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Direct linkBullock, Emily E.; Reardon, Robert C. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2008
The study used the Self-Directed Search (SDS) and the NEO-FFI to explore profile elevation, four secondary constructs, and the Big Five personality factors in a sample of college students in a career course. Regression model results showed that openness, conscientiousness, differentiation high-low, differentiation Iachan, and consistency accounted…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, College Students, Predictor Variables, Personality
Peer reviewedNafziger, Dean H.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1975
Hypotheses about person-environment congruency, consistency, and differentiation from Holland's theory of careers were tested. Subjects were students who had been given the Self-Directed Search before their freshman year followed by a questionnaire one or three years later. Results support Holland's congruency hypothesis but not the…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Emotional Adjustment, Individual Characteristics
Peer reviewedGottfredson, Gary D.; Holland, John L. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1975
Several Predictors of occupational choice derived from a theory of careers were examined. Hypotheses that a person's competencies, activities, self-estimates, interests, and vocational choices can be organized to understand and predict subsequent choice were tested. Findings support both the theory and the validity of the Self-Directed Search.…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Interest Inventories
Peer reviewedTouchton, Judith Gray; Magoon, Thomas M. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1977
Increase in predictability of vocational plans of college women (N=152) was sought by using variables from Holland's Self-Directed Search (SDS). The most recent daydream and summary of daydream codes were the best single predictors of academic major. The most recent daydream was the best single predictor of vocational plans. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Planning, College Students, Females
Download full textEells, Gregory T.; Romans, John S. C. – 1994
A study examined the extent to which sex role identity and career indecision could be used as predictors of individuals' congruence with their environment. Holland's Self-Directed Search, the Bem Sex Role Inventory, and the Career Decision Scale were administered to 84 male and 42 female undergraduates who had declared Animal Science majors at a…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Agricultural Education, Animal Husbandry, Career Choice
