The authors obtained self-and observer reports of personality from pairs of well-acquainted college students. Consistent with previous findings, results of Study 1 showed strong cross-source agreement for all 6 HEXACO personality factors (rs Ϸ .55). In addition, the authors found modest levels of similarity (r Ϸ .25) between dyad members' self-reports on each of 2 dimensions, Honesty-Humility and Openness to Experience. For these same 2 factors, dyad members' self-reports were correlated with their observer reports of the other dyad member (r Ϸ .40), thus indicating moderately high assumed similarity. In Study 2, Honesty-Humility and Openness to Experience were the 2 personality factors most strongly associated with the 2 major dimensions of personal values, which also showed substantial assumed similarity. In Study 3, assumed similarity was considerably stronger for close friends than for nonfriend acquaintances. Results suggest that assumed similarity for Honesty-Humility and Openness to Experience reflects a tendency to overestimate one's similarity to persons with whom one has a close relationship, but only on those personality characteristics whose relevance to values gives them central importance to one's identity.

The purpose of the present research was to test the mediating roles of body shame and appearance anxiety in the relation between self-surveillance and self-esteem; and to investigate whether gender (male, female) and stereotypical gender roles (masculinity, femininity) moderated the proposed mediation model. Canadian undergraduate university men and women (n= 198) completed measures of self-surveillance, gender, gender roles, body shame, appearance anxiety, and selfesteem. Regression analyses demonstrated that greater self-surveillance predicted lower self-esteem, and this relation was fully mediated by body shame and appearance anxiety. With the exception of masculinity interacting with self-surveillance to predict body shame and appearance anxiety, neither gender nor stereotypical gender roles moderated the proposed paths. Implications are discussed.

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We investigated the psychometric properties of the Oregon Vocational Interest Scales (ORVIS), a brief public-domain alternative to commercial inventories, in a large community sample and in a college sample. In both samples, we examined the factor structure, scale intercorrelations, and personality correlates of the ORVIS, and in the community sample we also examined the correlations of the ORVIS scales with cognitive abilities and with the scales of a longer, proprietary interest survey. In both samples, all eight scales-Leadership, Organization, Altruism, Creativity, Analysis, Producing, Adventuring, and Erudition-showed wide variation in scores, high internal-consistency reliabilities, and a pattern of high convergent and low discriminant correlations with the scales of the proprietary interest survey. Overall, the results support the construct validity of the scales, which are recommended for use in research on vocational interests and other individual differences. KeywordsVocational Interests; Personality; Ability In this report, we introduce the Oregon Vocational Interest Scales. This new instrument measures eight important types of occupational interest, similar to those identified by Holland (1973) and Campbell, Hyne, and Nilsen (1992), but has the additional advantages of being brief and available in the public domain. Assessment of Vocational InterestsVocational interests represent an important domain of individual differences, one that overlaps only partially with the ability or personality domains (e.g., Ackerman & Heggestad, 1997 Measures of the major areas of vocational interest can discriminate among persons of different occupational groups or academic majors, providing incremental validity beyond that provided by ability or personality variables (e.g., Logue, Lounsbury, Gupta, & Leong, 2007). Some research even indicates that vocational interests can discriminate between persons of different sexual orientations much more strongly than can personality characteristics (Lippa, 1998). Given the importance of vocational interests as individual difference variables, a brief publicdomain measure of the main areas of vocational interest would be useful for researchers.Prior to developing a self-report measure of vocational interests, the researcher must choose a strategy for constructing scales and a format for presenting items. Some inventories are based on a criterion-oriented strategy, whereby items are selected on the basis of their empirical ability to discriminate between occupational groups; other inventories are based on a constructoriented strategy, whereby items are selected on the basis of their conceptual relevance to a given domain of interests (see Cronbach, 1990, p. 467). Some inventories involve a forcedchoice item format, whereby respondents must indicate which item is most or least endorsed; other inventories involve a single-stimulus item format, whereby respondents must indicate their level of endorsement of each item in turn (see Cronbach, 1990, p. 470). The scales of the pre...