Abstract
This study investigated student perceptions of occupational congruency using Holland's realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional personality and environment types. Four levels of person-environment congruency were established from the hexagonal ordering of the types. Student perceptions of congruent activities, values, interests, traits, and competencies were examined. It was hypothesized that (a) students would perceive congruency with types of occupations that corresponded to their personalities and (b) the amount of congruency perceived would parallel levels empirically derived from the hexagon. High school boys perceived congruency in activities, values, interests, and traits when occupations corresponded to their personality types. The highest level of congruency was perceived when person and environment types were identical. The hypotheses were not supported for girls.
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