Interest patterns between high ability college freshman women and freshman women in general indicated that high ability women were more interested in legalistic, verbal linguistic, aesthetic, numerical, behavioral, physical, and medical occupations. Others were more interested in business, clerical, health related, religious social, low level…

Study of accuracy in estimating scores on the Kuder, Edwards Personal Preference Schedule, and the Strong Vocational Interest Blank when scales were, and were not, categorized by levels of vocational relevance, indicates that relationships between scores increase as a function of vocational relevance. Discusses implications in terms of outcome…

Describes new univariate vocational maturity (VM) scaling, and relates the VM scales, sex, socioeconomic status, and I.Q. to set of career-tree-structure variable (by MANOVA technique) observed at two year intervals over nine year period. (Author/CJ)

A panel of counselors judged accounting-relevant categories on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank. This grouping was found to differentiate accounting graduates and nongraduates. Possible relevant factors are considered. (Author)

The usefulness of the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery (W-J) to assess learning disabled (LD) children was assessed. The W-J factor clusters could not be replicated with this LD sample, and little evidence was found of the validity of either the cognitive factor clusters or the aptitude factor clusters. (Author/SEW)

Examined effectiveness of interpretation of vocational interest inventory results. Data provide limited support for the hypotheses that integrative interpretation is most effective. Significant interactions exist between counselors and interpretation procedures. Failure to find significant differences between traditional-individual and…

Determines how the Self-Directed Search (SDS) achieves its effects. High school girls were assessed before and after treatment for vocational aspirations, knowledge of typology, and information seeking. Nonsignificant findings imply that SDS achieves its effects partly because of its numerous occupational options. Instructional booklets increase…

Vocational scales other than those describing the occupational group in question may often predict job performance. A case is reported using Holland's Self Directed Search and two groups of policemen. Scores on the Artistic and Conventional scales consistently predict effective performance as a patrolman. (Author)

The validities of two popular procedures for reporting interest inventory scores, one of which provides sex-stereotypic career suggestions, are compared in a longitudinal study of employed college graduates. Results of the study bear directly on the question of whether sex-restrictive interest reports can be justified on the basis of superior…

Results of assigning Holland codes to items seems reasonable, and the codes may be used in future item pool revisions to balance item content, to eliminate poorly defined items, and to select items that are perceived identically by females and males. (Author)

This study identified dimensions of vocational and personality variables in the Cognitive Vocational Maturity Test (CVMT), Work Values Inventory (WVI), Ohio Vocational Interest Survey (OVIS), and Jesness Inventory (JI) for 410 male delinquents. (Author)

Reviews the history of the Strong Interest Inventory and the legacy of its creator, E. K. Strong Jr. Focuses on Strong's development of the inventory method and use of criterion-related scale development. Outlines trends in content-related scale developments, innovations in the inventory, and future directions for predicting career behavior. (RJM)

Examined the psychometric properties of the Adult Career Concerns Inventory (ACCI) when used with a behavioral item-response scale. Results support the hypothesized unidimensionality of the ACCI-B Exploration subscales, need for occupational information, career choice certainty, and career indecision. Discusses implications for counselors. (RJM)