PSYC 3250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Strong Interest Inventory, Career Assessment, Concurrent Validity
14 Dec 2016
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Designed to assess an individuals" interest/preference for various activities. Most commonly used in clinical or industrial settings. Included items that were rated significantly different from a referent norm group. Participants had to: be satisfied with their job, have held the position for at least 3 years. Participant response patterns differentiated the various occupations they entered. In 1927, strong vocational interest bank-the first published version of his interest test. Interested in finding differences between referent groups and general population. Good for understanding general occupations, not specific ones. In 1974 switched from inter-correlation to john holland"s theory. Six major interest areas that describe work and people. Measures type of work, learning, and activities preferred by the participants (risk taking. Influenced by the length of time between testing and age of participant when first tested. Focuses on the interaction between personality and job performance. Advertised as: empirically based, underpinned by rigorous research, regularly updated.
