Vocational interests of women: A factor analysis of the women's form of the SVIB.

Farnsworth, Kirk E.

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“…With regard to the scientist-humanist differentiation in general (that is, as may be found in any area of study), research demonstrates that this differentiation represents two differing vocational interest patterns. Individuals interested in service work (toward individuals or society-the humanists) demonstrate significantly different (and in some instances, mutually exclusive) vocational interests than do those more interested in technical, scientific pursuits (Greaser, 1976;Farnsworth, 1969;Goodman, 1942;Holland, 1973;Holland, Krause, Nixon & Trembath, 1953;Kuder, 1951;MacPhail & Thompson, 1952;Nafziger & HelmSj 1974;Roe, 1953;Rounds & Dawis, 1979;Segal, 1961;Terman, 1954;Tyler, 1964). Those interested in the humanistic approach to life share vocational interests with, for example, ministers, teachers, artists, writers, and musicians, whereas those interested in science tend to share vocational interests with those interested in the formal study of things, such as laboratory technicians, laboratory scientists, and those interested in math and/or accounting.…”

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The Boulder Model: History, rationale, and critique.

Frank¹

1984

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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Although the current philosophy of education in clinical psychology allows for the existence oj a program of training clinical psychologists who primarily want to be practitioners in conjunction with the more traditional scientist-practitioner (Boulder Model) program, departments of psychology have been reticent to adopt two-track programs. Indeed, the controversy as to the heuristic value of the scientist-practitioner program versus the practitioner program continues. The criticism of the Boulder Model is that the rationale for requiring clinical psychology students to learn to do research as well as train to be clinicians was spurious; the Boulder Model trains students as researchers, a role that is incompatible with their interests and abilities. The history of the development of the Boulder Model was reviewed as were the data regarding the personality traits, interests, and abilities of people interested in research versus service work. These data indicate that the objections of the critics are well-founded.Most of us would agree that the scientist-practitioner model has not only served us well but has been enormously successful. (Strickland, 1983, p. 25) This assessment was made by the current president of the Division of Clinical Psychology. Strickland is not alone in her praise of the Boulder Model. Indeed, ever since the Boulder Conference (Raimy, 1950), when psychology gave public support for the scientist-practitioner model of training in clinical psychology, there have been many others who have expressed a similar positive sentiment-for example, the par-

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The Boulder Model: History, rationale, and critique.

Frank¹

1984

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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“…It was found in the responses of a great many women, particularly those who scored high on the nurse, housewife, physical education teacher, elementary teacher, and stenographer scales. Farnsworth (1969) studied the item responses to the SVIB-T400R of 67 1 womenin-general and identified 26 factors. Many of these factors are not directly oriented to vocations; rather they are concerned with homemaking and the feminine role.…”

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“…A study that, in essence, attempted to cross-validate the Hoyt and Kennedy study and the Wagman study was carried out by Gysbers, Johnston, and Gust (1968). They empirically identified women who they thought were career oriented or homemaker oriented on the basis of a majority of A or B+ ratings on scales that correlated either f0.50 (homemaker oriented) or -0.50 (career oriented) with the housewife scale.…”

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Measuring women's interests: how useful?

Huth

1973

The Personnel and Guidance Journal

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Vocational interest inventories such as the SVIB are inherently appealing to women who seek career counseling. How useful they are to the counselor is another question. T h e author reviews studies employing the SVIB-W conducted during the past decade i n order to answer such questions as: How reliable is the SVIB-W? H o w well does it differentiate interests? Can it effectively distinguish career co7nmitments.2 Is it a good predictor? T h e author's conclusion is that information, gained from this inventory is of minimal use in counseling women about careers. CAROL MONNIK HUTH is a graduate student, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Bryn M a w College,

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“…Cranny's (1967) analysis resulted in 15 group factors and 4 subgeneral factors. Farnsworth (1969) found 17 group factors and 9 subgeneral factors. Lorr and Suziedelis (1973) reported 14 "dimensions" and 4 higher level factors.…”

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“…Several investigators (Cranny, 1967;Farnsworth, 1969;Lorr & Suziedelis, 1973) devised methodologies similar to Campbell's (1971) to map the SVIB item domain. These approaches consisted basically of subgrouping the items according to their intercorrelations and of factor analyzing these item groups.…”

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Factor analysis of Strong Vocational Interest Blank items.

Rounds

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1979

Journal of Applied Psychology

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This study was undertaken to identify independent interest dimensions that were equivalent across different subject samples, as a first step toward mapping the vocational interest domain. The responses to 347 female form items and 357 male form items from the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) were obtained, using the appropriate form for the following five single-sex samples: women in general (n = 1,000), men in general (n = 1,000), female occupational (n -2,500), male occupational (n -3,600), and male rehabilitation client (n -1,874). Separately for each sample the SVIB items were intercorrelated, and the correlation matrices were factored by a principal axes technique, using the highest off-diagonal correlations as communality estimates with rotation to a varimax criterion. Factors between same-sex samples were compared using Tucker's coefficient of congruence. The analyses resulted in 11-13 factors, depending on the sample, of which 9 and 8 were judged to be equivalent across the two female and three male samples, respectively.

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Vocational interests of women: A factor analysis of the women's form of the SVIB.

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

The Boulder Model: History, rationale, and critique.

The Boulder Model: History, rationale, and critique.

Measuring women's interests: how useful?

Factor analysis of Strong Vocational Interest Blank items.

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