PSYC 3460 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Uptodate, Job Satisfaction, Strong Interest Inventory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3460
• Professor: Deborah Powell

Document Summary

Interests: a learned affective response to an object or activity: things that we have interest in elicit positive feelings, things we have no interest in elicit a little affect, apathy, or even aversion. Interests are not the same as abilities: measures of abilities tend to predict performance or proficiency, whereas measures of interests are related to satisfaction or persistence. Interest inventories: designed to help people understand their interests, in order to promote better performance, greater productivity, and greater job satisfaction. Interest patterns are fairly well established by 17 years old: hundreds of published studies have shown that patterns of interests remain relatively stable over time. John holland developed a theory that describes how individuals interact with their environment: he proposed that interests express personality, holland found that by late adolescence most people come to resemble a combination of six vocational personality/interest types, realistic.