The present investigation used an emic approach to develop a set of Icelandic indigenous basic interest scales. An indigenous item pool that is representative of the Icelandic labor market was administered to three samples (N = 1043, 1368, and 2218) of upper secondary and higher education students in two studies. A series of item level cluster and…

The underlying factor structure of the Learning Experiences Questionnaire (LEQ; Schaub, 2004) was examined using data from 742 male and female college-age respondents. The LEQ items reflect a variety of learning experiences (generated based on Bandura's (1986, 1997) four sources of self-efficacy perceptions) that might occur in each of Holland's…

To explore the structure of vocational interests in Serbia, 1063 participants of various age, education and gender completed the Serbian version of the Personal Globe Inventory [PGI, Tracey, T. (2002). "Personal Globe Inventory: Measurement of the spherical model of interests and competence beliefs." "Journal of Vocational…

A multidimensional model of career success was developed aiming to be more inclusive than existing models. In a first study, 22 managers were asked to tell the story of their careers. At the end of each interview, idiosyncratic career success "construct ladders" were constructed for each interviewee through an interactive process with the…

This study explored the relationship between three-component organizational/occupational commitment and organizational/occupational turnover intention, and the reciprocal relationship between organizational and occupational turnover intention with a non-recursive model in collectivist cultural settings. We selected 177 nursing staffs out of 30…

Comments on the preceding article include "Slicing the Vocational Interest Pie One More Time" (Borgen, Donnay); "Lost in Space" (Harmon); "Alternative Dimensions of the Tracey-Rounds Interest Sphere" (Prediger); "Prestige in Vocational Interests" (Gottfredson); "What Goes around, Comes around"…

Multidimensional scaling analysis was conducted on the responses of 648 college students to 110 occupational title items in the Strong Interest Inventory. A three-dimensional structure of vocational interests emerged: Data-Ideas, People-Things, and Sex-Type. (SK)

Multidimensional scaling was applied to Women-in-General (n=300) and Men-in-General (n=300) samples of the Strong Interest Inventory. Participants were matched on occupational title, obtaining two-dimensional solutions that demonstrated gender differences in the underlying structure of vocational interests. (SK)

Bolivian college students (n=98) completed the Spanish version of the Self-Directed Search. Three structural models of interests (Holland's, Gati's, and Rounds and Tracey's) were fit to correlations among scales. Results indicate poor model fit, suggesting that none of the models adequately characterize the interests of Bolivian students and…

Examines fit of the correlations among the SCII General Occupational Theme scales to Holland's RIASEC hexagon model. Results suggest the SCII General Occupational Themes may be interpreted in the context of Holland's hexagon model for males but that further study is needed to support the scales for females. (Author)

A sample of 266 undergraduates expressed preferences among 229 occupations. Responses supported inclusion of a prestige component to vocational interest measures. Twenty-four subscales were created for geometrically defined combinations of interest components. Test of this spherical model with 223 college and 370 high school students supported…

Holland's [Holland, J. L. (1959). A theory of occupational choice. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 6, 35-45; Holland, J. L. (1997). Making vocational choices: A theory of vocational personalities and work environments (3rd ed.). Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc.] RIASEC types were initially developed using a restricted range…

Most studies of counterproductive work behavior (CWB) assess it as one or two overall dimensions that might obscure relationships of potential antecedents with more specific forms of behavior. A finer-grained analysis of the relationship between counterproductive work behavior and antecedents was conducted with the five-subscales (abuse toward…

The field of engineering is defined by a number of specialty areas, thus most engineering students must decide upon an educational specialty track within the engineering major. Data on familiarity with, and perceptions of similarity among 11 engineering specialties were collected from 129 undergraduate engineering students from a public urban…