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162 AERJ • VOLUME 4 • NUMBER 2 • MARCH 1967 HOLLAND, JOHN L. The Psychology of Vocational Choice. Waltham, Mass.: Blaisdell, 1966.132pp. (paper). $1.95 How does an individual come to select a particular career, what de termines whether he will experience satisfaction and prove to be satis factory in a career and why do certain types of persons tend to cluster in certain types of careers? These and related questions have been the subject of a small but growing number of theorists and researchers. John Holland has been exploring for several years relationships be tween personality types, environmental characteristics, college majors and career preferences. He along with others (e.g., Donald Super, David Tiedeman, Anne Roe, et al.) have theorized and have studied the com plex interactions between the individual as a personality and career environments, with primary emphasis on the individual. This emphasis has viewed the individual as someone who does not always exercise "true reasoning," consequently as someone who needs and acts upon far more than "the facts and figures" about particular jobs or patterns of interest via an interest inventory. The efforts of Holland and others have moved beyond concern with predicting occupational choice and have
American Educational Research Journal – SAGE
Published: Jun 24, 2016
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