Proposes the "congruence model" as a theoretical framework for assessing the effects on organizational behavior of changes based on modern electronic technology. The nature and causes of resistance, encroachment on professional judgement, and unwillingness to deviate from standard practice when using online systems are discussed. Sixteen…

A measure of the congruence between educational needs and opportunities was administered to 103 community mental health workers and scores were correlated with a measure of job satisfaction. Persons with unmet training needs were significantly more dissatisfied with their jobs. (SK)

Couples experiencing marital discord also experienced less congruity in their perceptions. Even when subjects were matched randomly into husband-wife pairs, the marital discord subjects were less homogeneous in their perceptions. The groups also differed in their defensive styles, with a sensitizing style more associated with marital discord.…

Confirms Holland's congruence hypothesis within the context of interoccupational differences. The higher the engineer's preference for the job function which dominates his present job, the higher his job satisfaction. The present inventory describes best fit between engineer and job in different career development stages. (Author/JAC)

Using a 10-year longitudinal study, examined the relative strength of objective, subjective, and congruency variables as predictors of life satisfaction among low-income rural youth (N=322). Results show that support was provided for variables representing all three types of life satisfaction predictors, especially subjective variables such as…

Responses from 503 students in Virginia high schools with marketing programs using the Self-Image Congruence model and Bass-Talarzyk model showed that student attitudes toward marketing were more closely related to its tangible attributes than its symbolic attributes. Significant tangible and symbolic attributes could be used to develop a…

Reviewed cases of 103 couples seen in systems-oriented marital therapy to identify outcome and treatment issues as a function of marital paradigm. Found 92 percent of the 38 cases where both partners identified with the same basic paradigm were judged to be treatment successes, while only 60 percent of the cases with different paradigms were…

After 4-6 months of employment in either "enterprising" or "social" bank branches, 95 bank tellers completed Holland's Self-Directed Search and a satisfaction inventory. Findings supported a positive correlation between congruence and job satisfaction and between congruence and supervisors' evaluations but only when congruence…

Comparison of self- and others' ratings of 335 managers' job performance found moderately low agreement between the two. Managers consistently reported practicing specific skills more frequently than raters' feedback showed, across 20 management practices areas. (SK)

Examined incongruencies between spouses' sex-role attitudes and division of family work and links with marital evaluations and family characteristics. Findings from 153 couples revealed that wives with nontraditional sex-role attitudes but traditional family work roles and husbands with traditional attitudes but egalitarian roles evaluated…

The 51 occupations pursued by 3,612 college graduates were located throughout Holland's hexagon by weighting scores from the Unisex Edition of the ACT Interest Inventory. A Hexagon Congruence Index developed to measure person-occupation congruence can be used with any combination of Holland types. (SK)

Investigated referral question bias on school psychologists' classification decisions across different types of cases. Findings from 175 school psychologists who classified 5 case studies on basis of scores from intelligence, achievement, and behavioral measures revealed lack of congruence among respondents' classification decisions that was more…

The Salient Beliefs Review is an instrument that examines seven dimensions (change, balance, energy, community, calling, harmony, and unity) in relation to behavior and workplace policies and practices. It can be used to measure the degree of congruence between individual beliefs and the perception of company policy and practices. (SK)

Principles of Adult Learning Scale was administered to 12 adult basic education teachers and 189 General Educational Development (GED) students at a technical school. Learning style appeared to change with age and experience. Although congruent teaching and learning styles usually improve achievement, educational purpose, such as GED completion,…

A research review supports the validity of the person-environment fit (PEF) model in vocational psychology; however, sampling inadequacies have influenced results. One PEF example, Holland's hexagonal model, is unsupported due to lack of commensurate measurement; most hexagonal congruence indices are invalid. (Contains 110 references.) (SK)