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Psychological characteristics of the underachiever : a vocational approach
| dc.contributor.advisor | Hope, L. H. | |
| dc.creator | Gilhousen, Michael Richard | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-21T22:00:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-08-21T22:00:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1977 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-622125 | |
| dc.description | Vita. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This study investigated the ability of the Occupational Interest Inventory (OII) and Holland's constructs of congruence, consistency, and differentiation to predict the academic achievement of college freshmen. Subjects, selected on the basis of Scholastic Aptitude Test scores and obtained grade point averages, were 299 underachievers (211 male, 88 female) and 299 adequate achievers matched for sex, scholastic aptitude, and curriculum. Multiple regression analysis revealed that the OII accounted for little variance in achievement, but was able to discriminate between the two achievement groups. The constructs of congruence, consistency, and differentiation, singly and in all possible combinations, were unable to make such a discrimination. Results indicate that vocational characteristics are not important factors, in and of themselves, in the academic achievement of college students. ABSTRACT | en |
| dc.format.extent | viii, 76 leaves ; | en |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Underachievers | en |
| dc.subject | Major educational psychology | en |
| dc.subject.classification | 1977 Dissertation G473 | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Underachievers | en |
| dc.title | Psychological characteristics of the underachiever : a vocational approach | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Texas A&M University | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
| dc.type.genre | dissertations | en |
| dc.type.material | text | en |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
| dc.publisher.digital | Texas A&M University. Libraries | |
| dc.identifier.oclc | 3599755 |
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