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Chapter 16
…in Counseling Psychology

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Lectures:

  • next exam 4/15
    • Chapters 9–16
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  • presentation groups start 4/24

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Career Counseling

…helping maximize person–job fit

Interests

if you want to enter an appropriate career, you must identify your interests 1 (Kaplan & Saccuzzo, 2018, p. 426)

  • workers within different occupational groups tend to enjoy different activities 🤔
  • interests are thought to be stable & enduring (@ ~17 yo)

Note

Some interests are universal (found within occupations across cultures), but there are likely gender differences in interests (controversial)

Interest inventories

  • first (published) interest inventory was the Carnegie Interest Inventory (Moore, 1921)
  • Strong’s first publication on interest measurement was in 1926 (Strong Vocational Interest Blank)
    • empirically–keyed1
  • Strong–Campbell Interest Inventory (Campbell, 1974) aimed to mitigate gender differences
    • also incorporated Holland (1959)’s theory of vocational choice

Holland

interests express personality and people can be classified into one or more of 6 categories according to their interests (Kaplan & Saccuzzo, 2018, p. 428)

  • vocational choice theory postulates greater success & satisfaction with occupations that match your personality
  • RIASEC is a type–based theory of personality that is also used to describe work environments

Kuder Occupational Interest Survey

First published as the Kuder Preference Survey (Kuder, 1939) by the same guy who gave us KR20

  • different activities are presented in triads
    • test–taker selects most & least preferred activity
  • feedback given on 10 general occupational interests as well as several possible college majors
  • Outdoor
  • Mechanical
  • Science
  • Technical Sales
  • Management
  • Arts
  • Communication
  • Social
  • Personal Services
  • Business Operations

Other interest inventories

Jackson Vocational Interest Survey:

  • 289 job–related statements aggregate to 34 “basic interest” scales
    • forced choice between 2 statements
    • 45 minutes administration time

Career Assessment Inventory:

  • aimed at careers not requiring college or professional training

Self–Directed Search:

  • Holland’s own inventory is self–administered & scored

Gender differences

Differences do not necessarily indicate bias – it is possible that men & women at the group–level have meaningfully different interest profiles1

  • Commission on Sex Bias in Measurement established in 1973 by the Association for Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance (AMEG; now American Counseling Association)
  • based on committee recommendations, many inventories stopped using separate norms for men and women

Other placement constructs

Interest is not the only useful consideration when helping individuals find satisfying or acceptable work applications

  • skill & knowledge both common important considerations for actual performance
  • interest has stronger associations with satisfaction and tenure

The surname most closely associated with interest inventories is ___________

  • Strong
  • Fortune
  • Vivid
  • Heavy

Interests are believed to be fairly stable (as of roughly 17 years old)

  • True
  • False

Holland’s “Realistic” category is most conceptually distinct from _________

  • Social
  • Enterprising
  • Artistic
  • Investigative
  • Conventional

F. G. Kuder created an interest inventory as well as an index of __________

  • reliability
  • validity
  • correlation
  • regression

_________ lists Holland codes for many different US occupations

  • O*Net
  • I*Net
  • E*Net
  • U*Net

Assessment groups:




Starting 4/24 (Thursdays):

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Vanessa A Mae F Sarah J Sarah M Hannah T
Sabina B Alaina G Thomas J Raelyn R William T
Nathan B Payton H Grace K Ellen R Jennifer T
Maritza B Elly J Grace L Rachel S Lila W

References

Campbell, D. P. (1974). Manual for the SVIB–SCII strong–campbell interest inventory (2nd ed.). Stanford University Press.
Holland, J. L. (1959). A theory of vocational choice. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 6(1), 35.
Kaplan, R. M., & Saccuzzo, D. P. (2018). Psychological testing: Principles, application, and issues (9th ed.). Cengage.
Kuder, G. F. (1939). Preference record. Chicago: Science Research Associates.
Moore, B. V. (1921). Personnel selection of graduate engineers. Psychololgical Monographs, 30, 1–85.