more masculine…
Descriptors: Career Development, Comparative Analysis, Employment Level, Interest Inventories

Scissons, Edward H.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1978
Investigated similarity of clinical evaluation of personological characteristics across three different information sources. Subjects were independently rated by a single clinician on 18 criterion factors in each of three information source catagories. Results indicate a varying degree of convergence of multitrait clinical ratings dependent on…
Descriptors: Clinical Psychology, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries

Pastore, Jose; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1975
Data taken in 1970-1971 from three university-trained occupational groups in Sao Paulo's manufacturing industries are used in a path analysis to draw interoccupational comparisons concerning the antecedents of occupational wage differentials. As a whole the analysis illustrates a strategy of comparative occupational analysis. (Author)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Occupational Surveys, Occupations, Path Analysis

Taveggia, Thomas C.; Ziemba, Thomas – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1978
Investigated overall central life interests and attachments to work of 1112 male and female employees of six Southern California manufacturing firms. Male employees have a slight tendency to be more work oriented in their overall central life interests than female employees. (Author)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Interests, Job Satisfaction

Helson, Ravenna – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1978
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…
Descriptors: Authors, Career Development, Comparative Analysis, Individual Differences

Johnson, Richard W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1977
The relationships between the 37 pairs of same-named Occupational scales for men and women on the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory were studied for 1044 female and 1134 male college freshmen. Contrary to prior expectations, the use of the cross-sex scales reinforces sexual stereotypes. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Interest Inventories, Occupational Tests

Horton, Joseph A.; Walsh, W. Bruce – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
The study was designed to explore two areas: (1) the concurrent validity of Holland's theory for employed college degreed women using two different operational definitions (Vocational Preference Inventory and the Self-Directed Search) of vocational orientation; and (2) the relationships among same named scales across the VPI and the SDS. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Graduates, Comparative Analysis, Employed Women

Richards, James M., Jr. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1977
Measures of the ecological characteristics of states were developed through factor analysis. Then ecological characteristics of states and cities were related to the geographic distribution of veterinarians and physicians. Population size is the strongest correlate of the number of health professionals. Results for pet veterinarians resemble…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Ecological Factors, Environmental Influences, Factor Analysis

Broom, Leonard; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1977
This paper, a by-product of an extension of DOT to the Australian Census Classification of Occupations, attempts to validate worker function hierarchies in terms of worker traits. It shows that variation in worker traits across 21, 741 occupations listed in DOT is closely reflected in the 197 worker function profiles. (Author)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employee Attitudes, Employment, Employment Qualifications

Ward, G. Robert; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
The Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) and the Sixteen Personality Factors Questionnaire (16PF) were administered to 425 undergraduate students and compared using canonical analysis. The contributions of the scales of the VPI and the 16PF to the three relationships supported Hollans's theory of vocational choice, the use of the VPI for…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education

Lunneborg, Patricia W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1977
The convergent and divergent construct validity of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and the Vocational Interest Inventory was examined separately in samples of male and female college counselees. The validity of the SCII General Themes was strongly supported while minor weaknesses in certain Basic Interest and Occupational scales were…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education