Holland-style measures of congruence: Are complex indices move effective predictors of satisfaction?

We explored the hypothesis that the greater the calculation complexity of a congruence index, the greater the likelihood that the index's scores predi ct level of job satisfaction. Five Holland-style congruence indices were co mputed for nine female and seven male occupational samples representing the six Holland types for each gender. Analyses for 12 samples did not identif y any significant correlations between satisfaction and congruence. For the remaining four occupations and the composite data set, one to three congru ence measures correlated significantly with satisfaction. Results indicated a very small relationship between congruence and satisfaction in these sam ples, which rendered immaterial comparisons of the efficacy of the congruen ce indices to predict satisfaction. Possible reasons for the small congruen ce-satisfaction correlations and other factors influencing satisfaction are discussed. (C) 1999 Academic Press.