Interest patterns of psychologists in nine Western nations.

Administered the SVIB (male form) to a total of 153 psychologists from 5 English-speaking countries: Australia, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa. Scores were compared with corresponding earlier data from 256 Austrian, German and Swiss psychologists who took the translated SVIB, and with anchoring data from 1,045 United States psychologists tested in 1947. 1-way analyses of variance for English-speaking countries on 81 SVIB scales resulted in only 8 significant differences. At the item level, few items differentiated English-speaking Ss. Profile similarities between all 9 countries were strikingly high, suggesting that Western psychologists have esentially the same measured interests, with only minor cultural variations. Cautions concerning the cross-cultural use of the SVIB are emphasized. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)