Internal/external occupational status congruence and life/job satisfaction of southern low-income young adults
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- M. Cynthia Farris (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Sarah M. Shoffner
Abstract: The present study investigated the relationship between occupational status congruence among Southern low-income young adults and their perceptions of their current lives and jobs. Occupational status congruence was investigated from two perspectives, internal occupational status congruence (consistency between the occupational aspirations and expectations of subjects) and external occupational congruence (consonance between subjects' own occupational status and their ascribed occupational status). Subjects for the study consisted of 524 young adults, aged 21-22, from whom completed questionnaires were obtained during the third phase of data collection of the Southern Regional Research Project S-126. A two-way analysis of covariance, with race and sex as covariates, was used to test for differences in life satisfaction scores between groups who were internally congruent and internally incongruent, and between groups who were externally congruent and externally congruent. An identical procedure was used to test for differences in levels of job satisfaction. A final two—way multiple analysis of covariance was used to assess multiple and overlapping effects of internal occupational congruence and internal occupational incongruence, and external occupational congruence and external occupational incongruence on life and job satisfaction taken together.
Internal/external occupational status congruence and life/job satisfaction of southern low-income young adults
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 1984
- Subjects
- Young adults $x Employment
- Young adults $x Attitudes