Showing papers in "Journal of Vocational Behavior in 1983"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the utility of self-efficacy theory to the understanding and treatment of career indecision and examine the relationship of career decision-making selfefficacy to several components of vocational indecision.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship of mathematics self-efficacy expectations to the selection of science-based majors in college males and females, and found that mathematics selfefficacy expectation was significantly related to the extent to which students selected science based college majors, thus supporting the role of cognitive mediational factors in educational and career choice behavior.

TL;DR: The Career Exploration Survey (CES) as discussed by the authors is a survey based on theories of exploration, stress, motivation, and career preference, which is intended to facilitate further theory development and empirical research on how exploration affects career decisions, development, and job outcomes.

TL;DR: The authors found that men interpreted the vignettes more positively than did women, especially women, when the touching was combined with a comment on work, and this effect was exacerbated when the behavior was initiated by a male and/or higher status person.

TL;DR: The authors used a model of stress which assumes that stress is a function of the balance of demands, supports, and job constraints, and tested it on a homogeneous professional group of workers.

TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of life-span vocational role development is proposed, which must meet the conceptual and methodological requirements of a developmental approach, and it must be relational in the sense that it provides for the examination of the "goodness of fit" between individual and contextual developments.

TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship of three aspects of work schedules (shiftwork, length of workday, and work during weekends and holidays) with the perceived interrole conflict between work and nonwork.

TL;DR: In this paper, a group of female owners was compared to groups of female managers and secretaries on six variables under consideration: achievement motivation, locus of control, sex-role “masculinity,” and availability of models for ownership.

TL;DR: Tested personality-environment congruence and differentiation, singly and in combination, as measured by the Vocational Preference Inventory (J. L. Holland, Palo Alto, California, Consulting Psychologists Press, 1977b ), were predictive of reported job satisfaction for teachers employed in five subject matter areas.

TL;DR: The authors compared 48 black and 48 white college men who were matched using Duncan's (1961) socioeconomic indicator (SEI) ratings and divided into upper and lower socioeconomic groups, and found that race, SEI, and race × SEI differences in preference for artistic, realistic, and investigative occupations, respectively.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on role stress,conceptualized in terms of role conflict, uncertainty about acceptance of one's behavior by supervisors and peers, and role ambiguity.

TL;DR: The role of self-perceptions of career-relevant abilities in understanding the career aspirations of mathematically talented adolescent females is studied in this article, where female high school sophomores rated themselves on the 12 self-estimates of ability in Holland's Self-Directed Search.

TL;DR: In this article, an investigation of the educational, social, and psychological correlates of vocational maturity was undertaken in an Ontario high school involving a sample of 272 students, and it was found that higher CMI scores were associated with higher self-esteem, more internal locus of control, and more intrinsic work values.

TL;DR: This paper found correlations in the.10s and.20s between the Attitude Scale and the Competence Test and correlations within various parts of the CMI competence test, with a monotonie increase in CMI scores from grades 9 through 12 with significant grade and sex effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model for conducting research on the career development of special populations is presented, in which the impact of a variety of career-related variables on the attitudinal and cognitive aspects of vocational maturity is examined from the perspective of two special population groups, disabled and disadvantaged college students.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the career plans of 557 men and women completing graduate training in the male-dominated professions of business, law, and medicine and the female-dominated ones of education, nursing, and social work.

TL;DR: In this paper, the perceptions of men and women in dual-career families were mapped with a view to understand their concerns, priorities, and attitudes toward their work and family lives.

TL;DR: Holland et al. as discussed by the authors evaluated the effects of a career course taught by 11 instructors (two sections each) for college students, who were undecided about a major field or career, in a pre-post design using the Vocational Identity, Occupational Information, and Barrier scales of the My Vocational Situation.

TL;DR: This article investigated three aspects of the way high school seniors (166 males, 187 females) construe occupational alternatives: intensity (how strongly are career considerations related), conflict (how much conflict is involved in these relations), and evaluative accord (to what extent are one's stated preferences in agreement with the positivity with which occupations are rated on considerations).

TL;DR: In this article, a sample of 1081 senior high school students was administered the Work Aspect Preference Scale (WAPS) and complete-link cluster analyses were performed for males and females separately.

TL;DR: In this article, four derivatives of the Self-Directed Search (SDS), namely, accuracy in estimating one's profile, differentiation of one's six SDS personality types, consistency of the types within one's summary code, and congruence of the summary code with the preferred occupational area, were computed and correlated with other indices of career maturity for 138 community college students.

TL;DR: For example, this paper found that men and women appeared to hold highly similar ideas about the size of salary increments necessary to induce acceptance of various hypothetical promotion opportunites, and that women were more likely to accept a promotion than men.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the amount of support, encouragement, and discouragement women received from the important people in their lives when they considered enrolling in a male-traditional vocational course.

TL;DR: This paper examined the perceptions of psychic and economic rewards available in different occupations, the perceived costs of preparing for these occupations, and the perceived availability of jobs for college majors in business, education, and psychology.

TL;DR: In this article, a methodology for examining career preferences is proposed, which uses perceptual mapping techniques and external preference analysis to assess the attributes individuals believe are important in their career choices, and the results of a study undertaken to test the methodology are reported and appear that such results can be useful in analyzing reasons for career preferences.

TL;DR: The relationship between personality factors and occupational types provided additional confirmation of Holland's theory using an employed adult sample and no single personality factor was associated with status across occupational types.

TL;DR: In this paper, a 10-week period 24 kindergarten children in a treatment group were exposed to nontraditional vocational role models and curricular materials, and a control group was exposed to a curriculum unrelated to vocational or sex roles.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the relationship between job entry and job stress and found that skill uncertainty was associated with negative emotional arousal 1 month after job entry, and with positive emotional arousal 3 months after the job entry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of increasing numbers of women on the prestige and desirability of selected high-status professions and concluded that the existing empirical literature does not definitively address the question of whether or not an increasing female participation rate in high status professions will erode the prestige or desirebility of those professions.