Holland's Theory and Career Assessment

Holland's Theory and Implications for Academic Advising and Career Counseling

“…Such theory-based interventions provide an alternative to the unsystematic, eclectic counseling and advising interventions used in some settings. Reardon and Lenz (1999) noted that constructs important in Holland's theory (1997) (e.g., code, congruence, differentiation, coherence, consistency, identity, profile elevation) are readily translated into practice for use in designing interventions for individual students with educational and career decision-making problems.…”

An Evidence for Validity of Holland’s Theory of Personality Types in Turkish Culture

“…One of the basic assumptions of the theory is its structure with a significant relationship between each of the six basic personality types. According to this model, one of the personality types shows highest rate correlation with its adjacent type and shows lower correlation with the more distant ones (Reardon & Lenz, 1999). As a result, because of its position in the pattern, it is expected that individuals matching Realistic personality type, will show high correlation with Investigative and Conservative types and show low correlation with the others.…”

El asesoramiento vocacional y profesional a través del Self-Directed Search (SDS)

“…Holland (Holland, 1997;Reardon y Lent, 1998, 1999 proporciona una serie de medidas, basadas en unos supuestos secundarios, que facilitan información adicional en relación con el proceso de decisión vocacional. Estas medidas están referidas a la congruencia, la consistencia, la diferenciación, la coherencia y la frecuencia.…”