The Michigan vocational preference list

Abstract

To study any differences which might be brought about by grouping the items of a vocational interest schedule into occupational divisions rather than arranging them alphabetically as is the custom, 181 vocational preference items were selected and arranged in both fashions. When the items were grouped the test-retest reliability was .89 as compared with .76 for the ungrouped form. The two forms showed no significant differences in the distribution of responses, the correlation between the two forms being .83. In some of the occupational divisions of the grouped form there was some evidence of halo effects, but these were slight. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)