This study compared the responses of 50 female and 50 male counseling center clients to a measure of inventoried interests, the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII), and a measure of expressed interests, the Vocational Card Sort (VCS). The two sets of Holland themes, using 3-point codes, were moderately related. Although the five highest basic interests of the two measures were rather strongly related, the relationships between the five highest occupational scales were less clearly related. It was also found that for females, the five highest VCS occupations were less sexually stereotyped than the comparable SCII scales. No differences were found for males. The findings are discussed along with the implications for vocational counseling and future research.Recent research findings on expressed vocational interests have added increased confirmation to Dolliver's (1969) conclusion, based on comparisons with the Strong Vocational Interest Blank, that expressed interests have predictive validity that equals or exceeds that of inventoried interests (
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