Need for power and women's careers over 14 years: structural power, job satisfaction, and motive change.
Previous findings by D. G. Winter (1988) relating the need for Power to choice and attainment of power-relevant careers (teaching, including college; psychotherapy; journalism; and business management) were successfully replicated among 118 female collage seniors, 69 of whom returned mailed questionnaires 14 years later. High n Power women reported both more power-relevant job satisfaction and dissatisfaction; n Power predicted career progression only for women in power-relevant careers. Those women holding relational power jobs and those in structural power roles who reported higher overall job satisfaction increased in n Power over 14 years. Power-motivated women in different structural power roles reported contrasting satisfactions and career progression.
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Department of Psychology, University of North Texas, Denton 76203-3587.
D000328:Adult; D002322:Career Mobility; D003163:Competitive Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D009042:Motivation; D011209:Power, Psychological; D014931:Women, Working / Q000523:psychology*