The vocational interests of nonprofessional men.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Kenneth E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vocational interests.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 129 pages) : tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1961]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In contrast to most psychological research about occupational interests and related achievement, which has centered on professional and managerial occupations, the study reported here deals with the vocational interests of skilled trades workers. The study is important because, among young people not planning to go to college, many each year select occupations when they have only fragmentary information about the occupation and its requirements and about their own characteristics and needs; the findings of this study will contribute to better counseling of such young people in the future. Dr. Clark's investigation is based on the responses of approximately 25,000 persons to the Minnesota Vocational Interest Inventory. About 6,000 of the subjects were civilians and the rest were enlisted personnel in the U.S. Navy. He describes the development of the Minnesota Vocational Interest Inventory and of scoring keys for use with it, examines the characteristics of these keys, and summarizes various studies of the psychometric characteristics of keys developed by different methods. He discusses use of keys in classifying individuals into occupational groups, then turns to the use of interest measures in predicting achievement and choice of specialty. In conclusion he suggests ways in which improved interest measures may be developed to the end that there may be not only better counseling of individuals but also greater understanding of the processes by which occupational choices occur. Vocational counselors, industrial psychologists, personnel managers, and psychometrists will find the book especially useful.

Contents:

FOREWORD; TABLE OF CONTENTS; 1 THE MEASUREMENT OF INTERESTS; 2 DEVELOPMENT OF THE MINNESOTA INVENTORY; 3 CHARACTERISTICS OF OCCUPATIONAL KEYS; 4 CHARACTERISTICS OF HOMOGENEOUS KEYS; 5 USE OF OCCUPATIONAL AND HOMOGENEOUS KEYS IN CLASSIFYING MEN INTO OCCUPATIONS; 6 PREDICTING ACHIEVEMENT AND CHOICE OF SPECIALTY; 7 TOWARD AN IMPROVED SET OF INTEREST MEASURES; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-126) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-6845-0

OCLC:

233225498