A study of work values of mid-life students (ages 35-55) at a Virginia community college found that a work role allowing for achievement, creativity, and intellectual stimulation was of greater value to White mid-life groups than extrinsic values emphasizing economic returns, security, and work associates. Discusses implications for counseling.

The author describes a set of twelve curriculum modules called "Occupational Survival Skills" relating to the "human" aspects of work organizations. The modules were based on information from opinion surveys of workers, students, parents, and teachers on what occupational survival skills are and how to teach them. (MF)

A career decision-making model and program were developed to provide a counseling intervention and teaching materials to aid students in improving their career maturity and decision-making skills. Data indicated that students in the program significantly increased their caree maturity scores. (Author/MFD)

Comparing students in agribusiness sales, supply, and service courses to raw products in need of development, the author discusses the backgrounds of these students and their developing maturity through supervised occupational experience. (BM)

Effects of occupation upon 68 professionals and business managers were studied by means of retrospective focused interviews and objective sorting and rating procedures. Their occupation had nonintegrative effects on their values and self-concepts and autocentric and nonintegrative ones on their personal relationships. (Author)

Compares the career value system of college women preparing to teach business subjects at the secondary level with the values of women preparing for various other challenging careers in different fields of the business world. (Author)

The effectiveness of two career development treatments were compared. No significant differences were found. Implications for career development services are presented. (Author/ABB)

Compared economically dependent college students (N=20) with independent nonstudents (N=20) to assess the impact of prolonged student status. Results of a test battery showed prolonged student status appeared to (1) foster emotional dependence; (2) negatively affect achievement of identity but not self-esteem; and (3) retard vocational identity…

Recent work in the field of vocational education indicates that pooled data may be useful in (1) making decisions about the content of vocational education programs at orientation, exploratory, and preparatory levels, (2) evaluating the effects of vocational education on vocational maturity, and (3) teaching about career and curriculum…

Investigated the effect of locus of control on vocational maturity in a sample of Canadian high school students (N=700). Internal personalities scored higher than externals on various vocational maturity aspects. Found developmental aspects of Super's theory of adolescent vocational behavior largely substantiated. (Author/JAC)

Investigated the relationship of racial differences to incidence of vocational unrealism when both ability and socioeconomic status are assessed. Results showed most students were unrealistic and Black students were no more unrealistic than White students. Black students attributed more importance to and felt more confidence in obtaining choices.…

Examined the effects of a group counseling model on the vocational maturity, self-esteem and self-confidence, degree of conformity, personal effectiveness and integration, and perception of needs of reentry women. Short-term group career counseling was effective; counselor facilitation and mutual group support promoted positive personal change.…

Discusses two important theoretical notions about work training and adjustment: (1) a theory of career development by Crites and Super and (2) Rotter's social learning theory, as it relates to locus of control. The focus of the discussion is on recent research demonstrating the relationship between the two variables. (Author)

An examination of the performance of Grade 10 boys and girls on six Career Development Inventory subscales (dependent variables) through use of a three-way multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) on sex, father's education, and father's occupation (independent or classificatory variables) is presented. (Author/AL)

The purpose of this study was to develop and field test an instrument to measure the importance of interests, capacities, and values to a population of 1220 students, grades 5-12. Specifically, it sought to examine the middle (tentative) stage of Ginzberg's three-stage developmental theory of occupational decision-making. (Author/SJL)