VOCATIONAL ORIENTATIONS OF YOUNG WORKERS AND CRAFTSMEN

In a sample of 680 young workers and craftsmen the relations between v ocational orientations, values, and motives were researched. The follo wing patterns could be established: (a) career orientation was related to materialism, power motive, and achievement motive, (b) leisure ori entation was related to affiliation motive; and (c) social reformer or ientation was related to postmaterialism and the nurturance motive. Fo llowing action regulation theory vocational orientations are interpret ed as general agency motives.