The Michigan vocational preference list.

Career counsellors have long known that occupational interests are often linked with abilities. We also know that if one has the ability, but not the interest, that ability will not be used. What happens, however, when one has an interest but not the right temperament or personality? I recently had the pleasure of seeing someone for career counselling who fell in this latter category. This individual (let us call her Ms S) came to my rooms with one burning question on her lips: “What's wrong with me? Why can't I keep a job? I was in my past job for 4 weeks and the one before that for 3 weeks. How do I hang on to a job?” Ms S had a secretarial background. She had been fired from her previous positions and was concerned whether she had the capacity to continue working in this field or whether she had somehow become too slow. After obtaining some background information, I asked Ms S to complete a battery of career counselling tests. Of special interest to this case was the results from both the Vocational Preference Indicator (VPI) and the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF), which I shall discuss below.

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A visual nutrition preference list for preschool (NPL_4–6)

Appetite ◽

10.1016/j.appet.2014.12.025 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 89 ◽

pp. 308 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

N. Sommer ◽

M. Meindl ◽

J. Blechert ◽

T. Freudenthaler ◽

J. Hattinger ◽

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Keyword(s):

Preference List

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The factor structure of the Vocational Preference Inventory for black and white college students

Journal of Vocational Behavior ◽

10.1016/0001-8791(75)90017-2 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 15-18 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

B.Lee Yom ◽

Eugene B Doughtie ◽

Wei-Ning C Chang ◽

Herbert L Alston ◽

James A Wakefield

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Factor Structure ◽

Black And White ◽

Preference Inventory ◽

Vocational Preference ◽

White College

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Canonical Analysis of the Vocational Preference Inventory and the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1973.32.1.211 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 211-214 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

John D. Williams ◽

Constance M. Williams

Keyword(s):

Graduate Students ◽

Zero Order ◽

Canonical Analysis ◽

Personality Factor ◽

Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽

Sixteen Personality Factor ◽

Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽

Preference Inventory ◽

Vocational Preference

A canonical analysis was performed, relating the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire and the Vocational Preference Inventory. 145 male graduate students were Ss. Three significant canonical relationships were found. Most of the zero-order correlations were low; only 3 correlations (out of 176 possible correlations) were as large (positively or negatively) as .40.

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