Effects of response style on the Occupational Scales of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory.

Abstract

When an answer sheet for the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory is marked with all likes (L), all indifferences (I), or all dislikes (D), the resulting Occupational Scale (OS) scores reflect the use of either L, I, or D responses on each scale. The name skeleton has been coined for such a profile because it shows the bare bones of the test construction. When a student's response style is also greatly skewed, the OS profile tends to reflect the pattern of the underlying skeleton rather than the student's own interests. In this study, correlating the skeleton profiles with college students' profiles showed that the common variance may average around 35% when a predominance of any one response (L, I, or D) reaches 60%. A/s for the comparison sets ranged from 712 to 836. A factor analysis of a structured sample (N = 24) of high-L, -I, and -D students from engineering, business administration, liberal arts and sciences, architecture, art, and urban planning resulted in factors related to response style rather than curricula.

No Work and All Play: An Analysis of a Response Style on the Strong‐Campbell Interest Inventory

“…Electronic Journal: To print this article select pages 75-76. TOC the validity cutoff scores of 70% suggested by Campbell and Hansen (1981) and of 60% suggested by Creaser (1985).…”

“…Suggested occupations are generated for such an extreme response style due to the nature of the test construction. Creaser (1985) explained that many scales have a predominance of posi-tively or negatively weighted items; consequently, the effect of a high Like or high Dislike response style on such scales would affect their being considered as viable career choices for the individual. The no work, all play response style does result in a substantial discrepancy of Like and Dislike responses within the Administrative Indexes (especially the first four indexes of Occupations, School Subjects, Activities, and Leisure Activities).…”

“…The tendency toward an excessive use of one type of response has been studied by a number of researchers, most recently by Creaser (1985), who identified what he termed skeleton profiles for the three response options. Using an approach similar to Creaser's, this study created a profile to examine the effect(s) that a nonwork-oriented response style might have on SCII scores.…”

Effects of Response Set on the Infrequent Response Index of the Strong Interest Inventory

“…The effects of response sets on personality and interest measurements have been documented clearly in the literature (Bonynge, 1991: Creaser, 1985. Nearly 35 years ago, Jackson and Messick (1958) proposed that response style might reveal more about the respondent than would the actual test scores obtained.…”

“…This suggests a possible response set that is exacerbated if such a response set is not easily recognizable by examining the profile. For example, the Occupational Scales profile (of the Sil) obtained if a client answers Like to a11 325 items is a highly differentiated profile, with standard scores ranging from below 10 to above 65 (Creaser, 1985).…”