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Building Evidence of Validity: The Relation between Work Values, Interests, Personality, and Personal Values
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Leuty, Melanie E.; Hansen, Jo-Ida C. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2013
The current study used work values components (WVC) to examine the relationship between work values, vocational interests, personality, and personal values. Most intercorrelations between work values and other constructs were in the small effect range. Overall correlations between scale scores provided evidence of convergent and discriminant…
Descriptors: Values, Vocational Interests, Personality, Validity
Evidence of Construct Validity for Work Values
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Leuty, Melanie E.; Hansen, Jo-Ida C. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2011
Despite the importance of work values in the process of career adjustment (Dawis, 2002), little empirical research has focused on articulating the domains represented within the construct of work values and the examination of evidence of validity for the construct has been limited. Furthermore, the larger number of work values measures has made it…
Descriptors: Evidence, Work Attitudes, Construct Validity, Validity
Stability of Scores on Super's Work Values Inventory-Revised
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Leuty, Melanie E. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2013
Test-retest data on Super's Work Values Inventory-Revised for a group of predominantly White ("N" = 995) women (mean age = 23.5 years, SD = 8.07) and men (mean age = 21.5 years, SD = 5.80) showed stability in mean-level scores over a period of 1 year for the sample as a whole. However, low raw score and rank order stability coefficients…
Descriptors: Robustness (Statistics), Scores, Individual Differences, Item Analysis
Super's Work Values Inventory-Revised Scale Validation for African Americans
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Hammond, Marie S.; Betz, Nancy E.; Multon, Karen D.; Irvin, Tawana – Journal of Career Assessment, 2010
The psychometric properties of Super's Work Values Inventory-Revised (SWVI-R) were examined in a sample of 213 African American college students. Results indicated that the 12-values scales were as reliable and as valid in a sample of African Americans as has been demonstrated within a predominantly White college student sample. Values of…
Descriptors: African American Students, Undergraduate Students, Work Attitudes, Attitude Measures
An Attempt to Predict Career Intentions of Business Administration Doctoral Students.
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St. John, Caron H.; And Others – Journal of Education for Business, 1989
A study of 119 doctoral students (of 223 surveyed) in the Georgia State University College of Business Administration determined that the Work Values Inventory is not an effective means for discriminating between doctoral students who are interested in academic careers and those who are not. Those students do not differ substantially in what they…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Career Choice, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students
A Predictive Model for Retention at a Community College Using Non-Intellectual Variables.
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Rowe, Fred A.; Smith, Nancy M. – College and University, 1990
The Work Values Inventory and Self-Directed Search were used to predict retention of students in office occupation majors at Utah Valley Community College. The predictive model distinguished among students either retained (graduated, on-track, and "jobbed-out") and noncompleters. Noncompletion was correctly predicted for about 73 percent…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dropouts, Higher Education, Models