Presents and responds to questions the author would ask himself before meeting with a client whose Self-Directed Search he has reviewed. The client in the case is a 29-year-old female high school teacher faced with four occupational opportunities from which she is trying to make a choice. (MKA)

Using Holland's Self-Directed Search, compares the career interests of 28 adjudicated male adolescents with a normative high school male sample. The mean Artistic score of the adjudicated adolescents was significantly higher than the normative sample. The adjudicated sample showed poor differentiation and significantly higher intercorrelations…

Suggests counselors measure vocational interests with three inventories: Ramak Interest Inventory, Courses Interest Inventory, and Self-Directed Search. Discusses implications from studies on vocational congruence, environmental congruence, structure of occupational fields, and within-occupation congruence. Presents five defense mechanisms for…

Suggests that the principal conclusions in the earlier report regarding the relative effects and sex restrictiveness of norm-scored instruments and raw-scored instruments are not warranted by the study design. Alternative approaches and additional research are presented. (Author)

Describes investigation examining Bandura's concept of threshold. Results suggest general support for linear relationship between interest and self-efficacy. Contrary to prediction, plots suggest interest may be stable at lower levels of self-efficacy and may increase linearly at higher levels. Includes 18 citations. Discusses relationship to…