Earlier research based on 81 Occupational Reinforcer Patterns (ORPs) suggested a nine-category classification of occupations. The present research, based on 148 ORPs, investigated the ability of that classificatory system to assimilate new information. (Authors)

The existence of a widespread perceptual structure of occupations is postulated. One hundred and twenty-five adolescent boys from five schools rated all pairs of 12 representative job names for overall similarity, and then ranked them for preference and prestige. The group similarity ratings were highly reliable. (Author)

One hundred eleven subjects were asked to indicate how much relationship with people is involved in 48 occupational titles. The results support Roe's classification of occupations: differences within occupational fields were found to be smaller than differences between occupational fields (F=8.53, p less than .01). (Author)

This study explored the differences on personality variables between upperclass students who made congruent and incongruent occupational choices. Findings suggest that students in the congruent male group tend to report better maintenance of personal and vocational stability and greater satisfaction than students in the incongruent male and female…

A sample of 1,877 high school seniors completed the Activities Index and High School Characteristics Index. The student responses were used to identify personality needs and environmental press differences across program and degree of program separation variables. (Author)

The relation of identification preferences in college women to maternal work history and maternal career attitudes was examined, using direct, forced-choice questions concerning perceived similarity and desire to emulate the mother or the father. (Author)

The present study investigated the efficiency of various existing measures, mainly psychological tests, for predicting job performance of mentally retarded workers in a sheltered occupational shop. Results indicated that existing measures are predictive of performance on some but not all jobs in a sheltered workshop. (Author)

This paper attempts to provide a framework by which educators interested in stimulating career development can choose the learning experiences most likely to have payoffs for different age youth. Eight stages of child development are described with career development themes suggested for each stage along with sample activities. (Author)

Ninety-four engineers were asked to describe their supervisors' leadership style, to indicate their expectancies whether performing effectively in their jobs would lead to job rewards and the valence of these rewards. Results indicated that leader consideration and employee expectancies operate in joint fashions to affect job performance. (Author)

The death-related professional, often fatalistic in his own views of his own death, must live up to the social expectations for his role performance whil simultaneously being a functioning human being who must encounter death at a personal level and a businessman who must earn his living from working with death-related concerns. (Author)

With the development of scales for the Strong Vocational Interest (SVIB) to measure the six cognitive interest styles propounded by Holland, a parsimonious and comprehensive mapping of the occupational world was available and lent itself to the study of measuring inheritance of vocational preferences among twins. (Author)

Women in four high-status, male-dominated professions-architecture, law, medicine, and psychology-are described in terms of a variety of historical, social, and career variables. (Author)

The purpose of this paper is to examine the basic vocational interest dimensions of women. The usefulness of the basic interest dimensions when counseling with women is discussed from a practical and a theoretical point of view. (Author)

The purpose of this research was to investigate the possibility of an interaction between need for achievement and need for affiliation in career-oriented and homemaking-oriented college women. As predicted, a significant interaction occurred between the two variables. (Author)

Vocational decision-making (VDM) behavior reported by noncollege-aspiring adolescents was measured by 32 indices derived from decision theory. Patterned differences were especially evident on indices assessing range of planning activities. A speculative model was developed to describe the relationship between VDM Clusters and performances…