Vocational Interests: The Road Less Traveled

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 608-631

  Ian Armstrong, Patrick ^a   Su, Rong ^b   Rounds, James ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuity and change of interests from two theoretical perspectives, a situational perspective, or a dispositional perspective; Dispositional interests, stable involved with an individual's identity and choice of environment; Gender differences in interests in vocational interests, subsuming study of interest measurement on basis of Holland's RIASEC structure; Holland's Structural Formulations Holland's theory of vocational personalities and work environments, match between individuals and environments; Integrated models and interests, cognitive responses to critical features of environments behaviors imposed or suggested by those environments; Interest literature since 1970s using Holland's RIASEC model for organizing research results; Interest theory and how vocational interests contribute to understanding of individual differences; Large differences in interest scores between men and women, unavoidably bringing up issue of interpretation of differences, and consequential validity of interest measures; Prediger's (1982) data ideas and people, and Hogan's (1983) sociability and conformity dimensions in Holland's RIASEC model; Vocational interests the road less traveled

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886068375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444343120.ch23     Document Type: Chapter

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