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Tinsley, Howard E.A.; And Others – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1983
Examined the causal relationship between sex-role attitudes, cognitive complexity, and career choice in 174 college women. Results showed a complex relationship which changes as a function of age and progress through college. Counselors must be aware of the interactions between cognitive and attitudinal factors. (JAC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Career Choice, College Students, Etiology
Cohen, Margaret W. – 1983
This paper demonstrates how issues of lifelong development are cogent at the undergraduate level by discussing the results of a study which explored individual differences among the preservice population. Fuller's developmental model of teachers' concerns combined with theories of life-span development provided the conceptual and operational bases…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Age Differences, Education Majors, Higher Education
Paloniemi, Susanna; Tikkanen, Tarja – 2000
A study examined how older employees themselves assess the effects of age on their learning at work and job competence and how older workers rate the importance of different aspects of competence. Then the study compared the results of the first two questions by looking at the subjective age-effect ratings on competence aspects of various…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age Differences, Age Discrimination, Aging (Individuals)