Stability of Self-Descriptive Holland Types and Career Indecision

Abstract

This study examines the stability of self-descriptive Holland types over a 2-month period. Participants were 88 men and 207 women college-student volunteers who rank-ordered descriptions of the six Holland types based on the degree to which they were selfdescriptive. They then responded to the Occupational Alternatives Question and the Career Decision Scale. Two months later they responded to the same materials again. Participants were divided into three groups based on the Iachan index ratings of the agreement between their self-descriptive Holland types over 2 months. There were no statistically significant differences between these groups on career decidedness and career indecision. Women whose selfdescriptive Holland types changed the most had more difficulty relating their Holland types to occupations than did women whose self-descriptive Holland types changed the least. The results are discussed with their implications for career counseling and future research.

Changement vrai et stabilité vraie pour des scores RIASEC de Holland

“…La stabilité structurelle fait référence à l'invariance de la relation entre les items et les échelles et entre les scores aux échelles RIASEC. Ces approches reposent sur la modélisation par équation structurelle (SEM) (Darcy et al, 2007 ;Tracey, 2002 ;Tracey et al, 2005a ;Tracey et al, 2005b), sur le modèle de l'équivalence structurelle RIASEC (Darcy et al, 2007 ;Tracey et al, 2005a ;Tracey et al, 2005b) ou sur les indices de congruence (Slaney, Hall et Bieschke, 1993 ;Tracey et al, 2005a ;Tracey et al, 2005b).…”

The relevancy of holland's theory to a nonprofessional occupation

“…Perhaps the most widely accepted method for describing occupations is Holland's (1985Holland's ( , 1997 theory of people and occupational environments. Holland's theory can be perceived as a direct attempt to organize and systematize the knowledge of self and, secondarily, as the matching of that self with occupational environments (Slaney, Hall, & Bieschke, 1993). Both occupational environments and personalities are grouped into six major categories: Realistic (R), Investigative (I), Artistic (A), Social (S), Enterprising (E), and Conventional (C).…”