This study examined the appropriateness of using the Self-Directed Search (SDS) with Native American Indian high school students. Inventory scores between two different Indian tribes were compared, and then comparisons were made with national normative data. The Native American students differed among themselves on 4 of the 12 scale comparisons, and there were 6 differences on the 24 scale comparisons with the normative groups. The Indian samples showed higher intercorrelational coefficients among the SDS scales than the normative groups. The Indian high school students were also more inconsistent in their SDS codes and different in the distribution of their highpoint codes. It was concluded that the SDS may be an inappropriate instrument for use with these Native American high school students unless local norms are also considered.In increasing numbers Native American youth are remaining in high school and are planning to attend postsecondary and higher educational institutions. Chavers (1982) has called this movement into higher education an "explosion" and noted that the number of Indians attending college has increased from only about 1,400 in 1963 to 30,000 in 197830,000 in . Havighurst (1981 on the same theme, wrote that Indian youth are becoming a part of the economic mainstream by becoming more educated and trained to meet the demands of the labor market. Yet Wilson (1982) found that a primary factor contributing to their difficulties in succeeding in higher education is lack of educational and career planning.Despite the increasing numbers of Native Americans planning to broaden their career options, little is known about their inventoried vocational interest profiles. Only a few studies have addressed this topic and they have produced mixed results. Anadon (1977) and Scott and Anadon (1980) found nonsubstantial differences on the American College Testing Program Examination (ACT) Interest Inventory between college-bound Native Americans and Caucasians. However, Epperson and Hammond (1981) criticized the Anadon sample as possibly too elitist and cautioned about making generalizations to other Indians. In turn they presented their own study with 9th-grade Zuni Indian students. They found such large differences on the scales of the Kuder General Interest Survey, Form E, between Requests for reprints should be sent to

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This correlational study included a sample of 237 alcoholics who had just completed a detoxification treatment and both male and female Native Americans and Caucasians were tested. On the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire the alcoholics were generally higher than normal samples on the dimensions of toughmindedness, emotionality, and the tendency to fake, but lower on extraversion. Only the P (toughmindedness) and N (emotionality) scales were significantly related. The other scales showed independence. Although scores should be separately reported by sex and race when using the scales, the questionnaire appears to be “culturally fair” for use with Native American alcoholics.

In a study with 427 alcoholics, including 131 male and 99 female Native Americans and 161 male and 36 female Caucasians, the Rotter I-E Locus of Control scale yielded significant sex and race differences. The men tended more toward internality than the women and Caucasians tended more toward an internal social attribution than the Native Americans. There was no significant interaction of sex and race.

We examined the relation of Holland's personality typologies and satisfaction with education, using a sample of 596 Native-American high school students enrolled in eight schools in Manitoba, Canada. We used the Self-Directed Search to determine personality typologies and the Teacher Approval and Education Acceptance scales of the Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes to measure educational satisfaction. Results of analysis of variance showed that students with an Investigative or Social personality type code had significantly higher scores on educational satisfaction than students with a Realistic type code. These results are in the direction hypothesized by Holland and provide support for the generalizability of this hypothesis to a Native-American high school population.