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Career Development Attributes and Occupational Values of Asian American and White American College Students
Author(s) -
Leong Frederick T. L.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.1991.tb00394.x
Subject(s) - white (mutation) , maturity (psychological) , vocational education , psychology , career development , career counseling , identity (music) , value (mathematics) , scale (ratio) , social psychology , asian americans , applied psychology , developmental psychology , pedagogy , ethnic group , political science , law , geography , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , cartography , machine learning , computer science , acoustics , gene
This study examined differences in career development attributes and occupational values between Asian American and White American college students using (a) the Crites' (1978) Career Maturity Inventory; (b) Harren's (1978) Assessment of Career Decision Making: Styles Subscales; (c) Holland, Daiger, and Power's (1980) My Vocational Situation; and (d) Rosenberg's (1957) Occupations and Values Scale. Asian Americans were found to have greater preferences for Dependent decisionmaking styles and also a lower level of career maturity. No differences in vocational identity were found between the cultural groups. Asian Americans also placed greater emphasis on extrinsic and security occupational value clusters (e.g., making more money, having a stable, secure future) relative to White Americans. The counseling and research implications of the results are discussed.