The aim of this article is to report the results of an empirical study on adolescents' interest, self-efficacy, and vocational interest in technology and design. Following the expectancy-value model, we wanted to know how context-specific interest in technology and perceived self-efficacy in solving technical tasks are developed at lower…

Purpose: The study uses data drawn from a senior finance major cohort of 78 female undergraduates at Zayed University (ZU)-UAE to investigate factors, which increase the likelihood of achieving better academic performance in an Islamic finance course based on information about socioeconomic background of female students. The paper aims to discuss…

In today's economic climate, government is now considered by many to be the "employer of choice." However, employers at all levels of government may eventually lose their recent gains in the war for talent, as the economy improves. Accordingly, it is important to explain how public sector managers viewed the relative advantages and…

In Texas, there is an increase in the enrollment of men of various ethnicities in nursing schools, especially Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) programs. As these men strive to complete the nursing education, they face many concerns that center on barriers that are encountered in what is still a predominately Caucasian and female environment. In…

Included herein is the conference proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Psychology: Ideas and Innovations, sponsored by the Psychology Department of the State University of New York at Farmingdale. The conference theme for 2012 was: The value of an undergraduate degree in psychology: Why psychology--Why now?. The Conference…

Examined the relationships among career, marital, and family-role salience variables, parenthood motivations, and childhood paternal and maternal relationships for graduate-student mothers and those choosing to remain childless. Results revealed significant differences in types of motivations, levels of parental-role salience, and degrees of…

A scoreable biographical data key was developed for a group of women lower level managers, and applied to male and female managers. Showed statistical validity for both the cross-validation sample and for the samples of female and male managers. (Author)

Investigates the influence of family characteristics, psychological factors, and socioeconomic factors on youth's occupational status aspirations, female aspirations for atypical occupations, and minority and upper-class youth's employment aspirations. (Author/MJL)

Women at a liberal arts college were nontraditional in terms of their educational and career goals, and traditional in terms of plans for marriage and motherhood. Age, grade, religious upbringing, college major, enrollment in Women's Studies courses, and mothers' educational attainment were all significant predictors of life goals. (Author)

Examined the amount of support, encouragement, and discouragement 470 women received from others when considering enrolling in a male-traditional vocational course. Results revealed nontraditionals consistently received more support and encouragement than traditionals. Nontraditionals and those who considered the male-dominated program received…

Examined the nature and extent of sexual harassment for women (N=439) graduates from a college from 1945-1980. Responses to a questionnaire indicated that less than 40 percent of the participants had experienced behaviors relating to sexual harassment. Suggests response strategies to harassment. (RC)

While investigations of the impact of parental factors on children's career choices have identified variables that appear predictive of career choice in males, variables which influence career choice in females are less well documented. This study used social learning theory as a framework for examining the impact of parental reinforcement,…

Many successful career women fail to reach their full potential because of the imposter phenomenon, an inabiltiy to experience themselves as successful career persons. Career women were studied to investigate variables which may be used to predict the imposter phenomenon and also to test the hypothesis that successful career women who are able to…

Four symposium papers report the results of a longitudinal study of career development and life changes for a sample of 1,967 female college graduates in the Michigan Student Study who were studied in 1967, 1970 and 1981. The first of the papers, entitled "Where Are They Now? Career Outcomes for the Original Role-Innovators," by Sandra…

Underrepresentation of women in higher status, traditionally male occupations has been attributed to sex-role socialization and to discrimination. Female students entering traditionally male professions may suffer many of the same pressures that have prevented other women from entering these fields. Undergraduate women (N=64) and men (N=21) in…