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Parental Behavior and Vocational Choice: A Comparison of Counselors and Engineers
Author(s) -
WITTMER JOE,
JEFFERS MARLIN SCHMIDT,
PERSONS WILLIAM E.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
journal of employment counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2161-1920
pISSN - 0022-0787
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1920.1974.tb00324.x
Subject(s) - vocational education , psychology , socialization , test (biology) , social psychology , developmental psychology , pedagogy , paleontology , biology
This study compared the perceived parental behavior characteristics of 41 counselors in training and 33 fifth‐year engineering students in a test of a part of Roe's vocational choice theory, which suggests dichotomous pattern of vocational choice: “toward persons” (e.g., counseling) or “toward nonpersons” (e.g., engineering) categories that will have been determined by the nature of the early childhood socialization process. In essence, a person who has experienced a warm loving home situation is more likely to enter a “toward persons” occupation and an individual whose parent‐child relationship was emotionally cold will most likely gravitate toward a “toward nonpersons” occupation. Both groups were administered the Parent‐Child Relations Questionnaire developed by Roe and Siegelman. The findings lend considerable support to Roe's theory.