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Bodden, Jack L.; Klein, Alan J. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1973
This study investigated the relationship between cognitive differentiation level and the affective stimulus value of various occupations. Findings of the present investigation, conducted with upper-class college males, were consistent with the findings obtained in previous clinical and social judgment studies. Subjects were cognitively more…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Attitudes, Career Choice, Occupations

Greeley, Andrew M. – American Journal of Sociology, 1973
This study examines the theory that, despite social, economic, historical, cultural, and perhaps religious obstacles, many more Catholics are electing academic careers. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Catholics, Educational Research, Religious Factors

Cockriel, Irvin W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1972
Occupational scales of the Vocational Preference Inventory were correlated with the Basic Interest scales of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank. The 285 subjects were women freshmen in a College of Education. The results indicate that the scales are not highly correlated. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Freshmen, Interest Inventories, Vocational Interests

Wolkon, Kenneth A. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1972
The standard approach to women's occupational patterns was refined by dividing the Career group into Pioneer and Traditional subgroups. Using college alumnae, evidence was gathered to support this refined treatment of the Career group as two very distinct subgroups in terms of desire to work and work values. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Careers, College Graduates
Characteristics of Nurses: An Overview of Recent Research Published in a Nursing Research Periodical

Muhlenkamp, A. F.; Parsons, Jean L. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1972
Forty-eight studies in research were reviewed on the characteristics of nurses. The authors' purpose is to integrate into a single paper the major findings of research studies published in nursing Research'' during the last decade (1960-1970) that seem most relevant for counselors, practitioners, and researchers. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Individual Characteristics, Nurses, Research Reviews (Publications)
Winters, R. Arthur – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1972
Current explanations of the historical basis for the American work ethic are examined and determined to be inadequate in explaining the industrial labor work ethic. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Employee Attitudes, Work Attitudes, Work Experience
Spaeth, Joe L. – Amer J Sociol, 1970
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Graduates, Expectation, Males
Rose, Harriett A.; Elton, Charles F. – Vocat Guidance Quart, 1970
Proposes and demonstrates methodology for investigation of relationship between expressed and inventoried interests. Additional investigations comparing scores on the Vocational Preference Inventory, the SVIB, and expressed choice might establish the comparative validities of these methods of assessing vocational interest. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Classification, Interest Inventories, Interests

Johansson, Charles B.; Rossmann, Jack E. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1971
Vocational interest patterns of male economists on the SVIB were compared with data from non economists most closely resemble those of psychologists and to a lesser extent those of political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists. An economists' scale was developed for the SVIB. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Interest Inventories, Interests, Occupations

Kiehl, Robert – Integrated Education, 1971
Data on the comments and social characteristics of black engineers and students are presented. (DM)
Descriptors: Blacks, Career Choice, Engineering, Equal Education
Bodden, Jack L. – J Counseling Psychol, 1970
The results indicated no relationship between complexity and the making of a choice consistent with the subjects' ability. (Author)
Descriptors: Ability, Career Choice, Environment, Intelligence
Conte, William R.; Waggoner, Elizabeth R. – Amer J Occup Therapy, 1970
Descriptors: Career Choice, Group Dynamics, Occupational Therapists, Professional Occupations
DeRoche, Edward F. – Momentum, 1982
Reports on a survey of religious vocation awareness education. Lists common strategies and materials that may be used to reverse the trend away from religious careers and reviews selected diocesan religious vocation awareness programs. (DMM)
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Choice, Clergy, Priests
Backscheider, Paula – ADE Bulletin, 1981
Reflects on the number of English doctoral graduates who find careers in nonacademic fields and suggests that graduate programs in English could offer more practical career preparation. (AEA)
Descriptors: Career Choice, College English, Graduate Students, Higher Education

Newman, Katherine K. – Educational Leadership, 1980
Interviews with ten middle-aged, experienced teachers, reveal several stages of teacher career development. (MLF)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Teaching