Using the Strong Vocational Interest Blank and the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey, Form DD, with the same clients.

Questions were raised about the methodology used in earlier studies comparing similarly named scales on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) and the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (018), Form DD. Correlations between SVIB standard scores and OIS ranks for 51 pairs of scales were compared with previously reported correlations between SVIB standard scores and OIS lambda scores. Coefficients computed from OIS ranks were significantly higher (p < .05) for 27 scale pairs and significantly lower for 5 scale pairs when compared with coefficients computed from lambda scores. No significant differences were found for 19 pairs of scales. The implications for further studies comparing the two inventories were discussed.Recent studies have reported low correlations between similarly named scales on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB), Form T399, and the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (OIS), Form DD (O'Shea & Harrington, 1971;Wilson & Kaiser, 1968;Zytowski, 1968). O'Shea and Harrington found that many SVIB scales were more highly related to a number of dissimilar scales on the OIS than to their counterparts. Because of these findings and the discrepancies noted by Williams, Kirk, and Frank (1968) between the old and revised forms of the SVIB, counselors have been advised to exercise extreme caution in using these inventories, either together or separately, in vocational counseling.Differences between the normative groups, item formats, and scoring procedures for the two inventories have all been cited as possible reasons for the low correlations observed. A difference that has been ignored in previous studies is the varied in-1 Requests for reprints should be sent to Roman Carek, Counseling Center, 320 Student Services Buliding,

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Another look at the relationships between similar scales on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank and Kuder Occupational Interest Survey.

Carek¹

1972

“…Comparisons between scales on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB), Form T-399, and the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (KOIS), Forms D and DD, sometimes show confusing results. Correlational studies comparing all scales on the SVIB and the KOIS, Form D (King & Powers, 1963), and the SVIB and KOIS, Form DD (O'Shea & Harrington, 1971), showed many low correlations between same-named scales and sometimes higher correlations between scales that were obviously different. Correlational studies between only same-named scales corroborated the findings cited above (Wilson & Kaiser, 1968;Zytowski, 1968).…”

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High scales on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank and the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey using Holland's occupational codes.

Westbrook¹

1975

This study compared the arrays of high-interest occupations produced by the Strong Vocational Interest Blank, T-399, and the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey, Form DD, when the instruments were administered to the same subjects. Holland-type summary codes were devised from the arrays of occupations and were analyzed by correlated t tests and Pearson r correlations. A frequency percentage count showed 85% of the pairs of summary codes had two identical characteristics, and some support was found for Holland's hexagon. The implications for further studies comparing the two instruments are discussed.

“…The comparability of scores on the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (OIS) and the Men's form of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) has been investigated by O'Shea and Harrington (1971), Wilson and Kaiser (1968), and Zytowski (1968). In each study, relatively low correlations (median rs -.25 to .39) were found between occupational interest scales bearing the same or similar names.…”

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Congruence of Strong and Kuder interest profiles.

Johnson¹

1971

Scores on scales with identical or similar names on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank for Women and the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey were compared by means of both scale and profile analyses for 135 female students majoring in physical therapy. The individual scales were only moderately intercorrelated (median r = .31 to .34); however, the total profiles (based upon 21 matched scales) revealed substantial agreement (median r=.71) for most subjects. The latter results are probably more meaningful for counselors. The different findings were attributed to differences in test standardization procedures. Cases of profile discrepancy were marked by relatively careless or insincere test responses, fewer common interests, less pronounced interests in major field, and higher Imagination scores on the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire.