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ERIC Number: EJ889415
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Jun
Pages: 7
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0889-4019
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The Flip Side of Holland Type Congruence: Incongruence and Job Satisfaction
Dik, Bryan J.; Strife, Samantha Roberts; Hansen, Jo-Ida C.
Career Development Quarterly, v58 n4 p352-358 Jun 2010
This study examined the relationship between Holland type (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional; Holland, 1959, 1997) congruence and incongruence (i.e., lack of ft between an occupation's 3-letter Holland code and a person's lowest 3 Holland interest types) and tested whether incongruence predicts unique variance in satisfaction beyond congruence. Results from an employee sample suggest that incongruence and congruence are distinct constructs (in that they correlated r = -.32) and that beyond congruence, incongruence did not predict variance in overall or intrinsic job satisfaction. Counselors are urged to assess both congruence and incongruence, but to focus on helping clients to identify best-fitting occupations when possible, rather than to merely avoid incongruent occupations.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Minnesota
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Strong Interest Inventory
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