The purpose of this study was to determine if four groups of engineering students differing in academic success and persistence could be discriminated on the basis of personality characteristics. Two personality dimensions discriminated: one dimension was described in terms of other-directed characteristics; the other in terms of self-directed…

Identifies the dimensions of vocational interests in the Ohio Vocational Interest Survey (OVIS) among adjudicated male delinquents. A random sample of 301 male delinquents were administered the OVIS. The results lend support for the use of the cubistic model and the OVIS with delinquents. (Author)

Investigated student perceptions of occupational congruency using Holland's realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional personality and environment types. Four levels of person-environment congruency were established from the hexagonal ordering of the types. Student perceptions of congruent activities, values,…