The Meaning of Unpatterned Vocational Interests

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find the relationships between SVIB patterning and psychological adjustment, maturity, and intelligence. Male SVIB profiIes were categorized as Primaries, Secondaries, or No Patterns. The three groups were compared on MMPI scales, using a two-factor ANOVA; no differences between the groups were obtained at the .05 level of c o ddence. The groups were compared on age and aptitude scores, using in each case a simple ANOVA; no mean differences were obtained at the .05 level of confidence. Related research was reviewed and this study was found to be confirmed by several others. There is little support in the literature for the widely held belief that something is "wrong" with the client who has an unpatterned SVIB profile.HE RELATIONSHIP between personality T and vocational interest patterns is important for both applied and theoretical purposes. First, knowledge of this relationship would aid the counselor in interpreting unpatterned interests. For example, if it were found that clients with no interest patterns were more maladjusted than clients with interest patterns, a counselor might concentrate on matters of personal adjustment before dealing with the client's vocational uncertainty. Secondly, vocational interest theory requires that interest patterns be explained. Why do some clients have unpatterned vocational interests? Perhaps this lack of patterning LEO A. MUNDAY is

Personality characteristics of adult women with low and high profiles on the SCII or SVIB occupational scales.

“…Although many authorities have long advocated the need for research on low profiles, there have been very few empirical investigations of this problem during the past 50 years. Only 13 studies (Armstrong, 1975;Athelstan, 1967;Bernstein, 1954;Cooper, 1954;Crites, 1960;Cross, 1955;Deutscher, 1966;Eichsteadt, 1951;Frantz, 1972;Kasl, 1979;Munday, Braskamp, & Brandt, 1968;Scheller, 1968;Zytowski, 1965) were located that dealt directly with any aspect of low profiles. Of these, only Frantz and Kasl investigated women with low profiles.…”