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Personality Differences And Atypical Vocational Choices By Women, Vicky D. Burgess
Personality Differences And Atypical Vocational Choices By Women, Vicky D. Burgess
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine and compare some of the personality characteristics of junior high school students as they related to the students' later vocational choices. More specifically selected personality characteristics observed in girls who later made typical or atypical vocational selection were compared. Both typical and atypical girls were also compared to boys on these selected personality characteristics.
Tests used in this study to measure cognitive need and flexibility were Anderson Self-Reporting Need Achievement Questionnaire, Berlak School Work Habit Questionnaire and Resnick Self-Reporting Need Cognition Questionnaire. Tests used to measure social attitudes and ideology were "Have"--"Have …