Predicting from expressed vocational choice: a review

Douglas R. Whitney

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Information on the predictive validity of expressed vocational choice was gathered in a review of large‐sample longitudinal studies. These results indicate that, in general, a person's expressed vocational choice predicts his future employment about as well as interest inventories or combinations of personality and background characteristics. Expressed vocational and educational field choices are moderately stable over one‐ to five‐year periods during and after college. Difficulties and shortcomings in past research are discussed, and recommendations are made for future research on the predictive validity of expressed choice. Implications of these results for the practicing counselor are also considered.

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