Seventy-five male and 77 female college students completed the Personality Adjective Check List and Self-Directed Search. Results show that Millon's personality styles and Holland's occupational types are reliably linked, seeming closest in the concept of social dominance-submission and emotionality-restraint and most divergent in the view of…

Investigated sex differences in coping with career decision making among 247 undergraduates. Men and women differed on three of four coping factors. Men scored significantly higher on Self-Efficacy Behavior while women scored higher on Reactive Behavior and Support Seeking Behavior. Pattern of relationships between coping and career indecision was…

Examined Gottfredson's postulation that individuals are more likely to sacrifice prestige than sex type preference when career compromise is needed in college students (n=246). Results indicated prestige more often used as preferred factor than sex type, but career compromise behavior was affected by gender and degree of contrast in prestige and…

Examined the effects of gender and sex-role identity on vocational indecision. Results revealed that sex-role orientation was strongly related to subjects' levels of vocational undecidedness. Nontraditionally sex-typed subjects scored at significantly high levels on all indecision indices. However, no gender-related differences were found.…

Compared validities for females and males on the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII). Subjects took the SCII and a satisfaction measure three and one-half years after initial testing. Excellent predictive validity was evidenced for 42.5% of females and 59.3% of males. Concurrent validities were 58.0% and 64.0%. (Author/BEF)

Explored relation of sources of efficacy information to mathematics self-efficacy percepts and relations among self-efficacy, outcome expectations, interest in mathematics-related college courses, and choice of science-based career among 138 undergraduates. Efficacy informational sources were significantly predictive of gender differences in…

College students (n=200) completed the Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy Scale-Short Form (CDMSE-SF) and Skills Confidence Inventory; 147 completed the CDMSE-SF and Occupational and Mathematical Self-Efficacy Scales. Career decision-making self-efficacy was more highly correlated with generalized self-efficacy than global self-esteem,…

Analysis of responses from 165 undergraduates on the Career Decision Making Self Efficacy Scale revealed high internal consistency for the instrument and moderate correlation between it and the Career Commitment Scale. No gender or ethnic differences were found in this correlation. Blacks scored significantly higher than whites on both measures.…

Compares patterns of interest among male and female undergraduate students using two instruments based on Holland's theory of occupational choice. Males scored higher on the realistic scale of the instrument, while females scored higher on the social and enterprising scales. On the cocurricular inventory, males obtained higher realistic and…

To examine the interrelationships among undergraduate students' interests and values, their self-concepts, and their choice of an academic major, 298 college students (116 males, 182 females) completed a self-report questionnaire, the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale, and the Allport-Vernon-Lindzey Study of Values. An analysis of the results showed…

Examined undergraduate students' willingness to explore, enter, and predict success in three occupations as a function of subject sex and information about occupational sex ratio, salary, and position availability. Results indicated males were more likely to report an interest in further exploration of and entry into the occupations, as well as to…

Examined the relationship between students' sex, class, and participation in athletics with their ability to formulate mature career plans. Students (N=568) completed questionnaires, which showed freshman and sophomore male athletes did not formulate career plans to as great an extent as freshman and sophomore nonathletes. (BH)

Assessed the validity of using systematic life history information to predict three vocational decision-making criteria in 200 college students: vocational decidedness and its two components, vocational identity and vocational maturity. Significant typologies were identified, however, results indicated that the overall construct of vocational…

A positive relationship between vocational crystallization and self esteem was assessed by observing differences on two measures of vocational crystallization in students high and low in self esteem scores. No differences according to self esteem were observed. Differences were observed in the certainty of high and low self esteem students. The…

Data from Japanese university students (176 males, 210 females) showed that females had significantly higher self-efficacy for female-dominated occupations, significantly lower for male-dominated ones. Self-efficacy for male-dominated occupations was associated with instrumentality; for female-dominated occupations it was associated with both…