The study concludes that the best way to avoid sexual bias in the SVIB is to design one form of the inventory that controls for sex differences. (Author)

Vocational interest patterns of male economists on the SVIB were compared with data from non economists most closely resemble those of psychologists and to a lesser extent those of political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists. An economists' scale was developed for the SVIB. (Author)

With the development of scales for the Strong Vocational Interest (SVIB) to measure the six cognitive interest styles propounded by Holland, a parsimonious and comprehensive mapping of the occupational world was available and lent itself to the study of measuring inheritance of vocational preferences among twins. (Author)

An analysis of the vocational preferences of policement and recruits indicated they have militaristic, mechanical, and risky types of interests. (Author)

To pattern recent study on the Men's form of the SVIB, six scales were developed for the Women's form that mapped the vocational model of Holland's interest theory. The data were consistent with the correlations of the Holland-based scales with the basic interest scales and occupational scales now in existence. (Author)

Interest scales for the SVIB were recently developed to measure six cognitive styles proposed by Holland: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional. Mean scores indicate that there are sex differences, institutional differences, and differences across entering classes. (Author)

Item responses for the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) were contrasted for a group of introverts and extraverts. A scale was constructed for the SVIB to measure a dimension of occupational introversion extraversion (OIE). Test retest reliability of the OIE was ofthe same magnitude as the other SVIB scales. Occupations were then ranked on…

A Dogmatism scale was empirically constructed for the SVIB to differentiate high-and low- dogmatism criterion samples. High dogmatism included activities of a military, business, and managerial nature. Low dogmatism reflected artistic interests. Results suggest that the SVIB Dogmatism scale did identify dogmatic and nondogmatic patterns of…

The scope of the paper is to review the two major interest inventories, exploring the nuances and complexities of the technical aspects in their development, their item sampling, norming, scoring, reporting of results, and changing patterns of interests in relation to the differential treatment of sexes; and to suggest guidelines to eliminate or…