Abstract
AbstractWe define interests as relatively stable psychological characteristics of people that identify the personal evaluation attached to particular groups of occupational or leisure activity clusters. After discussing theories of the development of interests, we present and discuss major measures of the construct, including the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (Strong Interest Inventory), the Campbell Interest and Skill Survey, the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey, the Unisex Edition of the ACT Interest Inventory, the Self‐Directed Search, the Vocational Preference Inventory, Johansson's measures, and the Interest‐Finder. We then discuss psychometric issues (reliability and validity) across these measures, as well as observed group differences in measured interests. We then examine the relationships between interests and other domains, especially personality and ability. We also discuss future directions for research.
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