that a higher proportion of African Americans, Asian Americans,
and Hispanics felt that they needed assistance in finding informa-
tion about jobs than did white European Americans. Newly immi-
grated Hispanics and Asian Americans may need help finding
values-based information more often than their white counterparts
due to their English proficiency. It seems likely that any group with
limited proficiency with English will have limited amounts of occu-
pational information and that the information they have may not
be as accurate as that available to their counterparts who have
greater language skills.
Proposition 6
Occupational success will be related to job-related skills acquired in
formal and informal educational settings, job-related aptitudes and
skills, SES, participation in the work role, and the extent to which
discrimination is experienced, regardless of the social relationship
value held.
Proposition 6A. Because success in the occupational role requires
an awareness of future events and the ability to accommodate the
dynamic changes that occur in the workplace, success in the occu-
pational role will be related to time and activity values with indi-
viduals who have future or past-future paired with a doing activity
value being the most successful, those with a present time value and
being activity value second most successful, and those with a circu-
lar time value and a being-in-becoming activity value being least
successful.
The roles of scholastic aptitude (Melamed, 1996), family SES (Blau
& Duncan, 1967), and discrimination (Leong & Serifca, 1995;
Melamed, 1995, 1996) have been presented elsewhere and will not
be discussed here. However, research has shown that the extent to
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