Study Palmore & Luikart (1972): study US 1968
- Public
- 46+ aged, whites, North Carolina, USA, 1968-70
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 502
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
One whole-day interviews, tests and examinations.
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Career anchorage
- Our Classification
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- Distribution
- M= 2 SD= 1.2
- Operationalization
- 6-item index of forced choice statements measuring whether a person tends to evaluate success in terms of how far a person has come (downward anchorage) or in terms of how far a person has to go before he reaches the top of his career (upward anchorage). (Career-Anchorage Scale; see Tausky & Dubin, 1965).
0 = downward answer
1= upward answer
Scale 0 - 6