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Peer reviewedTrusty, Jerry; Ng, Kok-mun; Plata, Maximino – Career Development Quarterly, 2000
Presents data from the National Education Longitudinal Study on participants who attended postsecondary institution within two years of high school and had chosen a field of study. Educational choices had a three-way Gender x SES x Race-Ethnicity interaction. Race-ethnicity effects were strongest for men at lower SES levels and weakest for women…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Educational Research, Ethnicity
Peer reviewedWakefield, James A., Jr.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1975
The relationships between the six scales on which Holland's theory is based and the five other scales of the Vocational Preference Inventory were investigated using canonical analysis. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Individual Characteristics, Interest Inventories, Personality
Peer reviewedYom, B. Lee; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1975
In the present study, the Vocational Preference Inventory scores for a group of black students and white students were factor analyzed and the black structure was rotated to correspond to the white structure. The correspondence between the variables for black and white students was found to be very similar. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Cultural Influences, Factor Analysis
