Career Choice and Development

TABLE

9.2.

Summary of Interpretive Ideas and Indices.

Basic Interpretive Ideas

Question

Diagnostic Construct

Indices or Information

Source

Degree of Fit Between:

Congruency

Zener-Schnuelle Index (7-Step–

SDS Manual, Tables 16 or 18, p. 43

Current Aspiration or

No Calculation Necessary; Use

Occupation and SDS Code?

Simple Table)Iachan Agreement Index (28 Steps

SDS Manual Supplement; See

Current Occupation and

—Simple Arithmetic Calculation)

Table 6 for How to Calculate and

Alternative Occupation?

Table 5 for Norms

Any Pair of Occupations,Aspirations, People?Interest Personality

Personality Type and

Descriptions of the Types

SDS Manual Supplement; See

Interests. Traits.

SDS Profile

Tables 1 and 28 or Holland (1985a)

Life Goals. Values.

Secondary Interpretive Ideas

Persistence, Tenure, or Stability of

Coherence of Vocational

Summary Code of Aspirations

SDS Manual Supplement (pp. 8–11)

Vocational Aspiration, Choice,

Aspirations

(Weighted or Unweighted)

or Career

Summary Code of Work History

SDS Manual Supplement(Same as Above)

Consistency of Two-Letter

Hexagonal Model (Adjacent

SDS Manual, p. 4 or Holland

Code or Entire Profile

Types = Very Consistent, Every

(1985), pp. 26–28

Other Type = Moderately Consistent,Opposite Types = Inconsistent)

Differentiation of Entire Profile

Highest Summary Score Minus

SDS Manual, Tables B-1, B-2,

Lowest Summary Score

pp. 65–66 for Norms

Iachan Differentiation Index

SDS Manual Supplement. SeeTable 8 for How to Calculateand Table 7 for Norms

Visual Inspection: Does the Profile ofSummary Scales Have High Peaksand Low Valleys or Is It Relatively Flat?

Common or Rare One- Two-,

Common Codes Associated with Stability;

SDS Manual, Tables B-14 to B-19,

or Three-Letter Code

Rare Codes with Change

pp. 71–75