Reinforcers and Vocational Maturity in Occupational Aspiration, Expectation, and Goal Deflection.

Walls, Richard T.; Gulkus, Steven P.

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Publication Date: 1974

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Reinforcers and Vocational Maturity in Occupational Aspiration, Expectation, and Goal Deflection

Walls, Richard T.; Gulkus, Steven P.

Journal of Vocational Behavior, 5, 3, 381-390, Dec 74

Subjects who value such job characteristics as "getting a felling of accomplishment, fair company policies, trying out their own ideas, doing work without feeling it is morally wrong, making their own decisions, (and) planning work with little supervision" tend to have higher aspirations and expectations, but lower goal deflection. (Author)

Descriptors: Expectation, Goal Orientation, Graduate Students, Occupational Aspiration, Psychological Characteristics, Reinforcement, Research Projects, Vocational Maturity, Vocational Rehabilitation

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