Asserts that inadequate attention has been given to incorporating family members in career counseling setting with adult clients. Explores a career counseling paradigm that takes into account the couple dynamics active in the adult's career choice process. Unique elements of the conjoint model, such as couple career assessment, along with…

Presents development of Holland's congruence theory in four layers: (1) vocational interest and occupational choices as dichotomy of fit/nonfit; (2) level of congruence between vocational interests and occupational choices; (3) environmental congruence; and (4) within-occupation congruence. Suggests integrative interpretation for variance found in…

Examined the factors in the choice of a military career, using a theoretical model. A number of factors are identified, including a need for security, a tendency to conformity, role status, and professional development that may be lost upon leaving the army. (JAC)

Tested models of interests by examining the significance of disconfirmed ordinal predictions. Examined data regarding Holland's hexagonal model and Roe's circular ordering. Tested adequacy of the hierarchical model and compared significance of the disconfirmed predictions of the hierachical model to that of the hexagonal-circular model. (Author)