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Item A study of the general experience, employment, and careers pursued by Marketing Department graduates during the period of 1951-1961, inclusive(Texas Tech University, 1963-08) Turner, Alan DoyleNot availableItem Career decision making: the contribution of information, values, and decision training to effective choice(Texas Tech University, 1984-08) Sauer, Gordon ChenowethNot availableItem Career exploration: an examination of the combined effects of multiple predictors(Texas Tech University, 1998-05) Bartley, Denise F.Career exploration is defined as the self appraisal and external search activities that provide a person with information fostering the selection of, entry into, and the adjustment to an occupation. The present study addressed the process of career exploration during late adolescence. Factors associated with this process in the literature included career decision-making self-efficacy, motivational processes (viz., autonomy orientation, control orientation, and impersonal orientation), goal directedness, vocational decision making style (thinking-feeling and introversionextroversion), personal growth initiative, ego identity (viz., foreclosure, moratorium, diffusion, and identity achievement), exploration beliefs (viz., external search instrumentality and importance of obtaining preferred position), and contextual anxiety (viz., decisional stress and explorational stress). These factors, however, have accounted for only a modest amount of the variance in the career exploration (viz., environmental exploration and self-exploration) process, suggesting the need for further investigation. The main purpose of this study was to assess the relative contribution of the preceding factors to the career exploration process when all were considered together. It was, therefore, hypothesized that for both men and women each factor would account for a significant, unique portion of the variance of career exploration scores when all factors were considered together. The sample for this study consisted of 156 women and 162 men enrolled in an introductory psychology course at a large Southwestern university. A series of forward and simultaneous regression analyses indicated that scores for vocational decision making style: thinking-feeling and for personal growth initiative accounted for 23% of the variance in environmental exploration for women. For men, scores on career decision-making self-efficacy, explorational stress, and external search instrumentality accounted for 28% of the variance in environmental exploration. Concomitantly, 21% of the variance in se If-exploration for women was accounted for by scores on the following factors: vocational decision making style: thinking-feeling; foreclosure; identity achievement; explorational stress; and goal directedness. For men, 33% of the variance in se If-exploration was accounted for by scores on the following factors: vocational decision making style: thinking-feeling; moratorium; diffusion; career decision-making self-efficacy; goal directedness; and explorational stress. These findings suggest that a few constructs predict career exploration as well as many constructs and that men and women should be considered separately. Suggestions for future research and practice are discussed.Item Expenditure patterns within an occupational group: teachers and non-teachers(Texas Tech University, 2004-05) Salim, Juma KNumerous studies of expenditure patterns have been conducted over aggregated occupational categories. However, there are few studies that specifically compare and contrast expenditure patterns among industry groups within an occupational field. This research examined the hypothesis that teachers' expenditure patterns were lower than administrators/managers and professionals who are grouped together in the manager/professional occupational field by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). It was also hypothesized that there were statistically significant differences in expenditure patterns within each industry group while controlling for some socio-demographic factors and consumer life cycle variables. The sample size of 3,976 was drawn from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) interview tapes for the years 1995 through 2001. It consisted of 611 teachers, 1,353 administrators/managers, and 2,012 professionals. Multivariate Tobit analysis was used to examine statistical relationships related to expenditures for each of the groups of interest. Fourteen consumption categories (food at home, food away from home, alcoholic beverages, housing, apparel and services, transportation, health care, entertainment, personal care, reading materials, education, miscellaneous expenditures, cash contributions, and personal insurance and pensions) were treated as dependent variables and regressed against total expenditure (as a proxy for income), life cycle variables, region of residence, race/ethnicity, occupation, gender, and education of the reference persons. The descriptive analysis of the expenditure patterns illustrated that differences existed among administrators/managers, teachers, and professionals with respect to their distributions of expenditures. Findings indicated not only how industry group membership influences spending over the life cycle, but also ways in which consumer units make substitutions in consumption to meet their needs. The average total expenditures by teachers were lower by 15.3% and 16.5% than those of professionals and administrators/managers respectively. The total expenditure (as a proxy for income) was a driving force in determining the level of expense for all expenditure categories investigated. Occupation was shown to have significant effects for most items also. Various life cycle stages and other socio-demographic factors such as region of residence, race of the reference person, educational attainment, occupational group, and sex of the reference person were all found to be significant determinants of the pattern of expenditures within each occupational group. Statistically significant differences in spending patterns among teacher, professional, and administrator/manager consumer units were found for nine out of fourteen expenditure categories after controlling for socio-demographic factors. The findings have important implications for various agencies