Values and Occupational Preferences of Junior High School Girls

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Abstract
196 7th and 8th grade girls and their parents were administered a value‐orientation (VO) instrument. Measures of fathers' occupational level, girls' intelligence, school achievement, number of indicated problems (Mooney), and both vocational and training aspiration levels were obtained. Parents and daughters agreed that a good income and a secure future were important, and that being helpful to others, working with things, and being free from supervision were unimportant. More‐intelligent, higher‐achieving girls with fewer problems wanted to pursue a vocational goal bringing intrinsic satisfaction and viewed higher education as incompatible with this goal. Conversely, less‐intelligent, low‐achieving girls were less concerned with self‐expression and aspired to educational goals which appeared unrealistic in light of their educational potential.

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