“…Furthermore, we focus on the more global traitlike quality of interests, which covers school and academic content as well as nonschool content. Although research that focuses on a narrower band of school-only content (usually science and math) is important (e.g., Eccles et al, 1993;Eccles & Wigfield, 2002;Fouad & Smith, 1996;Hilton & Berglund, 1974;Lapan, Shaughnessy, & Boggs, 1996;Lopez, Lent, Brown, & Gore, 1997;Meece, Parsons, Kaczala, Goff, & Futterman, 1982;O'Brien, Martinez-Pons, & Kopala, 1999), we view interests and their impact on decision making more broadly. As such, our focus is on the broader, more general representation of interests as typically summarized by Holland's (1997) six interest types: Realistic (R), Investigative (I), Artistic (A), Social (S), Enterprising (E), and Conventional (C).…”