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Direct linkDuffy, Ryan D.; Sedlacek, William E. – Career Development Quarterly, 2007
A sample of 3,570 first-year college students were surveyed regarding the factors they deemed most important to their long-term career choice. Students as a whole identified intrinsic interest, high salary, contributions to society, and prestige as their 4 most important work values. Additional analyses found men more likely to espouse extrinsic…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Freshmen, Student Surveys, Questionnaires
Peer reviewedMau, Wei-Cheng; And Others – Career Development Quarterly, 1995
Identified predictors that discriminated between nontraditional and traditional career aspirations in eighth-grade female students (n=930). Results indicate that educational aspirations, parental expectations, self-reported grade point averages, and science proficiency were the best discriminators between the groups, and that differences across…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, Engineers, Females
