Locus of control, consistency of vocational interest patterns, and academic achievement.

Foster, James A.; Gade, Eldon M.

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“…Research producing negative findings has been reported in the literature (Bates, Parker, & McCoy, 1970;Frantz & Walsh, 1972;Hughes, 1972;Schaefer, 1976). Positive or mixed support of consistency has been reported (Foster & Gade, 1973;Gottfredson, 1977;Holland, 1968;Holland, Sorensen, Clark, Nafziger, & Blum 1973;Nafziger, Holland, Helms, & McPartland, 1974;O'Neil, 1976O'Neil, ,1977O'Neil & Magoon, 1977). The construct of consistency needs more examination and clarification (Holland, 1973(Holland, ,1976, and Dolliver and Hansen (1977) suggest that clients may wish to talk with counselors about the meaning of inconsistent codes.…”

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Status of Holland's Investigative personality types and their consistency levels seven years later.

O’Neil¹,

MAGOON²,

Tracey³

1978

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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This study assessed the predictability of Holland's Investigative personality and the three consistency levels over a 7-year period. A sample of male Investigative subjects (N = 95) who completed the Self-Directed Search (SDS) as college freshmen in 1970 were sent a questionnaire 7 years later. The questionnaire gathered information about the subjects' educational and occupational situations including present occupation, educational status, ideal career choice, and projected career in 1982. Hypotheses concerned the predictability over a 7-year period of (a) one-, two-, and three-letter SDS and most recent daydream codes and (b) Holland's diagnostic sign of consistency. Results indicated that for Investigative-type males, the SDS has moderately high efficiency in predicting, 7 years later, actual job entry, graduate major, and ideal and projected career plans. The differential predictability of Holland's three consistency levels was supported in 21 of the 24 tests applied. Future research is recommended on the predictiveness of other personality types and Holland's diagnostic schema. Implications of these findings for counseling as well as for future research are indicated.

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Status of Holland's Investigative personality types and their consistency levels seven years later.

O’Neil¹,

MAGOON²,

Tracey³

1978

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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“…Research on locus of control, for example, has shown that poor students tend to regard most of their personal outcomes (whether academic or not) as essentially uncontrollable (cf. Brown & Strickland, 1972;Foster & Gade, 1973;Prociuk & Breen, 1975). 1 Several studies have also demonstrated the influence of a selfserving bias on causal attributions for academic performance (cf.…”

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Academic achievement and self-evaluations of academic performance.

Moreland¹,

Miller²,

Laucka³

1981

Journal of Educational Psychology

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College students often make informal evaluations of their own course performance. Previous research has shown that the accuracy of these self-evaluations is correlated positively with actual course achievement; however, no one has yet explained why such a relationship exists. We hypothesized that poor students make less accurate performance evaluations because they know less about the criteria by which their work will be judged. To test that hypothesis, 52 students in an introductory psychology course graded their own work and that of others on both a midterm and a final examination and described their instructor's grading criteria on each occasion. As expected, poor students were less accurate than others at evaluating their own course performance. Poor and good students did not differ, however, in their ability to accurately evaluate the performance of others. The relative inaccuracy of the poor students' self-evaluations was not due to a lack of knowledge about the instructor's grading criteria, but instead involved a failure to apply those criteria to their own course work.

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“…. Other research, however, has supported such a construct (Foster & Gade, 1973;Nafziger, Holland, Helms, & McPartland, 1974;O'Neil & Magoon, 1977;O'Neil, Magoon, & Tracy, 1978). In addition, Holland has shown that the consistency of a student's personality pattern, as measured by the Vocational Preference Invent09 (VPI) profile, is positively related to the stability of a student's vocational choice or choice of a major field over I-to-4-year intervals (Holland, 1963(Holland, , 1968).…”

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Personality Consistency and Perceived Problem‐Solving Behavior and Attitudes: An Extension of Holland's Typology

Miller

Karriker

Pilgreen

1984

Journal of Employment Couns

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Locus of control, consistency of vocational interest patterns, and academic achievement.

Cited by 13 publications

References 8 publications

Status of Holland's Investigative personality types and their consistency levels seven years later.

Status of Holland's Investigative personality types and their consistency levels seven years later.

Academic achievement and self-evaluations of academic performance.

Personality Consistency and Perceived Problem‐Solving Behavior and Attitudes: An Extension of Holland's Typology

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