Showing papers in "Journal of Vocational Behavior in 1984"

TL;DR: In this paper, a measure of agreement for partially ordered data is suggested that makes use of the k categories with the highest ranks, the ranks of the remaining categories being disregarded.

TL;DR: In this article, a Personal Data Blank, the Salience Inventory, and the Career Development Inventory were collected from some 382 students of whom about 55% were girls, using a personal data blank, the second, while measures of career or vocational maturity were derived from the last-named instrument.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the hypothesis that time perspective is a component in vocational maturity and career decision-making and found that it is correlated with planfulness and degree of indecision.

TL;DR: This paper assessed the role of adaptive versus maladaptive coping behaviors and personal characteristics in influencing the affective reactions of managers to four role stressors, and found that adaptive coping was found to moderate the relationships of several role-stressors with felt stress and job satisfaction.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between Type A behavior and sales performance, as well as job satisfaction, among a sample of 355 life insurance agents and found that no significant differences were found between type A and B agents.

TL;DR: In this paper, a sample of male professional accountants at different career stages were compared with respect to their work needs, work attitudes (intrinsic and extrinsic satisfaction, organizational and professional commitment), and vocational preferences.

TL;DR: The authors examined employment outcome among recipients of a liberal arts BA at a state university, 1 year and 3 years after graduation, using cross-tabular analysis with controls to specify high-risk groups.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the relationship between a three-stage model of careers (establishment, advancement, and maintenance) and facets of managers' job satisfaction and find that managers in the establishment stage were significantly more satisfied than those in the advancement and maintenance stages.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed personality and background features of men in female-dominated professions by comparing survey data on 54 men employed in atypical professions (A) with 63 men (S) employed in sex-typical fields (S), and found that A tended to report having had employed mothers, having distant relationships with their fathers, and having positively influenced in their career choices by women.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used an Institutional Cycle design to investigate changes occurring after participation in internships with three cohorts of college age students, and found that the profiles of the students closer to those of campus recruiters.

TL;DR: In this paper, three aspects of career exploration (environment exploration, self-exploration, and the amount of information acquired) were examined as predictors of interview performance (interview rating and self-rating) and outcomes (call-back interviews and job offers).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors tested whether self-esteem and mature career attitudes related to one another and complemented one another in predicting academic and work achievement for 174 college students, and found that selfesteem facilitates development of mature career attitude, which in turn promotes academic and career achievement.

TL;DR: The results of the regression analyses failed to provide support for the assumption that a rational style is the most effective in accomplishing this careerrelated task, but indicated strongSupport for the conclusion that the use of dependent decisional strategies is damaging, particularly in early stages of the decisional process.

TL;DR: This article examined work role satisfaction as related to employment outcome among recipients of a liberal arts BA at a state university, 1 year (N = 218) and 3 years after graduation, using cross-tabular analysis, analysis of variance, and t tests to assess shifts in satisfaction over time.

TL;DR: In this paper, a predictive model built upon a multiple role conflict/felt responsibility conceptual framework and containing six previously untested predictors and nine previously tested organizational-related predictors of organizational commitment was investigated.

TL;DR: Choi et al. as discussed by the authors examined the effectiveness of the CHOICES in improving the career decision making of university students through the utilization of the two instruments, (a) the Career Decision Scale and (b) the Occupational Scale of the Assessment of Career Decision Making).

TL;DR: In this paper, an Adlerian vocational theory is proposed and specific hypotheses and corollaries, each derived from the substantive base of Individual Psychology, are presented and explained, and the theoretical framework is analyzed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize results of studies on the relation of work status (retired, employed part time, employed full time) and subjective well-being (SWB) and the weighted mean of the work status/SWB relation across all studies was.18.

TL;DR: In this article, a 10-item scale of perceived occupational opportunity is proposed to evaluate the internal reliability and construct validity of a linear composite of the perceived opportunity in the context of a structural equation model linking perceived opportunity to social origins, adolescent career plans and early socioeconomic attainments.

TL;DR: A review of the literature related to vocational behavior and career development published during 1983 can be found in this article, where a review is organized around issues pertinent to the counseling psychology perspective (i.e., career development, vocational choice, vocational behavior of women, assessment, intervention strategies) and industrial/organizational psychology perspective on vocational behavior.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model of decision-making is suggested as a potential tool for assisting people in the process of career decision making, based on the subjective meaning of the values involved in the decision.

TL;DR: The authors compared the hierarchical and the hexagonal-circular models for the structure of interests and found that the former fit the data at least as well as the latter, while the latter did not.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study was conducted to determine some aspects of occupational information relevance while assessing differences in cognitive complexity between vocationally decided and undecided subjects, using the Cognitive Differentiation Grid, 48 hr after the packets were distributed.

TL;DR: The Medical Career Development Inventory (MCDI) as mentioned in this paper is a career maturity measure for a homogeneous population of adults who encounter a common set of vocational development tasks, which includes 35 coping behaviors germane to dealing with the vocational tasks constituting the career development continuum of physicians.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the influence of organization tenure on the relationship between job performance and overall satisfaction, satisfaction with work, and satisfaction with supervision, using data from a sample of 116 technical employees in a medium-sized industrial firm.

TL;DR: This article found that dyslexic men had higher level jobs than the average man but they were much less likely than the controls to become professionals, and they rarely entered jobs such as physician, lawyer, or college teacher which require higher degrees; instead most became managers or salesmen.

TL;DR: The validity of applying H. H. Kelley's covariation attribution model to understand the perceived causes of success and failure of others' job seeking activities was first tested in a laboratory study before testing the same theory on the self-attributions made by 82 unemployed in a field study as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, a two-part test of Maslow's theory of human motivation was explored: (1) the relationship between need importance and need deficiencies, and (2) the relation between need deficiencies and life satisfaction.

TL;DR: In this article, the prestige of six occupational clusters was studied in relation to gender of the 369 college students who rated the prestige and to the gender of imagined jobholders while envisioning women or men holding those jobs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tested aspects of Super's self-concept theory of career development with a sample of British schoolchildren, and found that selfconcepts and concepts of occupational preferences do have a role in career development, though there were some indications that the theory is more applicable to more able youngsters and to those high in self-esteem than to others.