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The Relationship between Interests--Job Incongruity and Selection of Avocational Activity.
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Melamed, Samuel – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1981
A study of the function of leisure activities shows: people select leisure activities congruent with their personality; people in congruent occupations were vocationally satisfied and conceived their preferred activities as an extension of the activities they do at work; people in incongruent occupations compensate by selecting compensatory…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Career Choice, Congruence (Psychology), Employees
The Student Voice and School Science Education
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Jenkins, Edgar W. – Studies in Science Education, 2006
More recent work has complemented earlier studies of the "student voice" in science education by redirecting research attention to focus more directly on what students think about the form, content and purpose of their school science education and exploring the curriculum and pedagogical implications of the findings. Researchers have…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Science Education, Student Participation, Teaching Methods
Interest in Working with the Elderly: A Cross-National Study of Graduating Social Work Students
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Weiss, Idit – Journal of Social Work Education, 2005
The article presents a cross-national study of social work students' interest in working with the elderly, based on a sample of 679 graduating BSW students from 7 countries: Australia, Brazil, England, Germany, Hungary, Israel, and the United States. The findings among all the national cohorts show that the motivation to work with the elderly was…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Attitudes, Older Adults, Foreign Countries