Interrelationships among interests, life-history, and educational criteria.

Abstract

The relationship between measures of vocational interest, life history data, and two major educational criteria-performance and number of courses taken by area-was explored in a university sample of 1,900 students. Canonical correlation analysis was used to uncover and to describe the major relationships between the variable sets. The largest and most important dimension emerging was a general academic achievement dimension. Indices of variance overlap suggested that background data, rather than vocational interests, exhibited a stronger relationship with the educational criteria.