Abstract
Richaid (1969) gave the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey to experienced police officers and correlated their scores on the police officer scale with their scores on the other scales. He reported that scores on the police officer scale correlated most highly with scores on scales for semi-skilled jobs and least highly with scores on scales for social service jobs. The present paper reports data from the male state police recruits in a training academy class (n = 64; M,,, = 24.3, SD = 2.7) who graduated. Their scores on the police officer scale correlated (using product-moment correlations) most highly with scores on the scales for bricklayer ( 7 = 0.91), plumbing contractor (0.90), industrial supervisor (0.90), and television repairer (0.89), and least highly with scores on the scales for university pastor (0.37), interior decorator (0.37), librarian (0.42), and clinical psychologist (0.43). Scores on the police officer scale were also correlated with scores on the scales recommending college majors. Scores on the police officer scale correlated most highly with scores on the scales for animal husbandry (0.82), agriculture (0.81), physical education (0.81 ) , and civil engineering (0.78), and least highly with scores on the scales for English (O.11), art and art education (0.14), foreign languages (0.24), and music and music education (0.28). These results confirm those reported by Richard (1969). They also are congruent with data from these officers indicating that the most suitable college major for them was physical education and the most suitable jobs were ( in order) physical therapist, police officer, civil engineer, mechanical engineer, and bricklayer (Lester, 1979).
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