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Einarsdottir, Sif; Eyjolfsdottir, Katrin Osk; Rounds, James – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2013
The present investigation used an emic approach to develop a set of Icelandic indigenous basic interest scales. An indigenous item pool that is representative of the Icelandic labor market was administered to three samples (N = 1043, 1368, and 2218) of upper secondary and higher education students in two studies. A series of item level cluster and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interest Inventories, Vocational Interests, Test Construction
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Tay, Louis; Su, Rong; Rounds, James – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2011
We examined a longstanding assumption in vocational psychology that people-things and data-ideas are bipolar dimensions. Two minimal criteria for bipolarity were proposed and examined across 3 studies: (a) The correlation between opposite interest types should be negative; (b) after correcting for systematic responding, the correlation should be…
Descriptors: Vocational Interests, Industrial Psychology, Interest Inventories, Meta Analysis
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Tracey, Terence J. G. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2008
The present study examined the relation between individual cognitive structure and several key career decision variables. Specifically, in a sample of college students enrolled in a career development class, the usage of the RIASEC (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional) circumplex (adherence) was examined as…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Career Choice, Cognitive Structures, Career Development