In this study, the authors examined the degree to which social-cognitive career theory (SCCT; R. W. Lent, S. D. Brown, & G. Hackett, 1994) explained the development of social justice interest and commitment. Data from 274 college students and latent variable path modeling were used to test theoretically and empirically derived SCCT direct and…

Voluntary withdrawals did not differ from the persisters on precollege ability and achievement measures. The male failures had lower achievement in high school than the withdrawals, while the female failures did less well than the withdrawals on the precollege ability tests. No generalizable differences were apparent among the groups on…

This study on the interaction of ability and personality indicated that while ability and personality have been shown to be independent dimensions, both contribute to discriminating between the four groups of engineering students as to their persistence and success in the program. (Author)

Among the results of the study on differing occupational interests of persistors and nonpersistors are: (1) successful persisters have engineering related interests and reject Social Service Interest: (2) successful transfers have verbally expressive and leadership interest and reject technical interest. (Author)

A multiple discriminate analysis of student role orientations as related to college dropouts yielded a significant function which indicated that defaulters and successful persisters as distinguished from probation persisters and dismissals have stronger preferences for social development and vocational behavior, moderate interest in academic,…

This study examined the relationships between persistence and/or transfer from a college of engineering and vocational interests. The SVIB profiles of persisters and transfer students showed extensive differences after 3 years. The decision to persist and/or transfer from a college of engineering is related to interest scores. (Author)

Created a model of persistence by integrating constructs derived from a number of theories relevant to women's career behavior. Results indicate that ability, self-efficacy, support-barriers, and interest congruence each added significantly to the model predicting persistence. Gender and expectancy-valence variables were not significant…

This study determines the efficiency of a system containing aptitude, achievement, and noncognitive data, and a measure of college performance in predicting the long-range educational-vocational decisions of engineering students. Noncognitive data best predicts between intellectually homogeneous student groupings whereas first-semester grade point…

Using a longitudinal study, identified factors related to persistence and non-persistence in science, math, and technology careers for students--especially women. Women's persistence correlated with the number of elective high school science courses taken; women with higher career commitment were more likely to have switched aspirations to another…

Investigated relation of client-counselor evaluation of initial interview to client return for another session. Findings from 5 professional counselors, 5 practicum trainees, and 290 college student clients showed client return positively related to longer intake interviews; deeper interviews; and greater client satisfaction, disturbance, and…