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…

Vocational counselors of women need to consider key questions such as number of children women would like to have. Researchers need to investigate the amount of financial, clerical, and student assistance received by men and women scholars. Such research might in part explain sex differences in research productivity. (Author)

Tested the hypothesis that an abbreviated Self-Directed Search (SDS) would increase self-estimated career knowledge and decision making of students (N=173). Completing an abbreviated SDS decreased self-estimated career management competencies, but it did not affect tested career management competencies nor differentially affect men and women nor…

Investigated male and female college students regarding their perceptions of their college experiences, career plans, and influences on life choices. Interviews and surveys of college students indicated that males and females were both strongly career oriented, though there were gender differences in career motivations, preparations, and…

Recent research on sex differences in career and achievement motivation have used one dimensional definitions for the constructs. To investigate sex differences in four dimensions of career motivation, one dimension of achievement motivation, and three clusters of antecedent factors for young women and men, 212 high school graduates (112 females,…

Investigates the influence of sex, career plans, and teaching level on preferences for job factors among 486 graduates of a teacher education program. Provides comparative information on the job characteristics found most important by graduates who plan academic and nonacademic employment. (CMG)

Counselors and educators can help clarify factors involved in the vocational choice process with high school and college girls, where these factors differ from those affecting men. Clarification should be built into high school and college guidance programs for girls. Society will gain if women choose careers commensurate with their potential.…

A study to assess and compare aspects of career choice, career plans and career commitment of male and female pharmacy students is described. A questionnaire was designed incorporating Featherman's Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status and Blau's Career Commitment Scale. (Author/MLW)

Data in this survey indicate that high school seniors are more likely to expect or desire job training or education than they are to expect or desire to go into the military. More males expected to serve than wanted to, while more females wanted to serve than expected to. (Author/WI)

Surveyed 322 community college students to explore the interactions of age, sex, and role salience toward predicting value satisfaction in career decision making. Suggests ways employment counselors can assess values in all aspects of an individual's life-style for use in career-life planning. (Author/BH)

Analyses of the interrelationships of scales on common interest inventories and of the interest patterns of women selecting various occupations support the similarity of the structure of women's interests to the structure previously found for men. This information should be used to provide women with information about more and more diverse career…

Tested the hypothesis of greater reliance on the intuitive style by females and on the planning style by males in making career decisions. There were no sex differences in these high school and college samples for stage or style of decision making, vocational self-concept crystallization, or self-rated vocational decisiveness. (Author/BEF)

Discusses the functions of the Working Group on Career Issues for Women Scientists. Functions include developing opportunities and support for the recruitment, retention, reentry, and advancement of women in biomedical careers. (DDR)

Examines the construct of career-related decision-making difficulties among 1,843 Israeli adolescents. Three versions of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ) were constructed to match three decision situations. The structures of the revised CDDQ were found similar to that proposed by I. Gati et al. (1996). Boys reported…