PERSONALITY TYPES AND EARLY PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS AMONG NURSES: A TEST OF VOCATIONAL CHOICE THEORIES.
Contributors: Wayne State University.
Published: 1985
Number of pages: 145
Subjects: Education, Guidance and Counseling.
Description: The purpose of this study was to test both Holland's and Roe's theories of vocational choice using registered nurses. The subjects were 59 female and 14 male registered nurses pursuing a baccalaureate degree in nursing at Wayne State University. The Family Relations Inventory was used as a measure of recalled early parent-child relations. The Self-Directed Search was used to determine the subject's personality type. Additional hypotheses tested were: (1) whether Holland's theory and Roe's theory were consistent; (2) whether or not type of nursing was correlated with early parent-child relations and personality type; and (3) whether sex was correlated with early parent-child interaction and personality type.

Both Holland's and Roe's theories were found to be valid for the subjects in this study. A modification of Roe's diagram depicting the relationship between early parent-child relations and vocational choice was suggested based upon the findings in this study. The type of nursing in which the subjects worked was not correlated with personality type nor type of early parent-child interaction experienced by the subjects. Sex of the nurses was not correlated with type of early parent-child interaction experienced by the subjects.

Even though both Holland's theory and Roe's theory were found to be valid for the subjects in this study, there is no relationship between the theories to the extent that the theories are measured by the SDS and the FRI as only three of 36 r's were statistically significant. A future design that would possibly lead to a better disclosure of a relationship between the two theories is suggested.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-05, Section: A, page: 1196.

Thesis (PH.D.)--WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY, 1985.

School code: 0254.