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Download full textWalls, Richard T.; Gulkus, Steven P. – 1974
The purpose of the study is to test the notion that job reinforcers and occupational values are related to vocational maturity. The importance of 21 reinforcers and 11 values were rated by 207 vocational rehabilitation clients and 59 graduate students. The dependent measure was the Adult Vocational Maturity Index. Older subjects with more…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Occupational Aspiration
Peer reviewedWalls, Richard T.; Gulkus, Steven P. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1974
Subjects who value such job characteristics as "getting a felling of accomplishment, fair company policies, trying out their own ideas, doing work without feeling it is morally wrong, making their own decisions, (and) planning work with little supervision" tend to have higher aspirations and expectations, but lower goal deflection. (Author)
Descriptors: Expectation, Goal Orientation, Graduate Students, Occupational Aspiration
Currie, Lawrence E. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1975
The conceptual framework of vocational awareness, the development of theVocational Awareness Index, and implications for research and practice are presented. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Counselor Role, Decision Making, Measurement Instruments
Peer reviewedKelso, Geoffrey I. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1975
Cross-sectional data were provided by 1484 male high school pupils. All subjects completed either the Otis Intermediate Test or the Otis Higher Test, Crites' Vocational Development Inventory (VDI), and the author's Student Survey. Results indicate that subjects' anticipated stage of leaving school was significantly related to realism of vocational…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Educational Research, High School Students, Intelligence Differences
Peer reviewedGable, Robert K.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
This study examined differences in vocational maturity of women across different levels of internal-external control and typical versus atypical vocational choice. Results indicated that internally controlled women had significantly higher vocational maturity than externally controlled women; no differences were found in vocational maturity…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Development, College Students
Peer reviewedLunneborg, Patricia W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1975
In a sample of 1622 students in college for three years, 24 percent indecisive students were found and compared with vocationally decisive students (having majors) using precollege measures of achievement, aptitude, and interest. Measures of interest differentiation were of particular concern. Most important to vocational indecision, however, was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, College Students, Decision Making Skills
Swails, Richard G.; Herr, Edwin L. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1976
This study contributes to the current ambivalence in the research literature about the utility of short-term approaches in the vocational development of high school students. (Author)
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Decision Making Skills, Group Counseling, High School Students
Helbing, Hans – 1978
The relationship between separate dimensions of vocational maturity and different self-concept and identity variables were examined. Subjects were Dutch students, age 14-18 years. The vocational maturity dimensions were measured by Dutch adaptations of American vocational maturity scales. Instruments for self-concept and identity measurement were…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Decision Making Skills, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Stages
