Vocational Identity, Personality, and Preferred Mode of Interest Inventory Feedback

Abstract

The authors examined a recently developed Scale of Vocational Identity (Holand, Daiger & Power, 1980b) in relation to selected personality variables from the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) and preference for interest inventory feedback modes involving varying levels of counselor contact (profile only, audio tape, direct contact). Ninety-two participants took the identity scale, and a subgroup of 46 took the CPI. Within limitations, the results suggest that high identity subjects report higher levels of capacity for status and sense of well-being than low identity subjects, but no relationship was found between identity and treatment preference. The majority of subjects (regardless of level of identity) however, preferred the direct contact with counselor treatment. The results add some meaning to the concept of vocational identity but do not reveal significant attribute/treatment interactions.