Tried to determine reliability and validity of an adapted vocational indecision scale designed for undergraduates. Findings suggest that characteristics of the adapted indecision scale for the graduate students sample are similar to the characteristics of the unadapted instrument for the undergraduate sample. (Author)

Describes two studies comparing the criterion-related validity of sex-balanced ("unisex") interest inventory scales. Results indicate that psychometrically sound interest inventories can be constructed with sex-balanced items, and counselors may use inventories which provide sex-balanced score reports without sacrificing validity. (Author)

Studies are described which examine racial and sex role stereotyping in career information illustrations in the Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) and The Encyclopedia of Careers. Findings are discussed from the perspective of practical implications for vocational counselors. (Author)

Investigated differences between traditional-nontraditional and congruent-incongruent career aspirations of college women using the Vocational Preference Inventory, the Feminist Attitudes Inventory, the Desire to Work Scale, and the Study of Values. The findings showed that the feminist attitudes and the infrequency scale differentiated the…

Subjects were categorized into the statuses of Achievement, Moratorium, Diffusion, and Foreclosure on the basis of their responses to an identity status incomplete sentences blank. Characteristic differences were sought between the statuses on Sex-Role Attitude, Work-Role Salience, Atypicality of Major, and Self-Esteem. One function, work-role…

Male and female college students filled out the Bem Sex Role Inventory and responded to a set of five in-basket tasks taken from the Rosen, Jerdee, and Prestwich study of male managers. On some tasks, male and/or female subjects responded in a sex-role-stereotyped manner. There were no effects for androgyny level. (Author)

Relationships among women's role factors, self-estimates of competence, and career commitment were investigated. Female business students and alumnae completed the Attitudes toward Women Scale, the Performance-Self-Esteem Scale (PSES), and questions regarding home and career choices. As predicted, PSES scores were related to extent of career…

Reviews research on the prediction of employee turnover. Groups predictor variables into five general categories: attitudinal (job satisfaction), biodata, work-related, personal, and test-score predictors. Consistent relationships between common predictor variables and turnover were found for four categories. Eight methodological problems/issues…

The relation between sex and occupational role of story characters was systematically varied in reading material presented to preschoolers. Stories portraying a stereotyped relation between sex and occupation made girls more stereotyped in their responding, thus supporting the notion that reading content reinforces attitudes and ideas developed…

Results do not support the proposition that perceived role conflict and role ambiguity are uniformly unfavorable role perceptions. Rather, they suggest the differential influences of these role perceptions are dependent at least in part upon differences in the outcomes under consideration and the characteristics of the roles in question. (Author)

Compared the results obtained by two traditional designs on the Career Maturity Inventory-Attitude Scale with the effects of an alternative design: constructing a composite longitudinal gradient. The two traditional methodologies yielded different results from each other for males, but not for females. (Author)

Responses of a local sample of production workers to a job satisfaction questionnaire are compared with those of an earlier national sample. Differences between the two groups suggest that employees' life and work situations are at least as influential in changing questionnaire responses as the wording of the questions is. (Author/BP)

Post-tests show that the value confrontation procedure resulted in significantly greater frequency of information seeking for internally controlled subjects when compared to the reinforcement counseling and control procedures. Examines two procedures designed to enhance the career planning attitudes and behavior of rural adolescent males.…

Examines ways of modifying incremental influence. Results suggest that referent power can be altered by affecting the interpersonal attraction of group members. Implications for organizational intervention and practice are discussed, and some possible modifications to the theoretical framework of power are advanced. (Author)

A Repertory Grid was constructed to determine the perceptions held by secondary school students of people who gave them vocational counseling. Findings show that subjects made their discriminations between people on two major construct dimensions, an intimacy and a potency factor, and that vocational counselors appeared in two generalized figure…