Paul R. Salomone

Tracing Super's Theory of Vocational Development: A 40-Year Retrospective.

Paul R. Salomone is a professor in the Counseling and Human Services Program at Syracuse University. Appreciation is expressed to Mary T. Nicklaus for her considerable help with the literature review and preliminary tabular formulations, and to Barbara Pauley for her assistance with the preparation of this manuscript. Address correspondence to Paul R. Salomone, Ph.D., Syracuse University, 101 Westminster Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210-3001. In a short time span, from 1951 to 1963, six major vocational choice or vocational development theories were introduced into vocational

The influence of chance and contingency factors on the vocational choice process of nonprofessional workers

Abstract The present study investigated the perceived influence of chance and contingency factors on the career choices of nonprofessional workers. The sample was composed of 447 female workers and 470 male workers. As part of a larger study the workers listed the factors that had influenced their choice of their first job, their present job, and their most satisfying job. They were also asked to consider their entire work history and note events, people, or personal inclinations which influenced their vocational decisions. The workers then rated each of 27 chance or contingency factors concerning the extent of influence (great, some, none) on their career choices. The results are examined and discussed relative to the perceived importance of chance and contingency factors on the career choices of nonprofessional workers. The implications of the results for vocational theory and career counseling are considered.

Attraction to psychotherapy: influences of therapist status and therapist-patient age similarity.

Therapist-patient age similarity and therapist status were examined in relation to interpersonal attraction in the psychotherapy dyad. Psychiatric inpatients who comprised three age groupings were assigned randomly to one of four audiovisual treatments that depicted a dyadic psychotherapy situation (N = 60). For each treatment, therapist age and status were differentially presented on color slides with the same accompanying audiotape. Results indicated that age similarity was significantly (p less than .05) more relevant for the younger patients, whereas therapist status had greater significance for older patients. There were several significant interactions that concerned therapist-patient age similarity and therapist status effects on psychotherapeutic attraction. These results suggest that therapist-patient matching on age and/or therapist status should be considered carefully as a potential influence on therapeutic outcome.

Canonical correlation of vocational needs and vocational style

Abstract Definitions of vocational needs, values, orientations, and interests have suggested a substantial amount of overlap in these concepts. In the present study the canonical correlation procedure was used to determine the relationships between vocational needs and vocational styles. The vocational needs measure (MIQ) and the vocational style or orientation measure (VPI) were administered to 215 rehabilitation counselors employed in state agencies (DVR) and 118 rehabilitation facility counselors. For DVR counselors a single significant canonical correlation between sets of MIQ and VPI scales resulted. This underlying trait was described as a work attitude which placed importance on both an expressive, self-acceptance orientation and a need for autonomy and advancement opportunities. It was concluded that vocational needs and work style or orientation are probably independent facets of the work personality.