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Vocational Guidance Quarterly | 79 |
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Lunneborg, Patricia W. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1974
Relationships of current employment to variables such as supplementary study, grades, reason for choosing major and plans at graduation were explored in psychology graduates. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Planning, College Graduates, Employment, Higher Education
Ishida, Helen – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1975
Using the Strong Vocational Interest Blank, an occupational interest scale for dental hygienists was developed, and comparisons of interests were made between graduates of two- and four-year programs. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Dental Hygienists, Higher Education, Occupational Aspiration
Healy, Charles C. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1974
Scales of the Career Development Inventory correlated significantly with certainty of career goals for college students but not with the incorporation score. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Rating Scales, Research Projects
Dubin, Samuel S. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1974
This article describes a model for updating and midcareer development and change. The model consists of motivation and work environment variables. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Career Guidance, Counseling
Loesch, Larry C.; Sampson, James P., Jr. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1978
Indices of university students' job knowledge and vocational preferences were not found to be significantly related. The theoretical and practical implications of this finding are discussed. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, College Students, Higher Education, Research Projects
Niss, James; Pledge, Michael T. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1977
This article summarizes the results of a study to determine employers' hiring preferences for vocationally trained individuals, and illustrates the use of these data to more accurately estimate job openings. (Author)
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Employment Qualifications, Job Training, Research Projects
Almquist, Elizabeth M. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1974
College men are shown to hold more liberal attitudes toward working wives than has generally been assumed. Many men prefer a wife who pursues a full-time career. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Students, Employed Women, Feminism
Kaniuga, Nancy; And Others – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1974
Even television programs are thought to distort the real-life occupational distribution of women workers by favoring sex stereotypes and representing a narrow range of portrayed occupations for women. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Employed Women, Females, Media Research
Parker, Carol; And Others – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1974
This article presents a model for college-level group vocational guidance in which a variety of activities are employed to facilitate occupational exploration and self-assessment. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Career Planning, College Students, Group Counseling
Newlon, Betty J. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1978
The results of this survey of Arizona counselors seem to dispel the belief that practicing secondary counselors lack contact with the world of work, and suggest further research in this area. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Education, Employment Experience, Research Projects, School Counselors
Sampson, James P., Jr. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1978
This study sought to determine what differences, if any, exist in the way students from different geographic regions weight the importance of ten career-related values. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Geographic Location, Geographic Regions
Collison, Brook B.; Dunlap, Suzanne Fitzgerald – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1978
Career education team members from 76 school districts participated in an Update Workshop. Data collected from participants as part of a Nominal Group Technique indicated that there are seven dimensions of career education program initiation that are critical to program success. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Education, Models, Professional Continuing Education, Program Design
Givens, H. Lytle; Garbin, Albeno P. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1977
Research for this article showed that most of the flight attendants decided "late" to enter this occupation, that others did not influence the flight attendants' choice of occupation, and that flight attendants chose their profession because it represented a change in life-style. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Females
Robinson, Daniel C.; Zytowski, Donald G. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1977
Few biases were found in counselor interpretations of a single Kuder Occupational Interest Survey profile attributed to hypothetical persons who differed only in terms of race, sex, and age characteristics. (Author)
Descriptors: Bias, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Counselor Attitudes
Harasymiw, Stefan J.; And Others – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1977
Results of an investigation of current attitudes toward occupation groups are presented and compared with similar investigations made during the past 50 years. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Longitudinal Studies, Occupations