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Professional/Career Orientation, Awareness, and Their Relationship to Locus of Control
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Algadheeb, Nourah A. – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2015
This study aimed at exploring the differences in professional/career orientation and awareness while considering a number of variables including locus of control, academic specialization and school backwardness. Several measures were used to achieve the study's goals. The first two, a professional/career orientation measure and a…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Professional Development, Goal Orientation, Locus of Control
The Relationship of Locus of Control to Marital Status, Age, and Sex of Community College Students.
Frerichs, Allen H.; Ortman, Richard E. – 1979
A sample of 1,190 transfer and occupational students enrolled in four community colleges were administered the Rotter Internal-External Scale (I-E Scale) and asked to report their college program (transfer or occupational), their sex, their age (below 20, 21-25, and above 25), and their marital status (married or single). The I-E Scale measured…
Descriptors: Age, Community Colleges, Females, Locus of Control
The Occupational Possible Selves of Low-Income Women.
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Robinson, Barbara S.; Davis, Kathleen L. – 2001
Low-income women, ages 18 to 59, attending basic adult education classes (DHS group) or community college development classes (DEV group) in rural East Tennessee, completed questionnaires examining their occupational possible selves and their locus of control. The two groups were compared as to their number of hoped-for and feared occupational…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adult Basic Education, Career Counseling, Community Colleges
The Development of Guidelines for Community College Peer Group Counseling Evolving From a Study of Programs for Adult Re-Entry Women.
Elledge, Muriel K. – 1978
The effectiveness of peer group counseling on self-concept among adult re-entry women in Women's Education Development Incentive (WENDI) programs and other related programs was studied to develop a set of guidelines for community college peer group counseling. The study involved using the Adult Nowicke-Strickland Internal-External Scale for pre-…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Community Colleges, Counseling Services, Developmental Programs
A Study of Leadership Styles of Administrators at Los Angeles Southwest College.
Hadley, Ollie B.; Andrews, James – 1978
All nine administrators at Los Angeles Southwest College (LASC) were surveyed to determine their political, social, and psychological background. Three separate instruments focused on leadership style, need for authority, and locus of control. Comparisons were made to determine the extent to which leadership styles were similar and to discover…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Age, Authoritarianism
The Adult Minority Women in the Community College.
Wagner, Mary Lou – 1980
Interviews were conducted with 15 Black and 15 Puerto Rican women students from Brookdale Community College, New Jersey, and with 15 Black and 15 Puerto Rican women not attending college in order to determine: (1) if adult, minority women enrolled in college were more self-directed than those who had not sought further education; (2) the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Students, Blacks, Community Colleges
Personality and Biographical Predictors of Academic Achievement in Community Colleges and Technical Institutes.
Griffin, John Michael – 1978
The correlation between specific personality and biographical variables and the grade point average (GPA) of 211 first quarter community college and technical institute students was investigated using the Adult Nowicki Strickland Internal-External scale to determine locus of control, the Post High School Self-Concept of Academic Ability scale, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Community Colleges, Ethnic Groups