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Falk, William W.; Cosby, Arthur G. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1978
The article reviews the dominant conceptual schemes used to study occupational choice, considers potentially female-specific variables, and provides a typology for the analysis of women's marital-familial statuses and work modes. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Females, Research Projects, Sex Differences

Gavin, James F. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1975
The purpose of this study was to examine a model for investigating employee mental health in industrial environments and, more particularly, to determine the extent to which a worker's perceptionss of the environment covaried with mental health criteria. (Author)
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, Mental Health, Research Projects

Krefting, Linda A.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1978
The distribution of males and females on a job, occupational classification, and job content were examined as predictors of job sex stereotypes in two studies. Results indicate that the base rate of males and females in the job is the most important predictor of job sextypes. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Females, Males, Predictor Variables

Walsh, W. Bruce; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1977
This study investigated differences between men and women employed in traditional male occupations using the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) and the Self-Directed Search (SDS). Results indicate men in traditionally male occupations, when compared to women in those same occupations, tend not to report higher mean raw scale scores. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Graduates, Occupational Clusters, Research Projects

Miller, Michael F. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1974
Two hypotheses were tested: (1) Vocational maturity is positively related to differentiation of work values within subjects. (2) Vocational maturity is positively associated with intrinsic work values and negatively associated with extrinsic work values. Data analyses supported hypothesis 1 for females, but not for males, and partially supported…
Descriptors: College Students, Counseling, Relationship, Research Projects

Dipboye, Robert L.; Wiley, Jack W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1978
In an earlier experiment, college recruiters evaluated a videotape of an interviewee who was either male or female, and who displayed either a moderately aggressive or passive self-presentation. In the present paper, two studies are presented which replicate and extend the findings of the original experiment. (Author)
Descriptors: Employment Interviews, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Job Applicants, Research Projects

Peterson-Hardt, Sandra; Burlin, Frances-Dee – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1979
Women's lower achievement level in professions is explained by the Multiple Role Negotiation perspective as resulting from difficulty in balancing the "active," demanding roles of wife/mother and a high-level professional role. The findings reveal that neither males nor females perceive the female familial role as the "more active." (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement, Family Relationship, Females, Homemakers

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

Herr, Edwin L.; Enderlein, Thomas E. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
The purpose of this study was to investigate the usefulness of the Career Maturity Inventory (CMI) as a measure of vocational maturity. The findings indicate that scores on the CMI incrementally increase by grade level. However, the rate and level of this increase is influenced by sex, school, and curriculum effects. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Development, Curriculum, Evaluation, Longitudinal Studies

Esposito, Ronald P. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1977
This study examined, for 221 black and white male and female college students, relationships between the motive to avoid success and: (a) sex and race; (b) congruency, consistency, and differentiation of occupational choice; and (c) occupational aspirations. Results showed a significant sex difference on the motive to avoid success. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Motivation, Occupational Aspiration

Weller, Leonard; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
It was hypothesized that first borns would prefer person- and intellectually-oriented occupations. It was also predicted that women, more than men, would prefer person-oriented occupations. The Hebrew version of Roe's classification of occupations was completed by 146 individuals. Only the second hypothesis was confirmed. (Author/SE)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Birth Order, Individual Differences

Keeling, Brian; Tuck, Bryan F. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1978
Self Directed Search (SDS) raw score and same-sex normed standard score codes were obtained on a sample of 16- to 18-year-old New Zealand high school students. The 59 boys and 59 girls who showed differences in the first letter of their codes rated the attractiveness of selected DOT job descriptions. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Interest Inventories, Research Projects

Yanico, Barbara K.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1978
Women in home economics and engineering and men in engineering (N=231) completed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory and rating scales of satisfaction with and certainty of college major and intended occupation. Women in engineering scored in a more androgynous direction than did either men in engineering or women in home economics. (Author)
Descriptors: Androgyny, Career Choice, College Freshmen, Higher Education

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