James Rounds
Biographic Data
| ID | 3884941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Rounds |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Rounds |
| SIGNATURE | ROUNDS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0014-1706 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Gender Differences in Vocational Interests Across 57 Countries: A Test of the Interest–Gender-Equality Paradox
Postmaterialist theory suggests that gender differences in vocational interests should be larger in more egalitarian countries, reflecting a counter-intuitive pattern called the “Gender-Equality Paradox.” By contrast, social role theory implies that gender differences in vocational interests should be smaller in more egalitarian countries as gender roles converge. Using multilevel analyses on data from 57 countries ( N = 109,460), we investigate …
Interests of the future: An integrative review and research agenda for an automated world of work
Job characteristics and personality change in young adulthood: A 12‐year longitudinal study and replication
OBJECTIVE: Personality changes are related to successfully performing adult occupational roles which require teamwork, duty, and managing stress. However, it is unclear how personality development relates to specific job characteristics that vary across occupations. METHOD: We investigated whether 151 objective job characteristics, derived from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), were associated with personality levels and changes in a …
Life goal development, educational attainment, and occupational outcomes: A 12-year, multisample longitudinal study
Life goals play a major role in shaping people's lives and careers. Although life goals have prior documented associations with occupational and other life outcomes, no prior studies have investigated associations between life goal development and occupational outcomes. Using two representative samples of Icelandic youth (Sample 1: n = 485, Sample 2: n = 1,339), followed across 12 years from adolescence to young adulthood, we examined life goal d…
Can everyone get interesting jobs? Estimating interest fit across gender, ethnicity, and education
Although research and policy efforts have attempted to “even the hiring playing field” and progress equal opportunities, systemic employment patterns based on gender and ethnicity remain prevalent. An unexplored avenue of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts is the degree to which all people can obtain jobs that fit their interests. The present study used a large, diverse sample of over 250,000 American employees to estimate the average vocat…
A meta-analysis of the relations between parental support and children's career self-efficacy in South Korea and the US
Why does the trait-state relation in vocational interests differ from that in personality? Exploring interest variability in daily life
Adolescent vocational interests predict early career success: Two 12‐year longitudinal studies
Vocational interests are relatively stable individual differences that can change across the lifespan. However, little is known about the importance of interest changes, relative to stable interest levels, for predicting career outcomes. This study assessed the long‐term predictive power of adolescent interest levels and interest growth for five career outcomes: degree attainment, occupational prestige, income, and career‐ and job‐satisfaction. T…
The effects of vocational interests on motivation, satisfaction, and academic performance: Test of a mediated model
Misfit matters: A re-examination of interest fit and job satisfaction
Vocational interest researchers have long held that individuals will be satisfied when their interests match the characteristics of their work environments. Yet, meta-analyses have found little relationship between interest fit and overall job satisfaction. Notably, studies underlying past meta-analyses shared common limitations. They rarely accounted for unique forms of misfit (environmental excess and deficiency) or differences between fit at l…
Career Development, Employment, and Disability in Rehabilitation: From Theory to Practice
Nature, Importance, and Assessment of Needs and Values
This chapter highlights recent career developments and focuses on major contributions to the study of values, the importance of work values in career development, work value assessment strategies, and the major work value measures used in career counseling and organizations. Several conceptual distinctions can be made between needs and values, but a close reading of the literature leads the reader to question some of these distinctions when appli…
Great expectations: Adolescents' intentional self-regulation predicts career aspiration and expectation consistency
Interest fit and job satisfaction: A systematic review and meta-analysis
How accurate are interest inventories? A quantitative review of career choice hit rates
Vocational interests have a rich history throughout the last century of psychological research, playing an influential role in fields such as personality, development, education, counseling, and organizational psychology. Yet interest measures are typically developed with the goal of matching people to careers, and there has never been a quantitative review of interests and career choice. The present meta-analysis examines the validity of interes…
The Roles of Personality Traits and Vocational Interests in Explaining What People Want Out of Life
Stability and change in vocational interests after graduation from high school: A six-wave longitudinal study
