We present the PreferenSort, a career counseling instrument that derives counselees' vocational interests from their preferences among occupational titles. The PreferenSort allows for a holistic decision process, while taking into account the full complexity of occupations and encouraging deliberation about one's preferences and acceptable…

Examined interpretations of 100 career counselee's responses to Self-Directed Search (SDS). Found that agreement between scales identified as relevant was as high as agreement among counselors, insignificant correlations between counselors' judgments of counselee's degree of interest crystallization and Holland's (1985) measure of consistency, and…

Confirms Holland's congruence hypothesis within the context of interoccupational differences. The higher the engineer's preference for the job function which dominates his present job, the higher his job satisfaction. The present inventory describes best fit between engineer and job in different career development stages. (Author/JAC)

Forty-eight Israelis who had completed a leisure activities inventory in high school completed an inventory of adult accomplishments 18 years later. For 38.6% of the subjects, adolescent leisure activities were related to adult occupation. (SK)

Used Holland's congruency, consistency, and differentiation terms to predict job satisfaction within a single occupation. Based on the responses of 126 registered nurses, the congruence hypothesis was confirmed. Consistency and differentiation hypotheses were partially supported. The additive relationship among congruence, consistency, and…

Investigated relationship between vocational interests and location of an ideal occupation in the perceived occupational structure of career counselees. Career counselees (N=96) completed the RAMAK vocational interest inventory. Intrasubject analyses indicated the preferences for occupational fields as measured by the interest inventory reflected…

Compared perceived structure of occupations derived from judgmental data and behavioral data from 277 users of a computerized occupational information and guidance system. Structures derived from judgmental and behavioral data were found similar. Hierarchical and circular models of comparison are presented. (Author/KS)

Presents a formal procedure to interpret interest inventory score profiles. Compared its interpretation of the interests of 100 high school seniors and 50 young adults with the interpretations of 5 career counselors. The average agreement between the formal procedure and the counselors was almost as high as the agreement among the career…

Examined the relationships between students' level of consistency in choosing a major in college and their persistence, stability, and achievement in a five-year follow-up. It was found that consistent students tend to persist in college, not to change majors, and that they have higher achievement than inconsistent students. (Author)

Israeli ninth-grade students (N=217) answered two interest inventories, one based on Holland's classification and one on Roe's classification. By means of a Smallest Space Analysis (SSA-I), a two-dimensional configuration was found. The findings indicate the possibility of incorporating results based on either classification. Some practical…