The Effect of Occupational Experience on the Use of Relatives and Friends as Sources of Information on Occupational Choice

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N.N. Foote , "Identification as a Basis for a Theory of Motivation", ibid., 16, 1951, 14-22.

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Haas et al., loc. cit.

J. Samler , "Psycho-Social Aspects of Work: A. Critique of Occupational Information ", Personnel and Guidance Journal, 34, 1961, 458-65.

Kibrick and Tiedeman, loc. cit.; Orzack, loc. cit.; and Haas et al., loc. cit.

The writer wishes to acknowledge the assistance of Mr R. Moore, Department of Administrative Studies, Western Australian Institute of Technology, who wrote the computer programme for the data analysis.

The term "significantly" is used here to indicate a value of p = 0.05 or better on the chi square test.