Investigates the hypothesis that, given a broad sampling of subjects from various occupations, typological analysis will yield a limited number of general interest patterns closely resembling the groups suggested by Holland. (Author)

A review of five interrelated studies showed that certain preselected SVIB occupational scales were indicative of life styles related to accident incurrence. The hypothetical formulation underlying these studies was that vocational interest scores reflect enduring personal characteristics. (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)

The Minnesota Vocational Interest Inventory provides scores that directly relate to many of the issues counselors and counselees discuss. The counselor who has such information at his disposal can give meaningful assistance to an individual facing a decision regarding his future career. (Author)

Individuals were grouped into person clusters on the basis of the similarity of their inventory profiles. In any particular profile cluster, homogeneous groups (by curriculum areas) of individuals tend to group into attraction patterns (presence in profile cluster) and avoidance patterns (absence from profile cluster). (Author)

Suggests that the Vocational Card Sort is best used as a combined assessment and counseling technique that stimulates clients to project their idiosyncratic classifications of occupational values and interests. It should not be used as a self-administered interest inventory. (JAC)

Provides evidence concerning the relationship between measures of the domains of interests and values. Scores obtained from the Career Orientation Placement and Evaluation Survey and the California Occupational Preference System were intercorrelated. The low magnitude of correlations, consistent with previous research, supports the view that these…

Discusses changes in SVIB. These include: (1) one booklet and one profile form will be used for both sexes; (2) profile scores are organized into Holland's theoretical system; (3) many new occupational scales; (4) M-F scale has been dropped; and (5) all materials have been screened to eliminate subtle sexism. (Author)

This article proposes that sex-limiting effects of interest inventories do not necessarily constitute sex-bias and that sex-restrictiveness is an important characteristic of interest inventories that should be considered separately from sex bias. Presented at NIE Workshop on Sex Bias, Washington, D.C., March 1974. (Author)

Three age groups in six occupational samples were tested on the SCII and their scale scores were examined for significant differences. Data indicates that interests generally are not different for people of different ages in the same occupation. (Author)

A samples of 347 secondary school students were administered Holland's Vocational Preference Inventory. They were divided into high and low mental ability groups, and correlations were computed between the VPI scores of subjects within each of the IQ ranges. The results suggest that the VPI's usefulness may be limited to secondary school students…

Validity of the SVIB for predicting career choice at the end of college was studied with able black and white men who were winners of National Achievement and National Merit Scholarships in 1966. Membership in career groups was predicted at least as well for these able blacks as it was for the whites. (Author)

The purpose of this study was: (a) to acquaint readers with Tryon's spherical analysis and show that spatial configuration analysis is a special case of Tryon's method and (b) to determine if items from ACT's Vocational Interest Profile conform to previous results obtained from a spatial configuration analysis of the VIP Scales. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which vocational interests of adolescents differed as a function of sex and aptitude. Aptitude was significantly related to six vocational interests areas. Differences between males and females in vocational interests did not change. (Author)