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The Flip Side of Holland Type Congruence: Incongruence and Job Satisfaction
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Dik, Bryan J.; Strife, Samantha Roberts; Hansen, Jo-Ida C. – Career Development Quarterly, 2010
This study examined the relationship between Holland type (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional; Holland, 1959, 1997) congruence and incongruence (i.e., lack of ft between an occupation's 3-letter Holland code and a person's lowest 3 Holland interest types) and tested whether incongruence predicts unique…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Vocational Interests, Career Choice, Congruence (Psychology)
Quantifying and Interpreting Group Differences in Interest Profiles
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Armstrong, Patrick Ian; Fouad, Nadya A.; Rounds, James; Hubert, Lawrence – Journal of Career Assessment, 2010
Research on group differences in interests has often focused on structural hypotheses and mean-score differences in Holland's (1997) theory, with comparatively little research on basic interest measures. Group differences in interest profiles were examined using statistical methods for matching individuals with occupations, the C-index, Q…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Careers, Ethnic Groups, Interest Inventories
Rehabilitation Counselor Work Environment: Examining Congruence with Prototypic Work Personality
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Zanskas, Stephen; Strohmer, Douglas C. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 2010
The profession of rehabilitation counseling has undergone extensive empirical study. Absent from this research has been a theoretical basis for describing and understanding the profession and its associated work environment. The focus of this study was to further our understanding of the nature of the rehabilitation counselor's work environment…
Descriptors: Interest Inventories, Rehabilitation Counseling, Work Environment, Counselors
Structure of Interests in Employed Male and Female Members of U.S. Racial-Ethnic Minority and Nonminority Groups.
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Fouad, Nadya A.; Harmon, Lenore W.; Borgen, Fred H. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1997
Explores the structure of interests across samples of employed U.S. racial-ethnic minority and nonminority adults drawn from over 38,000 individuals who participated in the 1994 revision of the Strong Interest Inventory (SII). Results suggest that the SII can be used to assess the interests of those from different racial-ethnic groups. (RJM)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Careers, Comparative Testing, Cultural Context