The career aspirations of 86 fourth grade students were compared with their scores on a locus of control measure. Of the 45 externally scoring students, 60% either had no career aspiration or a fantasy career aspiration. Of the 41 internally scoring students, 93% had realistic career aspirations. Strongly sex-stereotyped career aspirations were equally divided between the two groups.
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Trice et al. (1990) studied this question.