Risk Taking and Vocational or Curriculum Choice

Slakter, Malcolm J.; Cramer, Stanley H.

doi:10.1002/j.2164-585x.1969.tb00220.x

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“…Using the Spearman-Brown Prophecy formula, a set of 33 nonsense items should yield reliability of .86 for C4, which is comparable to the reliabilities of the other scores obtained in the study. A reliability of .87 for R, which is also based on the seven nonsense items is consistent with previous research on this risk measure (e.g., Slakter, 1969;Slakter & Cramer, 1969;Slakter & Koehler, 1968). Note that the mean of the C4 confidence measure is quite low (i.e., only 0.70 when the maximum possible C4 is 7.00).…”

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confidence: 87%

Overconfidence on Probabilistic Tests

Koehler¹

1974

J Educational Measurement

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A potentially valuable measure of overconfidence on confidence response multiple‐choice tests was evaluated. The measure of overconfidence was based on probabilistic responses to seven nonsense items embedded in a 33 item vocabulary test. The test was administered under both confidence response and conventional choice response directions to 208 undergraduate educational psychology students. Measures of vocabulary knowledge based on confidence and choice responses, overconfidence, and risk‐taking propensity were obtained. The results indicated that overconfidence was significantly related in a negative direction to confidence response vocabulary scores and essentially unrelated to choice response vocabulary scores. A moderate correlation was found between overconfidence and risk‐taking propensity. However, the scatter plot for these measures showed that this relationship may have been spurious.

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Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 87%

Overconfidence on Probabilistic Tests

Koehler¹

1974

J Educational Measurement

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“…First, it seems reasonable to conclude that risk taking defined in several ways does not relate to vocational choice. This interpretation is consistent with the results reported by both Stone (1962) and Slakter and Cramer (1969), although in the latter study the differences in risk scores among several occupational groups approached significance. Contrary evidence has been offered by Ziller (1957), but the methodological flaws in his design make the results difficult to interpret.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Thus, a potential for personal gain or loss was contingent upon the subjects' risk-taking behaviors on the test. Stone (1962) and Slakter and Cramer (1969), on the other hand, did-not introduce this type of contingency into their studies. This methodological difference among the studies may have been responsible for the failure of Stone (1962) and Slakter and Cramer (1969) to replicate Ziller's earlier results.…”

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Risk taking and vocational choice: A reevaluation.

Davidshofer¹

1976

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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Tested whether Ss preferring high levels of risk tend to choose high-risk occupations more often than low-risk occupations when asked to choose between them. Three separate risk-taking measures were used to divide 96 college freshmen and sophomores into high and low risk takers. Degree of occupational risk was defined by having Ss rate occupational titles according to perceived vocational success and probable income. Three Type III analyses of variance, one for each risk-taking measure, were carried out on the number of high-risk occupations chosen. Results show that risk-taking preferences were not significantly related to Ss' vocational choices on the selection tasks. Subsequent analyses compared the risk preferences of vocationally decided and undecided Ss, but no significant differences were found. The relationship of findings to previous research is discussed. (15 ref)

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“…This research, however, has been less directly pursued than have the individual factors that seem to affect the process. The relationship between risk-taking tendencies and the amount of risk involved in selecting alternatives received early attention and has continued to be considered as an important variable (Knefelkamp & Slepitza, 1976;Slakter & Cramer, 1969).…”

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confidence: 99%