determinant of occupational choice. A personal data form, the Ca-
reer Decisions Report, the six General Occupational Theme scales,
and twelve selected occupational scales from the Strong-Campbell
Interest Inventory, the values section of SIGI, and the Occupations
Values Rating were used to collect data from seventy-two college
freshmen women at the University of Iowa. Judges were used to
identify expressed work values that surfaced in the written responses
to the Career Decision Report; the Occupations Values Ratings was
used to ascertain the importance of working in an occupation that
offered them an opportunity to satisfy their values.
Among Jepsen’s findings were
- SIGI value weights were for the most part unrelated to the
interest measures. - SIGI value weights were not associated with Holland types in
the manner Holland (1997) theorized. - Students in the study seemed to rank occupations using both
interests and values. - Students in the study almost universally included their work
values in their discussions of the occupations they had ranked
first or second.
Jepsen concluded that work values seem to function as hypoth-
esized in an earlier version of this theory (Brown & Crace, 1996a),
which, it should be added, pertained to people with an individual-
ism social value.
Recommendations for Research
Several suggestions for needed research have been advanced through-
out this article, and they will not be reiterated at this time. How-
ever, one general recommendation should be noted. The role of
cultural values in occupational choice, occupational satisfaction,
and occupational success is relatively unexplored. Future research
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