Relationship between stated and measured interests of two groups of United States Air Force officers.

Strong VIB scores and interests recorded on personal history forms were compared for Air Force officers in the personnel and accountant-comptroller areas. 3 judges interpreted the SVIB's and 3 classified the stated interests into occupational groups on the SVIB. There was good agreement among the judges on both tasks. Air Force officers tended to select civilian occupations (stated interests) similar to their military occupations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Interpreting other-sex scores on the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory.

To promote understanding of other-sex scores on the new Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory, correlations between occupational scales common to both forms of the old Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) with "masculinity" of interests were studied in a sample of 116 female counseling clients. Differences in mean scores for scales appearing on both SVIB forms were highly related to the masculinity of interests of the people in those occupations, compared to others of the same sex. Recommendations are included for using Masculinity-Femininity scores to guide clients with high scores on occupational scales normed on the other sex. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Ten-year follow-up of the Tyler Vocational Card Sort and the Strong Vocational Interest Blank.

The Tyler Vocational Card Sort (TVCS) and SVIB for men were completed by 67 university students in 1965. The 1975 occupations held by 47 of these Ss were identified. The TVCS was more accurate than the SVIB, by a very small amount, in predicting occupation held 10 yrs after original testing; both methods achieved about 50% accuracy. Of the 47 Ss, 23 took the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII) 10 yrs after the original testing. The reliability of the SVIB (1965) scores and the SCII (1975) scores was greater by a very small amount than that of the SVIB (1965) and the TVCS (1975) scores and that of the TVCS (1965) and TVCS (1975) scores. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

On measuring the vocational interests of women.

Examined the structure of women's interests as shown by the SVIB, the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey, Holland's Vocational Preference Inventory, and the American College Testing Vocational Interest Profile. Analyses of the interrelationship of scales and of the interest patterns of women selecting various occupations support the similarity of the structure of women's interests to the structure previously found for men. It is suggested that this information be used to provide women with information about more and more diverse career options than are now commonly available. (27 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Inventoried vocational interests of cartographers.

Studied the interests of 466 male cartographers to develop a cartographer scale for the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB). Results show that (a) cartographers liked science, mathematics, and religious activities; (b) they were masculine and diverse and tended to dislike activities involving other people; and (c) their interests were most similar to those of computer programers, public administrators, Air Force officers, and physical therapists though none of those SVIB keys adequately portrayed the interests of the cartographers. The cartographer key developed was cross-validated on 2 cartographer samples drawn from other populations (n = 89) and was found to discriminate adequately between cartographers and men in general. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Vocational interests of college freshmen and their social origins.

The relationship between interests as measured on the SVIB and socioeconomic status of college students was explored. 9 groups of entering college freshmen were selected on the basis of father's occupation and educational level of both parents. Differences among distributions of the 9 groups on each of 48 SVIB scales were tested for significance using the analysis of variance test. Conclusions are: measured vocational interests of college students were not independent of social origin, college students of lesser cultural background tended to identify with occupations requiring quantitative and technical training, extent of overlap between social groups on SVIB scales was high. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Vocational interests of political scientists.

Collected SVIBs from 177 male members of the Midwest Conference of Political Scientists. Their interests were most like those of psychiatrists and psychologists, public administrators and social workers, librarians and musicians, and lawyers and author-journalists. When compared with sociologists, political scientists had interests less like those of applied biological scientists, physical scientists, outdoors and skilled worker occupations, administrators, and businessmen. Similar differences were found between psychologists and political scientists. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Occupational groupings of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank and the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory.

Occupational groupings on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) and Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII) are useful for (a) extrapolating the results to nonincluded occupations in the same family and (b) judging the reliability of a high score by other scores in the same group. These purposes can be accomplished only if the groups are shown to be homogeneous. For 337 male entering college freshmen tested on the SVIB, Form T399, and 201 tested on the SCII, Form T325, average intercorrelations were calculated for occupations within existing groups and also for new groups derived from a factor-analytic study. Average intragroup correlations of .40-.79 were found for the T399, .49-.73 with the T325, and .60-.68 with the factored groups. The average of all within-groups correlations was significantly higher for the latter than for the other two. The predominant groupings of the factor study were Interpersonal Manipulation, Technical and Scientific, and Verbal. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Vocational interests of middle-aged men with traumatic spinal cord injury.

Objectives: Describe vocational interests of middle-aged men with traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI). Participants: Seventy-nine Caucasian men with traumatic SCI (mean age?=?44 years; mean time since onset?=?20 years), 74% with quadriplegia. Measure: Strong Interest Inventory. Results: Replicated the unique pattern of interests found by D. E. Rohe and G. T. Athelstan (1982) among younger men with SCI. Compared with the normative sample, participants were more introverted, less academically oriented, and primarily interested in physically challenging and action-oriented occupations despite their functional limitations. Conclusions: Middle-aged men with traumatic SCI have the same unique vocational interest pattern as their younger peers. This pattern is not an artifact of age or time since onset and may partially explain low rates of employment after SCI. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

A forty-year follow-up on the vocational interests of psychologists and their relationship to career development.

Studied a career development questionnaire completed by 37 male psychologists, and SVIBs which they completed on 3 occasions between 1927 and 1968. Test and retest profiles for the sample were similar over the 40-yr period, but interest in strenuous activities and in activities requiring association with other people decreased with age. No 1 factor seemed to have been dominant in leading Ss to become psychologists. Career development had most often been influenced by major position changes, many affected by environmental factors. Some individual profiles changed markedly over time. 2 groups of 10 Ss each, representing Ss with stable and unstable interests, were compared. The "stable" Ss tended to prefer academic and artistic activities and centered their careers around teaching and research. The "unstable" Ss were more interested in working with people in managerial or supervisory relationships and tended to move from teaching toward administration or business. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Predictive validity of vocational interests within nonprofessional occupations.

