TY - JOUR
T1 - Computer Versus Counselor Interpretation of Interest Inventories
T2 - The Case of the Self-Directed Search
AU - Gati, Itamar
AU - Blumberg, Dani
PY - 1991/7
Y1 - 1991/7
N2 - Interpretations of 100 career counselees' responses to the Self-Directed Search (SDS) were examined. The agreement between the scales (types) that were identified as relevant by the algorithm developed for this study and by 5 career counselors was as high as the agreement among the counselors (85%). The agreement between the counselors and Holland's 3-letter codes was lower (76%). In the 2nd study, insignificant correlations (r = .06 and -.03) were found between the counselors' judgments of the counselee's degree of interest crystallization and Holland's (1985a) measure of consistency, but their judgments were correlated (r = .41 and .45) with similarity within profile (an index of crystallization, Gati, 1985). In the 3rd study, various measures of the compatibility among the SDS's three major sections were found to be correlated with the counselor's judgements (.39 < r < .71). Implications for the interpretation of interest inventories are discussed.
AB - Interpretations of 100 career counselees' responses to the Self-Directed Search (SDS) were examined. The agreement between the scales (types) that were identified as relevant by the algorithm developed for this study and by 5 career counselors was as high as the agreement among the counselors (85%). The agreement between the counselors and Holland's 3-letter codes was lower (76%). In the 2nd study, insignificant correlations (r = .06 and -.03) were found between the counselors' judgments of the counselee's degree of interest crystallization and Holland's (1985a) measure of consistency, but their judgments were correlated (r = .41 and .45) with similarity within profile (an index of crystallization, Gati, 1985). In the 3rd study, various measures of the compatibility among the SDS's three major sections were found to be correlated with the counselor's judgements (.39 < r < .71). Implications for the interpretation of interest inventories are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1037/0022-0167.38.3.350
DO - 10.1037/0022-0167.38.3.350
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AN - SCOPUS:0000430076
SN - 0022-0167
VL - 38
SP - 350
EP - 366
JO - Journal of Counseling Psychology
JF - Journal of Counseling Psychology
IS - 3
ER -