EXAMINATION OF INTEREST INVENTORIES BASED ON ROES CLASSIFICATION

This article describes the adaptation of two interest inventories tran slated into English, based on Roe's (1956) classification of occupatio ns. In an analysis based on the responses of 181 participants, the ite ms followed the 6 rules for interest inventory items formulated by Mei r and Gati (1981). The Cronbach alpha reliability of the 8 field score s in the 2 inventories ranged between .73 and .91. A Smallest Space An alysis (SSA) on 8 field scores on the Ramak, 8 field scores on the Cou rses and 6 personality type scores on Holland's (1973) Vocational Pref erence Inventory (VPI) supported the construct validity of the invento ries.