The study was an attempt to reduce home career conflict experimentally by providing a measure of social sanction for professionally demanding career roles, and to measure the effect of this reduction on home and career interests. Results indicate that regardless of marital status, vocational interest can be raised. Implications for counseling are…

Study of accuracy in estimating scores on the Kuder, Edwards Personal Preference Schedule, and the Strong Vocational Interest Blank when scales were, and were not, categorized by levels of vocational relevance, indicates that relationships between scores increase as a function of vocational relevance. Discusses implications in terms of outcome…

Describes new univariate vocational maturity (VM) scaling, and relates the VM scales, sex, socioeconomic status, and I.Q. to set of career-tree-structure variable (by MANOVA technique) observed at two year intervals over nine year period. (Author/CJ)

Examines relationships between Sensation-Seeking Scale (SSS) and vocational interests measured by the Kuder and Strong Vocational Interest Blank, among alcoholics and undergraduates. Results support construct validity of the SSS and provide further evidence of modes of expression of stimulus-seeking needs in personality. (Author/CJ)

Chi/Square analyses of the responses of 470 male graduate students in psychology revealed significant relationships at the .05 level of confidence between and within person oriented occupations and non person oriented occupations in psychology. (Author)

This paper is based upon a thesis presented to Purdue University by the senior author in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the master's degree.

It was hypothesized that success as measured by academic achievement, was positively related to the congruence of the students' interests and personality traits with those of their instructions. (Author)

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This study examines the predictive value of the Holland Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) in determining persverance in engineering among three groups: students who were still majoring in engineering; students who had left engineering but were still attending the University; and students who had left the University. (Author)