Although career success is an issue of global concern, few studies have examined the antecedents of career success across cultures. In this study we test whether the relationship between individuals' self-enhancement values (achievement and power) and hierarchical status differs across 29 countries and whether this variation depends on countries'…

Contextual action theory was used to frame an exploratory qualitative study of young adult couples' experiences of transitioning from post-secondary education into the labor force, addressing the specific research question ''What kinds of projects for future work and life together do young adult couples jointly construct and pursue as they…

Survey data, collected from the People's Republic of China, were used to test Weng's (2010) four facet model of career growth and to examine its effect on occupational commitment and turnover intentions. Weng conceptualized career growth as consisting of four factors: career goal progress, professional ability development, promotion speed, and…

A social cognitive model of well-being (Lent & Brown, 2006, 2008) was tested in two studies (one cross-sectional, one longitudinal) with Portuguese college students. Participants in Study 1 (N = 366) completed measures of academic self-efficacy, environmental support, goal progress, academic satisfaction and stress, trait positive affect, and…

Over the past 25 years, numerous researchers have studied the effects of mentoring on work outcomes. However, several reviewers have noted that many of the observed relationships between mentoring and its outcomes are potentially spurious. To summarize this widely dispersed literature, a quantitative research synthesis was conducted focused on…

Hypotheses that higher manifest need for achievement would be significantly associated with higher client's self rating on training satisfaction, training success, and employability, lower fear of failure, and more internal orientation of the client with respect to his locus of control are not supported by the data. (Author)

To extend research on fundamental motivational orientations into a new domain, we explored the achievement (positive) and avoidance (negative) orientations of formal organization-based mentors and proteges as joint predictors of personal learning experienced by both parties. We also examined the extent of mentoring functions provided by mentors as…

The purpose of this research was to investigate the possibility of an interaction between need for achievement and need for affiliation in career-oriented and homemaking-oriented college women. As predicted, a significant interaction occurred between the two variables. (Author)

Responses from 284 of 428 college faculty found a significant relationship between research self-efficacy and productivity and between self-efficacy and causal attributions. Males reported significantly stronger self-efficacy beliefs, greater time spent in research, and greater productivity than did females. (SK)

Results support the author's contention that women's primary career decision, i.e., that between working'' and not working,'' is a function of the child-rearing mode of the parents. The field of occupation and the level within it is a secondary career choice, a function of a woman's level of achievement motivation. (Author)

Examines for female undergraduate students the relationship between fear of success, sex role attitudes, and career salience, and the relationship between fear of success, career salience, and trait anxiety. Results indicated that fear of success and sex-role attitudes, in combination, significantly predicted the level of career salience. (Author)

Examined the vocational interests and personality characteristics of 69 homeless unemployed men using the Vocational Preference Inventory. Results indicated significant occupational interest, comparable to data reported on employed adults and numerous vocational "types." Personality scales, however, were indicative of possible behavioral…

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)

Recent research has shown that academic choice and achievement may be partly a function of the student's standing on the field dependence/independence cognitive style dimension. The results of two longitudinal studies suggest that information about field dependence/independence may be of value for student guidance in the medical setting. (Author)

Needs for achievement and career mobility were measured for Mexican-American college graduates. Those with a moderate need for achievement were found to have the highest upward mobility. Those with either a high or low need for achievement had lower mobility. (Author)