The Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) was administered to black and white undergraduates. The overall VPI profiles of the two groups were significantly different. The black students scored higher on the Social, Conventional, Enterprising, Self-Control, Status, and Infrequency scales. The white students scored higher on the Masculinity scale.…

A questionnaire was administered to 135 male students who were enrolled in ROTC and 25 male students who had dropped out of ROTC. A ratio expectancy theory model was developed from the questionnaire as an operational definition of motivation to remain in ROTC. (Author)

In a study of career orientation among black and white college women, support was found for hypotheses derived from Rotter's Social Learning Theory. As hypothesized, variables expressive of external control predicted level of career expectation among blacks, whereas variables expressive of internal control predicted high career expectations among…

Male and female blacks and whites responded to two sex role inventories. Black women have more traditional sex role attitudes in the home environment than white women but the same sex role attitudes about working. Black and white women are more liberal in their sex role attitudes than men. (Author)

Two hypotheses were tested: (1) Vocational maturity is positively related to differentiation of work values within subjects. (2) Vocational maturity is positively associated with intrinsic work values and negatively associated with extrinsic work values. Data analyses supported hypothesis 1 for females, but not for males, and partially supported…

Several aspects of Holland's theory of vocational choice are examined using freshman and senior Omnibus Personality Inventory (OPI) and freshman Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) data for 833 men. Generally, evidence in support of Holland's theory is based on relationships which have been well established and known for a long time. (Author)

This study explored the differences in vocational maturity, academic aptitude, and achievement variables among female sorority students who made congruent, incongruent, and undecided occupational choices. The findings suggest that students in the congruent female group tend to be more vocationally mature. (Author)

Holland's theory served as a basis for designing a 15-hour career development seminar for 24 undergraduate students. Seminar participants evidenced significant improvement over 22 control students on four of the six scales of the Career Maturity Inventory. (Author)

Expectancy theory concepts were used to predict (1) the attractiveness of, (2) the amount of effort directed toward entering, and (3) the eventual choice of a job in relatively big and small work organizations. (Author)

This study investigated the tendency to view one's chosen occupation as ideal, the meaning of an ideal occupation, and the consequences of choosing an ideal occupation. It was found that the most likely students to consider their chosen occupation ideal were high in both self-esteem and career salience. (Author)

The constructs in Holland's theory were compared for male and female college students using the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) and an adjective checklist (ACL). The correspondence between the VPI for male and female college students' was high. The correspondence between the variables as measured by the ACL for male and female students was…

A representative group of occupations was examined within an attributional framework, utilizing the concept of perceived causality for success. Results supported several hypotheses and also revealed some systematic relationships between causes and between perceived causality for success and occupational prestige. (Author)

Male engineering students (N=340) revealed chosen major job function and completed the Family Relations Inventory (FRI). Engineering students in general are more likely to describe their dominant parent as Avoiding than as either Accepting or Concentrating. (Author)

This study explores how effective changes in information might be in altering sex stereotypes of occupations. College student subjects rated 20 occupations on 10 bipolar scales including appropriateness of the occupation for men versus women. ( Author)

Curriculum choices of 324 male and 157 female liberal arts students who took the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII) during freshman orientation were classified as congruent or incongruent on the basis of rated correspondence between three-letter codes derived from (SCII) Holland theme scales and expressed curricular choice. (Author)