Comparisons made in errors of classifications, percentage of overlapping, correlation of identical scales scored by both scoring procedures, intercorrelations of scales, and the ranking of scale scores within each subject showed that the two scoring systems produced different interest scores. (Author)

Factors were rotated to simple structure by the Kaiser Varimax procedure. Seven factors resulted, accounting for 83.5 percent of the total variance. The factors were defined by SVIB variables which had high loadings and high intercorrelations. Previous groupings into occupational families were challenged. A recommended regrouping of SVIB variables…

The study was an attempt to reduce home career conflict experimentally by providing a measure of social sanction for professionally demanding career roles, and to measure the effect of this reduction on home and career interests. Results indicate that regardless of marital status, vocational interest can be raised. Implications for counseling are…

Seventy six college students rated each of 100 occupations either high or low with respect to their interest and ability in each one. Pairings for specific occupations were presented to each subject in a forced choice format. Self rated interest was found to be significantly more important than self rated ability in choosing between two…

Interprets College Interest Inventory, administered to 284 students, both ways, with neither method proving superior. Suggests that under restricted conditions, discriminant function might be more appropriate for counseling purposes than configural analysis. (Author/CJ)

Study of accuracy in estimating scores on the Kuder, Edwards Personal Preference Schedule, and the Strong Vocational Interest Blank when scales were, and were not, categorized by levels of vocational relevance, indicates that relationships between scores increase as a function of vocational relevance. Discusses implications in terms of outcome…

Describes new univariate vocational maturity (VM) scaling, and relates the VM scales, sex, socioeconomic status, and I.Q. to set of career-tree-structure variable (by MANOVA technique) observed at two year intervals over nine year period. (Author/CJ)

A panel of counselors judged accounting-relevant categories on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank. This grouping was found to differentiate accounting graduates and nongraduates. Possible relevant factors are considered. (Author)

Examines relationships between Sensation-Seeking Scale (SSS) and vocational interests measured by the Kuder and Strong Vocational Interest Blank, among alcoholics and undergraduates. Results support construct validity of the SSS and provide further evidence of modes of expression of stimulus-seeking needs in personality. (Author/CJ)