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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
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
Analysis of a Modified Version of the Work Values Inventory for Grades 3 and 5 Compared to Grades 8 and 11.
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Mowsesian, Richard; Liberty, Paul G., Jr. – 1976
A modified version of Super's Work Values Inventory (WVI) was administered to third and fifth grade students in a medium-size industrial community. The original WVI was administered to 9th and 11th grade students in the same community. Internal consistency coefficients, construct validity and ordering of work values are reported by grade and sex.…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Work Values of Community College Students.
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Grace, Jane; Lee, Glenda E.
In order to determine if there are differences in the work values of two-year college students among various vocational/occupational majors, Super's Work Values Inventory was administered to 391 freshmen entering Middlesex Community College in the fall of 1973. Among the 127 males and 268 females surveyed, there were 178 liberal arts majors, 73…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Majors (Students), Motivation
Predicting Whether or Not Agricultural Education Graduates Will Teach. A Report of Research.
Cheek, Jimmy G.; And Others – 1983
A study examined screening measures that are used to predict whether a student will teach after graduation from an agricultural education program. The population for the study consisted of 72 student teachers studying in the Department of Agricultural Education at the University of South Florida from 1977 to 1982. Before starting student teaching,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agricultural Education, Career Choice, Demography