The relationship of job values and desires to vocational aspirations of adolescents

Abstract

A group of (N=148) of male adolescents scoring in the upper quarter of the Level of Interest Section of the California Occupational Interest Inventory was compared with a low-quarter scoring group (N=64) on Center's Job Values and Desires Checklist; a similar comparison was made for high-quarter scoring female adolescents (N=137) and low-quarter scoring females (N=105). For the females, no significant differences were noted. For the males a significantly greater proportion of the high-quarter group than the low-quarter group wanted jobs permitting "self-expression," and a significantly higher proportion of the low-quarter group than the high-quarter groups selected the value of job "independence." (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)