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Quality of Information and Availability of Social Indices 1
Author(s) -
Mullet Etienne,
Neto Felix
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1991.tb00502.x
Subject(s) - dimension (graph theory) , preference , quality (philosophy) , psychology , set (abstract data type) , social psychology , statistics , mathematics , computer science , combinatorics , philosophy , epistemology , programming language
Quality of 14‐to 16‐year‐olds information about occupations was studied. The results show that in general, the degree of correspondence between adolescents and experts was not extremely high (70%); similarly, no major differences were associated with gender, SES, or habitat (rural vs. urban). The quality of information adolescents have at their disposal as concerns a dimension such as Income or Contacts for example depends to a greater extent on the richness of the set of social indices for the dimension than to the importance this dimension can take on in determining occupational preference.