Concurrent validity of the 2004 Strong Interest Inventory: an examination of gender and college major

To keep abreast of the advent of new occupations and majors, the 1994 Strong Interest Inventory (SII) was revised in 2004. This study examined the concurrent validity of the 2004 Strong Interest Inventory, primarily investigating the scales abilities to differentiate between different college majors for women. Discriminant analyses were used to examine the ability of the 41 scales of the SII to separate 31 college majors. Of the 41 scales, 39 scales were statistically significant in separating college majors for women. In addition, the utility of specific sets of scales and the cumulative ability of sets of SII scales to correctly classify women college majors was explored. Sets of scales investigated were the Personal Style Scales, the General Occupational Themes, and the Basic Interest Scales. Findings for the sets of scales indicated that the PSSs, the GOTs, and the BISs were all useful in discriminating between female college majors. Furthermore, support was found for the hypothesis that the Basic Interest Scales were the most powerful predictors of college major for women due to their specificity in measuring career interests. Also, when the statistical models generated for women were examined regarding their applicability for a male sample, the fit for men was good. The author concludes that the vocational interests of women and men have much similarity. Other interesting univariate and multivariate findings were explored

Convergence between the new California Psychological Inventory and the 1994 Strong Interest Inventory

The current study looked at the convergence between vocational interests and normal personality. The 1994 Strong Interest Inventory and the 2002 California Psychological Inventory-260 were used to look at the interests-personality overlap in a college sample of N =210. Results showed that there was overlap for women and men in the Realistic interest domain in regards to personality scales, of which few Big Five studies have found relationships. However, the majority of relationships were found for women on interest domains of Artististic, Conventional, and Investigative, which provided further support for prior findings regarding overlap between Big Five personality and vocational interests. Future studies need to be done with these measures to replicate the current study\u27s results and look at how generalizable these results are to other populations

The role of personality in the selection of a major: With and without vocational self-efficacy and interests

The purpose of this study is to examine the role of personality traits measured by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ; Tellegen, 2000 and Tellegen and Waller, 2008) in selecting educational majors. Personality traits were examined alone, and with the combination of Holland’s hexagonal confidence domains, as measured by the general confidence themes (GCT) of the Skills Confidence Inventory (SCI; Betz, Borgen, & Harmon, 2005), and Holland’s interest domains, as measured by the general occupational themes (GOTs) of the 2005 Strong Interest Inventory (SII; Donnay, Morris, Schaubhut, & Thompson, 2005). Personality traits significantly contributed to the discrimination of nine educational major families in a sample of 368 undergraduate decided students. When the set of confidence and interest scales was added to the personality traits, the conservative jack knife hit rate was almost doubled

Concurrent validity of the 2004 Strong Interest Inventory: an examination of gender and college major

To keep abreast of the advent of new occupations and majors, the 1994 Strong Interest Inventory (SII) was revised in 2004. This study examined the concurrent validity of the 2004 Strong Interest Inventory, primarily investigating the scales abilities to differentiate between different college majors for women. Discriminant analyses were used to examine the ability of the 41 scales of the SII to separate 31 college majors. Of the 41 scales, 39 scales were statistically significant in separating college majors for women. In addition, the utility of specific sets of scales and the cumulative ability of sets of SII scales to correctly classify women college majors was explored. Sets of scales investigated were the Personal Style Scales, the General Occupational Themes, and the Basic Interest Scales. Findings for the sets of scales indicated that the PSSs, the GOTs, and the BISs were all useful in discriminating between female college majors. Furthermore, support was found for the hypothesis that the Basic Interest Scales were the most powerful predictors of college major for women due to their specificity in measuring career interests. Also, when the statistical models generated for women were examined regarding their applicability for a male sample, the fit for men was good. The author concludes that the vocational interests of women and men have much similarity. Other interesting univariate and multivariate findings were explored.</p

Convergence between the new California Psychological Inventory and the 1994 Strong Interest Inventory

The current study looked at the convergence between vocational interests and normal personality. The 1994 Strong Interest Inventory and the 2002 California Psychological Inventory-260 were used to look at the interests-personality overlap in a college sample of N =210. Results showed that there was overlap for women and men in the Realistic interest domain in regards to personality scales, of which few Big Five studies have found relationships. However, the majority of relationships were found for women on interest domains of Artististic, Conventional, and Investigative, which provided further support for prior findings regarding overlap between Big Five personality and vocational interests. Future studies need to be done with these measures to replicate the current study's results and look at how generalizable these results are to other populations.</p

Male and Female College Students’ Educational Majors: The Contribution of Basic Vocational Confidence and Interests

The first purpose was to determine if overall gender differences in basic confidence as measured by the Expanded Skills Confidence Inventory (ESCI) and basic interests as measured by the 2005 Strong Interest Inventory (SII) would be present within eight college major families. As expected, anticipated overall gender differences in confidence and interests concerning realistic and conventional activities were visible within the major families as well. The second purpose was to determine whether basic domains of confidence and interests would differentially discriminate among the eight major families differentially for 171 male and 176 female college students. When confidence and interests were examined separately, the set of confidence predictors and the set of interest predictors significantly differentiated among college majors for both men and women. When confidence and interests were combined together as two sets of predictors, the hit rate was a significant improvement over the hit rate for the confidence set of predictors alone for both women and men. As anticipated, group centroids and structure matrices varied across men and women.This is a manuscript of an article from Journal of Career Assessment 18 (2010): 16, doi: 10.1177/1069072709340520. Posted with permission.</p

TG-interacting factor 1 (Tgif1)-deficiency attenuates bone remodeling and blunts the anabolic response to parathyroid hormone

Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is used to treat osteoporosis, but its therapeutic mechanism remains unclear. Here, the authors show that Tgif1 is a PTH target gene, and that its deletion impairs the function of osteoblasts and PTH-induced bone formation in mice