Examines the effects of gender and a number of family experiences on young people's chances of going into postsecondary science training and science occupations in the years immediately following high school. Indicates that gender plays a significant role in choices involving early science training and occupations, especially training, and young…

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…

Used the concept of fuzzy variable to develop new sex-type, prestige, and Holland interest scales from the Occupational Scales of the Strong Interest Inventory. Describes intercorrelations among three measures of Holland themes and measures of sex type and prestige. Comments on potential counseling and research uses for the new measures. (JPS)

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.…

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…

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…

The results of a study of the self-efficacy of 59 male and 71 female students, at a midsized western university, using a psychometric assessment instrument called the Career Attitude Survey (CAS) developed for the study, may be summarized as follows: (1) females but not males exhibited greater self-efficacy for traditional female occupations than…

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…

In both the U.S. and the United Kingdom women academics are concentrated in certain subject fields. The causes of the different behavior and interests of men and women academics are likely to be a function both of cultural definitions of male and female roles in the wider society, and institutional factors associated with educational systems both…

To ascertain why some students choose one of these majors over another, 49 physical education and recreation majors were administered Holland's Self-Directed Search. A 2 x 3 fixed-factorial design was employed; sex and major plus a control group were independent variables. (Author/SJL)

Presents statistics on the status of female faculty members in China. Reports that in 1987, women comprised just over nine percent of the faculty. Indicates that women are most prevalent in the medical sciences and agronomy but scarcest in engineering and law. Predicts that more women will enter higher education careers. (SG)