| Publication |
| Author(s) | Bray, D.W.; Howard, A. |
| Title | Career Succes and Life-Satisfactions of Middle Aged Managers. |
| Source | Bond, L.A.;Rosen, J.C.;Eds.: "Competence and Coping during Adulthood", University Press of New England, 1980, London, UK, 258 - 287 |
| Investigation |
| Public | 40+ aged, male managers, Bell Telephone Company, 1956-1976 |
| Last assesment | 1976 |
| | T1: 956, T2, T3, T4, T5; 1976 |
| Survey name | Not available |
| | In 1956 started longitudinal "Management Progress Study" (MPS) of Bell Company, redirected in 1976 as "MPS20" with remainder sample in further longitudinal study. |
| Sample | Non-probability purposive-quota sample |
| | New managers (N=422) from 6 Bell Companies, all expected to represent nearly all the persons to rise to middle management or higher in the years to come from 1) recent college graduated hired as management trainees 2) non-college employees risen from non-management jobs into management before age of 32, recruited at T1 (1956).
Survivors (N=266) reassessed for this study at T5 (1976). |
| Respondents N = | 422 |
| | T1: 422, T5 :266: |
| Non Response | panel loss a t T5: 37% |
| Assesment | Rating by experts |
| | Expert ratings based on various methods used in assesment center |
| General remarks | T1 : Assessment-center entry in groups spread over 4 year-period from 1956-1960;
T2: Annual interviews over period 1957-1963.
T3: Assessment-center entry in groups spread over 4 year-period from 1964-1968;
T4: triannual interviews over period 1965-1975;
T5: Assessment-center entry in groups spread over 4 year-period from 1976-1980;
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at T1: N=422.
at T5 : N=266:
BRAY 1980 reports first 80 subjects of T5-sample (N=80)
BRAY 1983 reports an analysis on the full T5-sample (N=266).
NB Part of the data reported in BRAY 1983 are summarized in this exerpt (BRAY 1980), with mention N=266. |
| Happiness measure(s) used |
| Author's label | Subject Code
Finding | Subject description |
| Ascendancy | P05ag | Assertive |
| Conservative | P05ar | Conservative |
| Creativity | C12ab01 | Test-creativeness |
| Drop in primacy of work | O01ad | Attitudes to one's occupation |
| Earlier ascendancy | P02ab04 | Earlier assertiveness |
| Earlier emotional stability | P02ab28 | Earlier stability |
| Earlier expectations inventory | W05aa01 | Earlier work-attitudes |
| Earlier mental ability _A | I03aa01 | Earlier intelligence |
| Earlier mental ability _B | I03aa01 | Earlier intelligence |
| Earlier selfconfidence | P02ab24 | Earlier self-confidence |
| Emotional stability/lack of nervousness | P05db | Stable |
| General information | X01 | UNCLASSIFIED |
| Mental ability_A | I03ab | Current general intelligence |
| Mental ability_B | I03ab | Current general intelligence |
| Need for heterosexuality_A | S03aa01 | Earlier sex-life |
| Need for heterosexuality_B | S03ac | Attitudes to one's sex-life |
| Need for heterosexuality_B | S03ab03 | Sexual preference, also classified as above ↑ |
| Need for peer approval | P05ah | Approval seeking |
| Need for superior approval | P05ah | Approval seeking |
| Planning and organization | P08ab02 | Planning ability |
| Range of interests | I05ab | Current interests |
| Self-confidence | P05cu | Self-confidant |
| Self-development | P05cr | Self-actualization (need for) |
| Selfishness | P05aw | Egoistic |
| Succorance | P05ah | Approval seeking |