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The Relationship of Parental Attitudes and Parent Identification to Career and Homemaking Orientation in College Women
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Oliver, Laurel W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1975
The purpose of this research was to compare career-oriented and homemaking-oriented college women, who showed the motivational pattern previously found to be associated with their respective orientations, on the variables of parental attitudes (father and mother acceptance, concentration, and avoidance) and parent identification (father or…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Career Choice, College Students, Females
Career Plans of Men and Women in Gender-Dominant Professions.
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Shann, Mary H. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1983
Investigated sex differences in career plans of graduate students (N=559) completing training in male- and female-dominated professions. Analyses showed clear patterns of sex differences in the feminine professions. Except for child care, the plans of women in male-dominated groups were not significantly different from those of male colleagues.…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Nontraditional Occupations
Students' Perceptions of Female Professors
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Mackie, Marlene – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
This paper examines student attitudes towards academic women. University students (N=181) evaluated professors in terms of 21 semantic differential scales and an occupational prestige ranking instrument. Female professors were perceived as more competent than male instructors in both task and socio-emotional competence. Males were not assigned a…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Higher Education, Interpersonal Competence, Professional Recognition
Some Sources and Consequences of Career Exploration.
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Greenhaus, Jeffrey H.; Sklarew, Neil D. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1981
In a sample of college students, self-related exploration was positively related to satisfaction with the occupational decision of low anxiety students and negatively related to satisfaction among high anxiety students. Dissatisfaction with an occupational decision stimulated future work-related exploration for low anxiety students. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attitudes, Career Choice, Career Exploration
Career Stage as a Moderator of Performance Relationships with Facets of Job Satisfaction and Role Perceptions.
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Stumpf, Stephen A.; Rabinowitz, Samuel – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1981
Studied the relationship between performance indices and facets of job satisfaction, role ambiguity, and role conflict among 102 full-time faculty members across three career stages. Results indicated that an individual's career stage within a profession had an important moderating effect on facets of job satisfaction and role perception…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Ladders, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis
Career Roles, Psychological Success, and Job Attitudes.
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Stumpf, Stephen A. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1981
Investigates Hall's psychological success-based model of career development using path analyses across three faculty roles. The model received moderate support for each role. Found alternative paths from performance to job involvement and satisfaction with promotional opportunities but did not contradict the portions of the psychological success…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Faculty, Goal Orientation, Higher Education