This study was designed to examine the validity and test-retest reliability of Holland's Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) for 61 adult women. The VPI was administered at the beginning of a group guidance program and the preference for Holland's six personality styles - intellectual, conventional, enterprising, realistic, social, artistic - were correlated with selected scales on four criterion tests. The results revealed statistically significant correlations supporting the validity of Holland's VPI for use with adult women. The social and the artistic scales of the VPI remained in doubt as to their validity for this sample. This sample seemed to gravitate to the conventional occupations, and these women tended to reject the nurturant role. (Author)