The purpose of this study is to examine the role of personality traits measured by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ; [Tellegen, 2000] and [Tellegen and Waller, 2008]) in selecting educational majors. Personality traits were examined alone, and with the combination of Holland's hexagonal confidence domains, as measured by the…

Reviews the hundreds of studies showing that general cognitive ability predicts job performance in all jobs. Shows that general cognitive ability predicts supervisor ratings and training success and that general cognitive ability predicts objective, rigorously content valid work sample performance with even higher validity. (Author/ABB)

Examined the structure and relationship of vocational interests and primary abilities in 149 college women. Factor analysis of the ability measures showed a pattern similar to Holland's interest model, except that no ability factor analogous to Realistic interests emerged, and there were two Artistic factors, musical and artistic/spatial. Little…

Construct validity of the Occupational Aptitude Patterns Map was supported in an experiment in which positions held by young adults in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth were classified and characteristics compared to job aptitude theories. The map differentiates jobs on the basis of their cognitive ability requirements. (SK)

Strong Interest Inventory items from 320 counseling clients were classified into Occupational Aptitude Patterns (OAP) Map clusters. Principal components analysis supported this structure, suggesting the potential use of the OAP Map for job classification and improvement of person/environment fit. (SK)

Graduates and dropouts from six vocational training programs were compared on school record data and on responses to questionnaires. They did not differ significantly in age, level of education, high school completion, marital status, disabilities, or GATB score. Significant factors were: 1. whether vocational school offered student's first choice…

Women were classified as career or homemaker oriented. Significant differences between groups were found on variables within enabling conditions (family characteristics), facilitating conditions (educational and vocational characteristics), and precipitating conditions (attitudinal factors). Enabling conditions best differentiated the groups.…

Follow-up of 115 young adults 8 years after high school aptitude and interest testing showed that aptitude-job correspondence predicted satisfactory performance. Interest-job correspondence and satisfactoriness predicted different measures of satisfaction, only when current interests were used. (SK)