Journal article
Career Salience, Work Values, and Vocational Indecision
Journal of vocational behavior, v 10(1)
01 Jan 1977
Abstract
The purpose here was to relate vocational indecision to: (1) the level of career salience or priority, & (2) the importance attached to specific work values. Freshman & sophomore Coll students (N=153) were divided into two major classifications based on the presence or absence of a stated occupational goal. Participants were administered D. E. Super's inventory (Work Values Inventory, Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1970) together with a modified short form of J. H. Greenhaus's saliency scale ("Self-Esteem and Career Salience as Influences on Career Choice and Occupational Satisfaction," unpublished PhD dissertation, New York U, 1970). Low career salience was associated with a relatively high incidence of vocational indecision. Students who were vocationally undecided tended to place less importance on intrinsic work values than did students who were committed to an occupation. The results suggest two sources of vocational indecision: high career-salience students who seek a job with intrinsic rewards, & low career-salience students who demonstrate little interest in the work world. Given the relatively small % of variance accounted for in the present study, a need for further research is emphasized. 2 Tables. Modified HA.
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Details
- Title
- Career Salience, Work Values, and Vocational Indecision
- Creators
- Jeffrey Greenhaus - Pilgrim Psychiatric CenterWilliam Simon - Pilgrim Psychiatric Center
- Publication Details
- Journal of vocational behavior, v 10(1)
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Management
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1977CY40200012
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0001665540
- Other Identifier
- 991020542598904721