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The Reliability and Validity of a New Measure of Level of Occupational Aspiration
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Miller and Haller as discussed by the authors examined the characteristics of the Occupational Aspiration Scale (OAS) resulting from administrations of the instrument to eleventh grade boys and girls and concluded that the OAS is a valid measure of LOA.Abstract:
To meet the need for a practical, reliable, and valid measure of level of occupational aspiration (LOA), Haller (1957) has developed The Occupational Aspiration Scale (OAS). Although LOA has been recognized as a factor of some significance in the social mobility of youth (Empey, 19,56; Haller, 1959; Haller and Miller, 1963; Holloway and Berreman, 1959; Rosen, 1959; Sewell, Haller, and Straus, 1957), research has been restricted considerably by the lack of an instrument for measuring it. Evidence collected from several samples of male high school students suggests that the OAS is a valid measure of LOA (Miller and Haller, 1964). The purpose of this paper is to examine the characteristics of the OAS resulting from administrations of the instrument to eleventh grade boys and girls.read more
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Level of Occupational Aspiration: An Empirical Analysis.
TL;DR: The authors used data from 34,118 American high school students to determine patterns of responses (factor structures, reliabilities, means, and standard deviations) to an indicator of level of occupational aspiration (LOA).
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Obsessive‐compulsive adolescents and their parents: a psychometric study
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An empirical evaluation of a scale to measure occupational aspiration level
TL;DR: In this paper, the Occupational Aspiration Scale (OAS) was evaluated on 34,118 American high school students and found to be essentially unifactorial, and that factor is identified as level of occupational aspiration (LOA).
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