Compared the scores of 174 Navy enlisted men on K. Clark's Navy Vocational Interest Inventory with Ss' scores obtained as civilians 6 yr. later and subsequent civilian occupations. Results show reliability and validity which parallel those reported for the SVIB. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Strong Vocational Interest Blank in-general samples.

Throughout the history of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB), the aggregation of "in-general" samples to represent an "average" has been of concern because an adequate in-general sample is necessary for the development of valid occupational scales for the SVIB. 6 in-general samples have been generated over the years to fit different developments of the SVIB. In the present study 20 experimental homogeneous scales were used to measure the similarities and differences among the 6 in-general samples. Generally, all samples were strikingly similar, with the greatest differences appearing between male and female in-general samples. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Relationship between measured interest patterns and satisfactory vocational adjustment for Air Force officers in the comptroller and personnel fields.

Comparison of personnel data sheet responses and Strong VIB scores for 243 comptroller officers and 1155 personnel officers led to the conclusion that the SVIB reflects the degree of satisfactory adjustment for Air Force officers in each field. For both groups, a significantly larger proportion of those Ss with SVIB patterns most similar to the SVIB patterns of their civilian counterparts express a preference for the Air Force specialty in which they are and a preference to engage in the activity in civilian life. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Internal-external control of reinforcement and the Strong Vocational Interest Blank: A comparison study.

Studied the relationship between the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB), Form T399, and Rotter's Internal-External Control Scale (I-E scale). A previous study by D. G. Zytowski (see record 1967-07353-001) suggested a relationship between locus of control and occupational interest. To verify this, he correlated the SVIB with the I-E scale and concluded that such a relation did exist. Because the SVIB has been revised since Zytowski's study, a comparable study using the newer SVIB form was completed. Using a college freshman sample of 736, Pearson correlation coefficients were computed between the I-E scale and the SVIB; several correlations were significant at the .10 level; however, the largest correlation was -.16. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Probability and utility assumptions underlying use of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank.

Decision implications of E. K. Strong's (1955) assumption of equal base rates for his men-in-general and individual occupational groups are explored, using the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) Physician's scale as an example. It is demonstrated that when realistic base rates are assumed, total decision error rate using the SVIB-even when optimal cutting scores are employed-is at best about equal to that resulting from prediction using base rates alone. Use of the SVIB as recommended by Strong implicitly assumes that false negative errors are much more serious than are false positives. When "reasonable" utility or gain matrices are assumed, use of the SVIB can reduce total error rate despite the limitations imposed by low occupational base rates; this effect is greater when statistically optimal cutting scores, rather than those recommended by Strong, are used. (15 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Ten-year follow-up of vocational interest scores of 1950 medical college seniors.

Using the Strong Vocational lnterest Blank (SVIB) and the Medical Specialists Preference Blank, interest scales for surgeon, internists, pathologists, and psychiatrists were administered to 783 seniors in 15 medical schools in 1950. 87% of this group returned questionnaires regarding then professional activities in 1960. 75% of the group were in specialized practice compared to less than 25% of all physicians in 1950. The specialist interest scales did not predict the specialty entered. A scale based on all the specialists did differentiate specialists from general practitioners. The SVIB Physician Scale did not differentiate among specialties or type of practice. Younger physicians appear to resemble psychiatrists in their interests. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

A vocational interest scale for biologists.

A Biologist scale for the SVIB (Form M) was developed following procedures outlined by E. K. Strong, Jr. 4 groups were employed: (a) criterion (N = 251) systematically selected from Volume 2 of American Men of Science, (b) cross-validation (N = 89) selected at an American Institute of Biological Science convention, (c) 2 concurrent validation groups (Ns = 121, 306) selected from the Pennsylvania State University student body. Results indicated that the scale differentiated the interests of: (a) the biologists from Strong's men-in-general group (P1), (b) the biologists from the interests measured by 36 other SVIB scales, (c) the concurrent validation groups in the expected direction. Reliabilities of .88 (criterion) and .87 (cross-validation) were obtained. It was concluded that the scale has sufficient validity and reliability to be a useful counseling device. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

A factorial study of the female form of the SVIB.

The female form of the SVIB was administered to 203 freshmen and sophomore female students in an introductory course in the University of Florida's College of Health Related Services. 29 scales were scored, intercorrelated, and factor analyzed. 9 factors resulted with loadings of ±.35 or more. The factors are discussed in terms of implications for female vocational interest and compared with previous factor analytic studies with the male form of the Blank. Groupings of occupations are presented, also, based on the factor structure of the female interests. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Interests of engineers related to turnover, selection, and management.

"Using the Strong Vocational Interest Blank, four groups of interest items were found to distinguish engineers who left the service of a particular electrical utility within the first 2 years from engineers who stayed longer. Comparing the interests of engineers who had assumed senior responsibility in relatively short time confirmed the suspicion that some of the men who were leaving might be those who were similar in interest to the leaders. Thus, those likely to leave the organization could be separated into two identifiable groups. One group it is considered relatively safe to screen out at the time of application. The other group should be encouraged to stay by efforts to change conditions in the organization so as to provide better satisfaction for their interests. It is suggested that, as well as selecting suitable people, an organization may need to adapt itself so as to satisfy the needs of the kind of people it requires." From Psyc Abstracts 36:04:4LI43B. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)