Psychology 2080A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Strong Interest Inventory, Takers, Job Satisfaction

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2080A/B
• Professor: Prof

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If you want to enter the appropriate career, you must identify your interests. Carnegie interest inventory: first interest inventory- 1921, discussed 15 different interest measures. Two most widely used: interest tests the strong vocational and the kuder preference. After world war one, saw that people in different professional groups had different interests. Found that people in the same line of work had similar hobbies, liked the same type of entertainment and read the same sorts of books and magazines. Criterion keying: develop a test that would match the interest of a subject to the interests and values of a criterion group of people who were happy in the careers they had chosen. Preliminary studies: responded to 400 items dealing with likes and dislikes to peoples occupations. Criterion keying determined how the interests of new subjects resembled those of the criterion groups. 1966- 399 items, 54 occupations for men, separate form presented 32 different occupations for women.