Strong Vocational Interest Blank scores of high school seniors and their later occupational entry: II

Abstract

In order to study the predictive validity of the SVIB, 130 university graduates were identified who had received degrees in dentistry, mechanical engineering, architecture, or journalism, and who had taken the SVIB while seniors in high school. Interest scores and patterns of the 4 groups were compared and comparisons made between each of these 4 groups and 3 groups studied earlier. Each of the groups of graduates tended to obtain as high school seniors SVIB scores related to their later occupation and the relationships were both statistically and practically significant. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)