TRADITIONALITY AND CONGRUENCE OF CAREER ASPIRATIONS FOR COLLEGE-WOMEN

The main concern of this study was to investigate differences between traditional-nontraditional and congruent-incongruent career aspirations of college women using the Vocational Preference Inventory, the Feminist Attitudes Inventory, the Desire to Work Scale, and the Study of Values. The inventories were administered to 101 female junior and senior college students. Traditionality of choice was determined using the relative proportions of women and men in a given occupation. Congruence of career aspiration was defined using the Vocational Preference Inventory. The findings showed that the feminist attitudes and the infrequency scale differentiated the incongruent traditional and nontraditional groups. The nontraditional incongruent aspiring women tend to report more confidence in their abilities and personality than the traditional incongruent aspiring women. © 1979.