Vocational interests shape major life decisions and predict major life outcomes. Therefore, it is important to understand how vocational interests develop in young adulthood, a time when young people begin to make their own life decisions. In the present study, we investigated stability and change in vocational interests across a time span of 10 years, including the transition from high school to postsecondary education and the transition into th…
Developmental structure of personality and interests: A four-wave, 8-year longitudinal study
Personality traits and vocational interests capture different aspects of human individuality that intersect in certain ways. In this longitudinal study, we examined developmental relations between the Big 5 traits and RIASEC vocational interests over 4 timepoints from late adolescence to young adulthood (age 16-24) in a sample of Icelandic youth (N = 485) well-representative of the total student population. Results showed that interests and perso…
Vocational Interests in the Workplace: Rethinking Behavior at Work
Normative changes in interests from adolescence to adulthood: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies
Perception of Subtle Racism: The Role of Group Status and Legitimizing Ideologies
Identifying contemporary racism has been problematic as this type of racism, namely subtle racism, is difficult to discern, and the actions in question can be easily justified by other causes. The present study examined how group status and legitimizing ideologies predict perception of subtle racism. White (high status) and Black (low status) college students completed measures of legitimizing ideologies. Later, they watched a video clip on an am…
All STEM fields are not created equal: People and things interests explain gender disparities across STEM fields
The degree of women's underrepresentation varies by STEM fields. Women are now overrepresented in social sciences, yet only constitute a fraction of the engineering workforce. In the current study, we investigated the gender differences in interests as an explanation for the differential distribution of women across sub-disciplines of STEM as well as the overall underrepresentation of women in STEM fields. Specifically, we meta-analytically revie…
Vocational Interests and Performance: A Quantitative Summary of Over 60 Years of Research
Despite early claims that vocational interests could be used to distinguish successful workers and superior students from their peers, interest measures are generally ignored in the employee selection literature. Nevertheless, theoretical descriptions of vocational interests from vocational and educational psychology have proposed that interest constructs should be related to performance and persistence in work and academic settings. Moreover, on…
Stability and change in work values: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies
Men and things, women and people: A meta-analysis of sex differences in interests
Men and things, women and people: A meta-analysis of sex differences in interests
Evaluating Holland's and Gati's vocational-interest models: A structural meta-analysis
and Implications Gati's (1991) conclusion that Holland's model was flawedand that his own three-g'roup-partition model of RIASEC typeswas superior is questionable on both empirical and logicalgrounds. To the contrary, we found considerable support for thesuperiority of Holland's model. The results of the three separateanalyses, each examining Gati's and Holland's models fromvarying perspectives, provide evidence of the superiority ofHolland's mod…
Perception of Subtle Racism: The Role of Group Status and Legitimizing Ideologies
Identifying contemporary racism has been problematic as this type of racism, namely subtle racism, is difficult to discern, and the actions in question can be easily justified by other causes. The present study examined how group status and legitimizing ideologies predict perception of subtle racism. White (high status) and Black (low status) college students completed measures of legitimizing ideologies. Later, they watched a video clip on an am…
A Meta-Analysis of Massage Therapy Research
Stability and change in vocational interests after graduation from high school: A six-wave longitudinal study
Vocational interests shape major life decisions and predict major life outcomes. Therefore, it is important to understand how vocational interests develop in young adulthood, a time when young people begin to make their own life decisions. In the present study, we investigated stability and change in vocational interests across a time span of 10 years, including the transition from high school to postsecondary education and the transition into th…
Developmental structure of personality and interests: A four-wave, 8-year longitudinal study
Personality traits and vocational interests capture different aspects of human individuality that intersect in certain ways. In this longitudinal study, we examined developmental relations between the Big 5 traits and RIASEC vocational interests over 4 timepoints from late adolescence to young adulthood (age 16-24) in a sample of Icelandic youth (N = 485) well-representative of the total student population. Results showed that interests and perso…
Why does the trait-state relation in vocational interests differ from that in personality? Exploring interest variability in daily life
The Roles of Personality Traits and Vocational Interests in Explaining What People Want Out of Life
Nuclear Locus of Control Scales: Information on Development, Reliability, and Validity
Three Nuclear Locus of Control (NLOC) scales based on ideas presented by Levenson (1981) and Lefcourt (1982) are described, and data on their reliability, validity, and factor structure are reported. Three scales were constructed to assess beliefs about whether nuclear war and nuclear policy decisions are, or can be, influenced by oneself (system control), powerful others, or chance. Based on the responses of 475 students, a factor analysis of NL…
