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Predicting Length of Stay in the Job Corps
Author(s) -
PEER GARY G.
Publication year - 1976
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.2161-1920.1976.tb00623.x
Subject(s) - psychology , paragraph , psychosocial , discriminant function analysis , meaning (existential) , population , test (biology) , variables , predictive validity , social psychology , set (abstract data type) , applied psychology , statistics , clinical psychology , demography , mathematics , computer science , paleontology , psychiatry , sociology , world wide web , psychotherapist , biology , programming language
This study attempted to isolate psychosocial variables having predictive value regarding enrollee length of stay in a Job Corps training center. Correlation and multiple discriminant‐function analyses were emphasized to test relationships between seven psychosocial variables and the dependent variable, length of stay. Results demonstrated that the Stanford Achievement Test's paragraph‐meaning subtest was a significant predictor to the dependent measure and that the combination of paragraph meaning and the manifest‐aggression subscale from the Jesness inventory formed the strongest set of multiple predictor variables. Conclusions beyond those applicable to the population studied were limited; however, I encourage Job Corps personnel to consider these findings as potential guidance tools and as stimuli for similar study in other Job Corps settings.