In a recent article Harlow (1973) provided some empirical data regarding the upward mobility aspirations of professional employees. The results reported here test the two hypotheses she investigated and a third hypothesis relating organizational commitment and preference for promotion. (Author)

This study was designed to assess the effects of socioeconomic status on the results obtained from the Ohio Vocational Interest Survey (OVIS). It was concluded that established norms were of little value in interpreting OVIS results to inner-city disadvantaged students, especially males. (Author)

Investigation of mental health and job satisfaction by means of Kornhauser's (1965) questionnaire appears to demonstrate the existence of at least six factors concerned with personal life adjustment. There was a failure to find any substantial relationship between mental health and job satisfaction. (Author)

Fourteen presumed measures of career orientation as well as Super's Work Values Inventory were administered to college women. Work-oriented women tended to choose traditionally feminine occupations in contrast to the career-oriented women whose aspirations included higher level and less traditional occupations. (Author)

An empirical validation of the 114 Worker Trait Groups of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles was performed by comparing the factor structure of the worker trait components of the 114 WTG's with the factor structure of a random sample of 800 of the 4000 jobs used as the basis for DOT. (Author)

This study investigates the extent of career stability and the patterns of career change which have occurred in the lives of Project TALENT twelfth grade students in the 11 years elapsing since they were tested. (Author)

Studies were undertaken in a department store and in four school districts to determine if managerial motivation is related to management success indexes and whether female managers have less managerial motivation than males. Managerial motivation did prove to be significantly related to the success of female managers. (Author)

In an effort to examine whether the previously established relationship between vocational choice and self-ratings on Holland's personality stereotypes among college freshmen would be strengthened with a sample of male college seniors, 109 subjects completed a questionnaire to select career stereotypes which described them best. (Author)

The SSHA and the VPI were administered to 100 undergraduates. The scales of the two instruments were compared using canonical analysis. The analysis revealed a relationship between a component of the SSHA and a component of the VPI which accounted for 31 percent of the variance of the two instruments. (Author)

Anonymous questionnaire data were obtained from 312 policemen in a midwest city. In general, these police appeared to be not dissimilar from other "typical" industrial samples as regards their patterns of job satisfaction, need gratification and orientation, job involvement, dogmatism, anti-Negro bias, and supervisory orientation. (Author)

This study was designed to test Holland's hypothesis that parents encourage the development of their own personality types in their offspring. Results indicate that relationships exist between the personality types of fathers-sons fathers-daughters and mothers-daughters while no relationship was confirmed between mothers-sons. (Author)

Studies were conducted with samples of students from four universities to determine if male-female differences in motivation to manage existed. Although differences were not found among students majoring in education, females in business administration and the liberal arts did prove to have lower managerial motivation scores than male samples.…

Vocational aspirations were investigated in a sample of 282 children between the ages of three and six. Results indicate that the pattern of vocational projection differs for males and females and that females undergo occupational foreclosure earlier than their male peers. (Author)

Data were collected from 1016 students in grades 9-14 from 50 work education programs, and from 696 similar students who held part-time jobs but were not participating in work education programs. Participating students were significantly more satisfied with their jobs than were the nonparticipating students. (Author)

A study, controlling for age, sex, and vocational commitment of 290 adolescents (ages 17-19 and 20-22), was conducted to determine the relationship between self- and social alienation attitudes and the identity-role crisis of the adolescent stage. (Author)