On the basis of the present investigation, it is concluded that it is not possible at present to predict reliably whether a high school student's expressed vocational choice will be confirmed by his responses on a standardized preference inventory such as the Kuder DD. (Author)

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…

Author of instrument urges only selective use with sixth graders. Study demonstrates that Kuder can be effective if students are of at least average ability, and participate in group interpretation of survey. Distribution tables. (CJ)

Reprint of an extended report available from: J. Arbuthnot, N.Y. State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 14850.

Investigated classifying graduate students into worker function codes. Results support the proposition that, at least for psychology, worker functions provide a useful differentiation of intraoccupational groups. Students of different worker function profiles revealed interests and self-rated competence that agreed with their assigned codes. (JAC)

In many personality and interest inventories, a score profile, rather than a single score, is attributed to each subject. Six applicable criteria are suggested for use in examining the adequacy of items in such inventories. These criteria relate to the items' response distributions, internal consistency, and discriminative value. (Author/BW)

A consistently found structure of eight group factors based on occupational activity interest items is presented. This study determines whether a similar second-order, structure of interests would result from factor analysis based on responses to sex-balanced items. Results support the group interest structure obtained in previous analyses.…

Results showed that the error rate in the summary code for the revised edition of the self-directed search (SDS) was significantly lower than the error rate for the original SDS. High-point-code error rates between the two forms were similar. (Author)

Suggests that the principal conclusions in the earlier report regarding the relative effects and sex restrictiveness of norm-scored instruments and raw-scored instruments are not warranted by the study design. Alternative approaches and additional research are presented. (Author)

Holland's Self-Directed Search was administered to male and female high school students attending state schools in New Zealand. Results imply that the correspondence between some summary codes on the SDS and existing occupational classifications based on Holland's types may be less than perfect, particularly for females. (Author)

Confirms Holland's congruence hypothesis within the context of interoccupational differences. The higher the engineer's preference for the job function which dominates his present job, the higher his job satisfaction. The present inventory describes best fit between engineer and job in different career development stages. (Author/JAC)

Summarizes research to develop a comprehensive and coordinated occupational testing and classification system. An extension of this research led to identification of measurable interest factors which are incorporated in a trait-oriented occupational classification structure contained in USES Guide for Occupational Exploration, a supplement to the…

Investigates the hypothesis that individuals perceiving threat to behavioral freedom will be motivated to restore this freedom. A study using a pretest-posttest, with-in subjects design was conducted with undergraduate freshmen as subjects. The findings did not support theoretical expectations. (Author)

The Mapping Vocational Challenges inventory was completed by 217 at-risk inner-city adolescents and 198 suburban middle-class adolescents. Exploratory factor analyses found only four of six Holland themes accurately portrayed both groups' conception of occupations. Suburban adolescents had more occupational information and better-defined concept…

Discriminant analysis showed that 97 accounting and hospitality management majors could be identified by their Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory scores. Academic Comfort scores found accounting students more comfortable in the academic environment. Accounting students preferred more introverted activities. (JOW)