of the government at the federal, state and local levels, and for the business sector as well. They can facilitate development of a useful public policy and programs by government or community agencies that may help in reducing the recruitment and retention problems facing the education sector in the U.S. Businesses can use the results of this study as a guide for market segmentation in the potential areas.Item Identification and comparison of intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfiers for men and women in traditional and nontraditional occupations(Texas Tech University, 1984-05) Campbell, Betty L KimeNot availableItem Opportunities of Local Occupations Entered by Lubbock High School Graduates(Texas Tech University, 1941-08) Sides, W. A.Not Available.Item Origins of labor market changes in the transition to an information economy : wage structure, employment, and occupation transformation in Taiwan after 1990(2009-05) Wang, Wei-ching; Sinha, Nikhil; Straubhaar, Joseph D.Labor market change in societies where an information economy is evolving, is a central area of concern for information society scholars today. While there has been considerable research conducted on cases of developed countries, research on labor market changes during a transition to an information economy outside of the advanced industrial economies is scarce. Thus, this dissertation proposes to examine the changes in wage, employment, and occupation structure that take place when an NIC, such as Taiwan, ushers in an information economy, and to explore the reasons behind these changes. This dissertation combined the historical, policy, and statistical analyses and concluded that the transformation from labor intensive manufacturing to an information intensive economy, as arranged by the Taiwanese government due to its own political and governing purposes, and also in the context of international political and economic circumstances, determined Taiwan’s economic resource arrangement, which resulted in an increasingly unbalanced labor market in terms of wage distribution, unemployment, and occupation structure. This transformation changed and shaped the structure of the labor market to benefit workers more skilled with information, more professional, having higher level knowledge and a higher level of education, while an increasing amount of white-collar and service workers began earning comparatively low wages. At the same time the demand for blue-collar and lower skill workers severely declined. Moreover, the total labor demand of information manufacturing and information intensive service is much less than that of traditional labor intensive manufacturing, resulting in Taiwan’s increasing unemployment problem. Among these processes, many different social, political, policy, and economic factors interacted and collectively determined this result. Among them, the role of the state in shaping Taiwan’s information economy in general and the labor market situation in particular did matter considerably.Item Parental influence on black student career aspirations(Texas Tech University, 1971-05) Crone, Korman TimothyNot availableItem School's Out : a comparative study of workplace sexuality through the experiences of gay and lesbian teachers in California and Texas(2010-05) Connell, Catherine Elizabeth; Williams, Christine L., 1959-; Gonzalez-Lopez, Gloria; Young, Michael; Carrington, Ben; Cloud, DanaThis dissertation investigates the workplace experiences of gay and lesbian teachers. In-depth interviews and field observations were conducted with 51 teachers in Texas and in California, two states with different legal approaches to gay rights and worker rights. This comparative study highlights the importance of social, political, and cultural context in individual decision-making about sexual disclosure and performance, explores the consequences of "normalization" of LGBT experiences in the classroom, and addresses the role of identity politics in social change. By taking an intersectional approach to gay/lesbian identity construction, this dissertation considers how race, class, gender, and sexuality inequalities are expressed and reinforced in the experiences of gay and lesbian teachers.Item Some Factors Affecting Occupational Choices of Pupils Studying Vocational Agriculture(Texas Tech University, 1941-08) Bertrand, J. RNot Available.Item Subtypes of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults and Associated Differences in Vocational Personality Types(2013-01-17) Zavala, Alejandro; Silver, Cheryl, Ph.D.BACKGROUND: Research continues to grow in the field of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The focus on adult ADHD has increased in the last decade and exploration of topics such as vocational outcome have become imperative. Research indicates that individuals with ADHD show similar personality traits, but some traits may differ across subtypes of ADHD. Using the Holland vocational personality theory, this study aimed to examine differences in vocationally-related personality traits between subtypes of ADHD. The purpose of this study is to increase understanding of the role of personality in ADHD, as well as its application in the vocational area. SUBJECTS: Records of 57 adults with a diagnosis of ADHD, either Inattentive or Combined subtype, were reviewed. All individuals had undergone a vocational evaluation. METHOD: Results from the Self-Directed Search were obtained and analyzed. RESULTS: Counter to predictions, the Artistic vocational type was found more frequently in the ADHD Inattentive subtype. No other significant differences between ADHD subtypes were revealed for other specific vocational types. Again, counter to predictions, stronger evidence of traits related to the Social vocational type compared with the other vocational types was found in both subtypes of ADHD. DISCUSSION: Individuals with ADHD may have certain vocational personality traits in common, including a preference for activities involving cooperation and social support, but individuals with the Inattentive subtype are more likely than those with the Combined subtype to prefer activities where they can be independent and creative. More research is needed to expand these findings.Item The effect of thematic organization upon the long term recall of occupational information(Texas Tech University, 1982-08) Bihm, Elson MNot available