SEX AND ACCULTURATION DIFFERENCES IN OCCUPATIONAL VALUES AMONG CHINESE-AMERICAN CHILDREN

A study of sex and acculturation differences in occupational values among a group of Chinese-American children (5th and 6th graders) found that money and task satisfaction were very important values, whereas object orientation and solitude were quite unimportant. The high-acculturation children valued self-realization more than the low-acculturation children. Some sex differences in occupational values were also found among this group of children: boys valued object orientation, self-realization, and ideas-data more than did girls, and girls valued altruism more than did boys. The counseling and research implications of the findings are discussed.