A study, controlling for age, sex, and vocational commitment of 290 adolescents (ages 17-19 and 20-22), was conducted to determine the relationship between self- and social alienation attitudes and the identity-role crisis of the adolescent stage. (Author)

Examined nature of possible sex differences in vocational structure in 808 undergraduates and provided comparative standards for the most commonly studied cognitive features (integration and differentiation). Suggests the operation of sex differences in these features and discusses minimal size and questionable meaningfulness of differences in…

Examines the dispositions of authoritarian personalities to social sciences and nonauthoritarians to the natural sciences. It was found that authoritarianism is not unitary within the social sciences. Findings suggest a person who expresses interest in one social science can consider a science rather than humanities as an alternative. (Author/BEF)

Examines the degree to which the Growth Need Strength scales (job choice and would like formats) of the Job Diagnostic Survey correlate with, first, other measures of needs and values employed in research as moderators of the job scope-job satisfaction relationship; and, second, a measure of social desirability. (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.…

Presents an Adlerian vocational theory with several hypotheses and corollaries regarding: (a) life style, (b) work as life task, (c) family atmosphere and relationships, and (d) early recollections. Develops predictive vocational statements and offers the resulting framework as a stimulant to generate further study of Adlerian vocational…