Career Choice and Development

respectively to the four “real-world”-style variables described ear- lier. Over time, when much of P’s behavior becomes more sta ...

Personality Taken together, the structure and style variables may be used to pro- duce an overall description of P, which PEC th ...

self-monitoring) are all premised on self-disclosure, in principle. Although it may be possible, as mentioned earlier, to descri ...

requirement, but from the viewpoint of attention rather than need. Personality traits may be seen as a form of capability, but f ...

to mathematically identify a small set of dimensions (factors) that can be used to reconstitute each of a larger set of variable ...

These components, when found to occur commonly, are what PEC theorists mean by the term abilities. Ability measurement is more a ...

(and need scales) would be large, because the number of known reinforcers is large and growing. The situation with needs is the ...

ever, E’s response needs—tasks for P—have been studied much more than E’s reinforcer needs. Redressing this imbalance is an ur- ...

estimate P’s standing on such 10-point scales from other data (for example, biographical data, interest, and personality invento ...

(Dawis et al., 1987) illustrates how E measurement may be accom- plished according to PEC theory. (Note that PEC theory postulat ...

III. SN = f(sCv|aCr → max) Corollary IIIA.Knowledge of P’s satisfaction and E’s reinforcers permits inference of P’s values. III ...

Corollary VIIIB: P’s tenure in E is a function of the correspon_ dence of P’s structure with E’s structure. VIIIB. TE = f(pstCes ...

Corollary XIVA: Knowledge of P’s adjustment-mode probability associated with P’s satisfaction permits the determination of P’s f ...

spondence if P is unsatisfactory (that is, E is dissatisfied with P). Also, the more flexible P is, the easier it is for E to sa ...

even be definitive. Accessibility of training institutions, training time required, cost of training and availability of other i ...

that provides career counseling to nonstudent adults and for a Vocational Assessment Program that provides information in PEC- t ...

Most mean differences between groups are small, rarely exceeding one-half of a standard deviation, especially when the groups b ...

But even if two groups did differ in means by as much as one standard deviation, such a difference pales in comparison with the ...

characterization by a single trait. But humans have only stereotypes to go on in the absence of more information. Therefore, one ...

Intergenerational Validity The problem of intergenerational validity is similar in many re- spects to that of cultural validity. ...