Investigated existence of gender differences in perceptions of availability of intrinsic and extrinsic job outcome factors in male-dominated, female-dominated, and sex-neutral occupations in undergraduate college students (N=216). Determined perceptions differed as a function of subject gender and occupational sex-type; importance of job outcome…

Examination of personality profiles of 131 women in female-typed occupations and 40 in male-typed occupations showed that 5 factors differentiated the personalities of the 2 groups: femininity, communality, self-control, status capacity, and dominance. Similarities between the groups were found in self-acceptance and achievement. (SK)

A survey of 927 registered nurses received 248 responses showing that more highly educated nurses engaged in more professional behaviors such as reading journals and updating skills. Attitudinal commitment to the profession did not differ significantly with educational level. (SK)

The 51 occupations pursued by 3,612 college graduates were located throughout Holland's hexagon by weighting scores from the Unisex Edition of the ACT Interest Inventory. A Hexagon Congruence Index developed to measure person-occupation congruence can be used with any combination of Holland types. (SK)

Managers (n=143) completed a simulation exercise involving requests for employment assistance for the spouses of relocating employees. About one-third authorized specific actions. However, managers offered more extensive assistance to the spouses of female employees. (Contains 60 references.) (SK)

Data from 238 Canadian employees in human services, service/sales, management, clerical, and physical labor occupations indicated that hose performing "people work" did not have significantly higher emotional exhaustion. There were differences between job-focused emotional work (work demanding emotional expression) and employee-focused…

Holland's [Holland, J. L. (1959). A theory of occupational choice. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 6, 35-45; Holland, J. L. (1997). Making vocational choices: A theory of vocational personalities and work environments (3rd ed.). Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc.] RIASEC types were initially developed using a restricted range…

The stability of occupational prestige rankings over time and among cross-sectional subgroups was demonstrated. Undergraduates from different regions, hometown sizes, and political orientations ranked occupations similarly in terms of relative prestige. The rank-order correlations of prestige were .88 with a 1925 study, .93 with a 1947 study, and…

Presents data indicating substantial differences in scoring the Miner Sentence Completion Scales used in the Bartol et al. study between the original scorers and both Miner and Ebrahimi. Analyses indicate that the Bartol et al. results are a consequence of scoring errors often found among less experienced scorers. (Author/BH)

Investigated students' information about gender traditional and nontraditional occupations and the relationship of students' stereotyping of occupations to predicted and actual knowledge. There was little relationship between actual and predicted scores for either sex. However, men's errors did not relate to occupational type, while women…

Students in the last grade of an Israeli high school were given an interest questionnaire drawn up according to Roe's (1956) occupational classification. Smallest Space Analysis of the responses produced an identical circular field structure for both sexes. Within each field the occupational levels were arranged in hierarchic order. (Author)

Six scales representing Holland's six personality types were developed for the SVIB. The results of this study show that the Holland theoretical structure, when applied to the Strong data, provides a useful model for organizing the data. (Author)

Presents an occupational classification system derived empirically and based on nine of many dimensions of professionalism. Results indicated the taxonomy represented expectations only to a moderate degree. A reasonable proportion of occupations had attributes closer to occupations in other clusters than to occupations in their own cluster.…

The Realistic scale of the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) and the Realistic and Social scales of the Self Directed Search successfully differentiated the occupational groups. However, the VPI Social and Enterprising scales did not differentiate between men and women in the same occupation. (Author)

Surveys completed by a random sample of 1,884 blue-collar unionized workers showed that perceived role enhancement opportunities (more task complexity and autonomy) were positively related to attitudes associated with promotion opportunities (commitment, work involvement, career opportunity satisfaction). This was especially true for workers with…