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Download full textEdwards, Keith J.; Whitney, Douglas R. – 1971
A sample of 358 men and 360 women took the Self-Directed Search (SDS), a vocational guidance tool developed by Holland based on his theory of vocational choice. Holland had found that in the occupational domain the factor loadings on the Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional scales fit a hexagonal paradigm…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Classification
Peer reviewedWiner, Jane L.; And Others – Research in Rural Education, 1988
Finds that Holland's Self-Directed Search--Form E was a feasible method of vocational assessment for 25 rural, learning disabled, secondary students when individual assistance was provided on request. Presents scores on six occupational environments and corresponding personality types, and relationships to students' reading level and measured…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Educational Research, Exceptional Persons, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedPrediger, Dale J.; Hanson, Gary R. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
The widely divergent career options suggested to men and women by the Self-Directed Search (SDS) raw scores are noted and misunderstandings concerning the implications of Holland's assessment procedures for his theory are discussed. Holland's defense of raw score reports of personality characteristics is found wanting especially in light of the…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Individual Characteristics, Interest Inventories
Prediger, Dale J. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1976
Holland hypothesized that personality pattern consistency is related to vocational satisfaction, stability, and success. The viability of this key construct in Holland's theory of careers is examined in light of the expected relationship between level of consistency and frequency of occurrence of 2-letter Holland personality codes. Results are…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Factor Analysis, High School Students, Occupational Tests
Peer reviewedHolland, John L. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
The author reviews the evidence for the beneficial effects of the Self-Directed Search (SDS), indicates that Hanson and Prediger have misinterpreted the theory, that their evidence is misleading, and that other evidence indicates that males and females of the same type are similar. The virtues of raw scores are summarized. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Interest Inventories, Occupational Clusters, Occupational Tests
Morrow, Jim M. – 1987
This paper offers some suggestions and cautions concerning the use of the Self-Directed Search (SDS) and the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII). A rationale for separate scoring of interest and ability sections of the SDS is provided, i.e., that correlations between interest and abilities and between abilities and vocational satisfaction…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Interest Inventories, Interrater Reliability, Job Satisfaction
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