Career Choice and Development

Brown and Gore (1994), in another Monte Carlo study, com- pared ten indices and created a new index (c), with a symmetrical unde ...

toward congruent occupational choices when opportunities arise to do so (Spokane, 1985; Oleski & Subich, 1996). Because Holl ...

defined more narrowly as interests that are simply patterns of item responses on interest inventories (Spokane & Decker, 199 ...

the styles being most similar along dimensions of (1) social domi- nance-submissiveness and (2) emotionality-restraint. Reasonin ...

should be considered complex measures that reflect personality, as well as preferences, motivation, values, self-efficacy, style ...

(hierarchy, hexagon, or circumplex), three-dimensional (sphere), or hierarchical (Gati, 1991). These studies by Rounds and Trace ...

assumptions of the theory may translate poorly for test (Spokane, 1986). Thus our conclusions about cultural compatibility shoul ...

pation among adults, and (3) correlational methodology (Spokane, 1986; Spokane et al., 2001). In a third study of 456 female and ...

Spokane (1999), in one of the few studies incorporating both an English and a Spanish-language version of the SDS, compared His- ...

surprising amount (though certainly not all) of this research has been supportive of the existence of a limited set of types, th ...

studied—thus the prominent role of identity in the most recent revision of the theory (Holland, 1997). Culture, gender role, cog ...

cultural group is in a dominant or subordinate position (has major- ity or minority status) may dictate the degree of structure ...

more diffuse emphasis on general lifestyle concerns. Lifestyle issues are prominent in both cases, consistent with the youthful ...

The Case of K A culture-centered intervention consistent with Holland’s theory would begin with a discussion of K’s strengths an ...

would aid in unearthing the underlying positive and negative con- structs through which K is evaluating his future possibilities ...

ment through a preventative-developmental lens. Interests—their strength, pattern, and underlying structure—probably all do clar ...

affect E’s choice. E’s occupational daydreams are very high in occu- pational prestige (see Gottfredson, this volume) but genera ...

Astin, A. W. (1999). The early years of Holland’s research: Some personal reflections.Journal of Vocational Behavior, 55,155–160 ...

Carson, A. D., & Mowesian, R. (1993a). Self-monitoring and private self- consciousness: Relations to Holland’s vocational pe ...

Diamond, J. (1999). Guns, germs, & steel.New York: W. W. Norton. Duany, A., & Plater-Zyberk, E. (1992). The second comin ...