Links between family social background, teenage career aspirations, educational performance and adult social status attainment are well documented. Using a contextual developmental framework, this article extends previous research by examining the role of gender and teenage ambition value in shaping social status attainment and earnings in…

Women scholarship winners during the years 1956-1960 were followed up in 1965 to determine their marriage and/or career plans and to learn of conflicts encountered in implementing these plans. Altogether, 85 percent of them said that they definitely planned on having a career; those seeking an immediate career scored higher on scholastic ability…

In 1968, 1188 freshman women were asked to report, retrospectively, which of 135 occupational titles they had ever considered as careers. A restricted range of occupations was considered early in life. While occupations preferred early were popular, not all early preferences persisted. Typically feminine occupations were the most persistent…

Theoretical statements by Talcott Parsons and others were used as a basis in deriving the hypothesis that degree of identification with the Mexican American subculture among adolescents is inversely related to desire for upward social mobility. (Author)

Hypothesizes that occupational perceptions are more specific for older age groups than for younger age groups. Hypothesis was tested by using latent root analysis and minimum residual factor analysis to analyze intercorrelations among six Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) scales for five large and diverse samples. Both analyses supported the…

Investigated differences between traditional-nontraditional and congruent-incongruent career aspirations of college women using the Vocational Preference Inventory, the Feminist Attitudes Inventory, the Desire to Work Scale, and the Study of Values. The findings showed that the feminist attitudes and the infrequency scale differentiated the…

The broad purpose of this paper was to investigate orientations toward military service held by Negro and white teenage boys, utilizing data gathered in rural East Texas during 1966. Negro and white youth were generally positive about military service and lower class youth with high aspirations differed little from other youth in their…

To evaluate the tenability of two causal orderings of variables in the development of career-orientation, responses of 92 college senior women to Need Achievement, Dating Frequency, and Career-Orientation items were analyzed. (Author)

The hypothesis that career salience would be positively related to the degree of self occupational congruence attained in an occupational choice was supported for males. The hypothesis that the correlation between congruence and occupational satisfaction would be greater for high career salient subjects for low subjects received no support.…

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of self esteem in occupational choice behavior. It was tentatively concluded that high self esteem persons tend to look at their own needs and relevant attributes in determining the satisfaction with their occupational choice, whereas low self esteem persons look more toward external…

Low and High identification rural economically deprived adolescent males, who had been previously surveyed as high school seniors concerning their post-high school plans, were surveyed again one year later concerning their present occupational status and feelings of personal satisfaction. There were significant differences between current…

Studies regarding status aspirations among Mexican-American youth have presumed that life goals are integrated and congruent. An alternative line of inquiry is suggested which questions these assumptions and specifies types of conflicts that may arise among occupational, educational, and familial orientations. (Author)