The application of Holland's vocational model to the strong vocational interest blank for women

To pattern recent research on the Men's form of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB), six scales were developed for the Women's form that mapped the vocational model of Holland's interest theory. The scales were free of item overlap, and within each scale, the items intercorrelated highly positive and represented a wide range of popularity. Concurrent validity for the scales consisted of rank order mean scores for 91 female groups, primarily occupational samples used in construction of the occupational scales on the SVIB. The groups were arranged in a meaningful and common sense order on each of the six scales. These data were consistent with the correlations of the Holland-based scales with the basic interest scales and occupational scales now in existence.