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Relationships of Achievement Motivation and Sex-Role Identity to College Women's Career Orientation.

Marshall, Sandra J.; Wijting, Jan P. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1980
Career Centeredness places a career above other life activities as a source of satisfaction whereas Career Commitment concerns the intention of steadily pursuing a career throughout life. The expectation that Career Centeredness would be more characteristic of masculine women and correlate higher with achievement motivation was generally…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Career Choice, Career Development, College Students

Stewart, Abigail J. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1980
Marriage, achievement need, children and self-definition predicted negative career persistence and career activity patterns in some family situations. Self-definition was associated with professional career activity among unconstrained women, but with freelance activity among married mothers. Personality variables may predict behavior within broad…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Career Development, Family Influence, Females
Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH. – 1979
Intended as a resource in developing and conducting programs to encourage talented female students in broadening their career options and to increase positive self-awareness, this manual provides step-by-step procedures for replicating a fourteen-session diagnostic/prescriptive career development program for grade 11. Section 1, Program Overview,…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Assertiveness, Behavioral Objectives, Career Counseling