Tamao Matsui, Takashi Kakuyama, Hiroshi Konishi, Yukie Tsuzuki, Mary-Lou Onglatco
Journal of Vocational Behavior, 54(3) 416-428, Jun, 1999 Peer-reviewed
This study examined whether perceived social pressure and externality moderated the relationship between instrumentality and career orientation for 295 Japanese college women. Perceived social pressure was operationalized as the perception of prevalence of traditional gender role attitudes among Japanese people. Neither perceived social pressure nor externality independently moderated the relationship. Perceived social pressure and externality combined interactively, however, to moderate the relationship
a significantly lower relationship between instrumentality and career orientation was noted for women high in both perceived social pressure and externality as compared to women low in one or both of these variables. © 1999 Academic Press.