Dimensionality of women's career orientation

Marshall, Sandra J.; Wijting, Jan P.

doi:10.1007/bf00287918

Cited by 13 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 20 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…However, there is also some empirical evidence that these constructs are distinct. A study of women's career orientations by Marshall & Witjing (1982) illustrated the independence of the commitment and salience constructs. In testing a number of established career orientation scales together (including Greenhaus' (1971) Importance of Work subscale) and then factor analysing the results, they found two central factors to exist.…”

Section: Concept Redundancymentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualising And Operationalising Work Versus Career Salience

Allen

Ortlepp

2002

SA j ind psychol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Career salience was defined and operationalised by Greenhaus in 1971. His scale and conceptualisation of this construct have attracted critical review. Numerous authors have tested various alternative conceptualisations of career salience. However, these approaches have tended to neglect some of the valuable ideas in Greenhaus’ original construct. The present authors suggest that career salience constructs and measures have also been contaminated with an associated but unrecognised construct, namely, work salience. In this study, new work and career salience scales were developed and validated on a sample of 1078 office workers. The data supported the independent definition and measurement of work salience. Opsomming Loopbaanmarkantheid is in 1971 deur Greenhaus gedefinieer en geoperationaliseer. Sy skaal en konseptualisering van hierdie konstruk het kritiese kommentaar ontlok. Menige skrywers het verskeie alternatiewe konseptualiserings van loopbaanmarkantheid getoets. Hierdie benaderings is egter geneig om sommige van die waardevolle idees van Greenhaus se oorspronklike konstruk te verwaarloos. Die teenswoordige outeurs suggereer dat loopbaanmarkantheidkonstrukte en -maatstawe deur ‘n geassosieerde en minder, bekende konstruk, naamlik werkmarkantheid gekontamineer word. In hierdie studie is nuwe werk- en loopbaanmarkantheidskale ontwikkel en gevalideer op ‘n steekproef van 1078 kantoorwerkers. Die data ondersteun die onafhanklike definisie en meting van werkmarkantheid.

show abstract

Section: Concept Redundancymentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualising And Operationalising Work Versus Career Salience

Allen

Ortlepp

2002

SA j ind psychol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…relative to other sources of life satisfaction, such as family and leisure (Marshall & Wijting, 1982). While most researchers have conceptualized career orientation as a unidimensional construct, others argue for its multidimensionality.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Longitudinal Application of the Theory of Reasoned Action to Women's Career Behavior¹

Vincent

Peplau

Hill

1998

J Applied Social Pyschol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Based on the theory of reasoned action (TRA; Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975), we hypothesized that young women's career intentions would be predicted by their genderrole attitudes and perceptions of their boyfriends' and parents' career-related preferences for them. Career intention was expected to predict future career behavior. The model was tested using longitudinal data from 105 women studied in 1973 and followed up 14 years later in 1987. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results supported the TRA: women's gender-role attitudes and their perceptions of important others' preferences predicted their career intentions, which predicted career behavior 14 years later. Implications for the study of women's careers and the longitudinal application of the TRA are discussed.In the 1970s and early 1980s, researchers began to examine the nature of women's career development. Traditional societal norms had dictated an emphasis on marriage and child rearing for young women, but new changes in social attitudes broadened women's role options. Researchers began to find enormous variability in young women's career motivation (Almquist & Angrist, 197 1). Why, researchers asked, were some young women more strongly motivated to pursue a career than were others? Why were some young women less interested in a career and more interested in getting married and raising children?Career orientation has often been defined as the centrality of a career in a person's life (Illfelder, 1980) or as the importance a person attaches to a career, 'This study was submitted by the senior author in partial fulfillment ofthe requirements for the degree of

show abstract

“…Given the conceptual and measurement overlap of Greenhaus' (1971Greenhaus' ( , 1973 and Marshall & Wijting's (1982) scales with other work commitment concepts, an alternative conceptualization and operationalization of career commitment needs to be developed. Research on concepts related to career commitment, such as professional commitment, occupational commitment and career orientation, suggests both a conceptual definition of career commitment and a way to operationalize the definition.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

The measurement and prediction of career commitment

Blau

1985

Journal of Occupational Psychology

767

539

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Using a sample of 119 registered nurses from a large urban hospital, this longitudinal study investigated the nomological network of career commitment by: (a) determining if a distinct measure of career commitment could be operationalized, and (b) examining whether such a measure showed a different relationship to withdrawal cognition scales than measures of other work commitment concepts. The study also tested the importance of situational and individual difference variables in predicting career commitment.

show abstract

Dimensionality of women's career orientation

Cited by 13 publications

References 20 publications

Conceptualising And Operationalising Work Versus Career Salience

Conceptualising And Operationalising Work Versus Career Salience

A Longitudinal Application of the Theory of Reasoned Action to Women's Career Behavior¹

The measurement and prediction of career commitment

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About

Dimensionality of women's career orientation

Cited by 13 publications

References 20 publications

Conceptualising And Operationalising Work Versus Career Salience

Conceptualising And Operationalising Work Versus Career Salience

A Longitudinal Application of the Theory of Reasoned Action to Women's Career Behavior1

The measurement and prediction of career commitment

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About

A Longitudinal Application of the Theory of Reasoned Action to Women's Career Behavior¹