Evaluating Holland's and Gati's vocational-interest models: A structural meta-analysis
and Implications Gati's (1991) conclusion that Holland's model was flawedand that his own three-g'roup-partition model of RIASEC typeswas superior is questionable on both empirical and logicalgrounds. To the contrary, we found considerable support for thesuperiority of Holland's model. The results of the three separateanalyses, each examining Gati's and Holland's models fromvarying perspectives, provide evidence of the superiority ofHolland's mod…
Examination of the General Factor with the Interpersonal Circumplex Structure: Application to the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems
The relation of the general factor of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP, Horowitz, Rosenberg, Baer, Ureno, & Villasenor, 1988) to several response set and personality measures as well its relation to the circumplex structure was examined. The correlation of the IIP general factor to the personality and response measures was examined on a sample of 105 undergraduates. The general factor was significantly related to a symptom severity me…
Universality of vocational interest structure among racial and ethnic minorities
Universality of vocational interest structure among racial and ethnic minorities
A Meta-Analysis of Massage Therapy Research
The Stability of Vocational Interests From Early Adolescence to Middle Adulthood: A Quantitative Review of Longitudinal Studies
The present meta-analysis examined the stability of vocational interests from early adolescence (age 12) to middle adulthood (age 40). Stability was represented by rank-order and profile correlations. Interest stability remained unchanged during much of adolescence and increased dramatically during the college years (age 18-21.9), where it remained for the next 2 decades. Analyses of potential moderators showed that retest time interval was negat…
Men and things, women and people: A meta-analysis of sex differences in interests
Vocational Interests and Performance: A Quantitative Summary of Over 60 Years of Research
Despite early claims that vocational interests could be used to distinguish successful workers and superior students from their peers, interest measures are generally ignored in the employee selection literature. Nevertheless, theoretical descriptions of vocational interests from vocational and educational psychology have proposed that interest constructs should be related to performance and persistence in work and academic settings. Moreover, on…
Stability and change in work values: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies
All STEM fields are not created equal: People and things interests explain gender disparities across STEM fields
The degree of women's underrepresentation varies by STEM fields. Women are now overrepresented in social sciences, yet only constitute a fraction of the engineering workforce. In the current study, we investigated the gender differences in interests as an explanation for the differential distribution of women across sub-disciplines of STEM as well as the overall underrepresentation of women in STEM fields. Specifically, we meta-analytically revie…
Perception of Subtle Racism: The Role of Group Status and Legitimizing Ideologies
Identifying contemporary racism has been problematic as this type of racism, namely subtle racism, is difficult to discern, and the actions in question can be easily justified by other causes. The present study examined how group status and legitimizing ideologies predict perception of subtle racism. White (high status) and Black (low status) college students completed measures of legitimizing ideologies. Later, they watched a video clip on an am…
Normative changes in interests from adolescence to adulthood: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies
Vocational Interests in the Workplace: Rethinking Behavior at Work
Career Development, Employment, and Disability in Rehabilitation: From Theory to Practice
Nature, Importance, and Assessment of Needs and Values
This chapter highlights recent career developments and focuses on major contributions to the study of values, the importance of work values in career development, work value assessment strategies, and the major work value measures used in career counseling and organizations. Several conceptual distinctions can be made between needs and values, but a close reading of the literature leads the reader to question some of these distinctions when appli…
Great expectations: Adolescents' intentional self-regulation predicts career aspiration and expectation consistency
Interest fit and job satisfaction: A systematic review and meta-analysis
How accurate are interest inventories? A quantitative review of career choice hit rates
Vocational interests have a rich history throughout the last century of psychological research, playing an influential role in fields such as personality, development, education, counseling, and organizational psychology. Yet interest measures are typically developed with the goal of matching people to careers, and there has never been a quantitative review of interests and career choice. The present meta-analysis examines the validity of interes…
The Roles of Personality Traits and Vocational Interests in Explaining What People Want Out of Life
Stability and change in vocational interests after graduation from high school: A six-wave longitudinal study
Vocational interests shape major life decisions and predict major life outcomes. Therefore, it is important to understand how vocational interests develop in young adulthood, a time when young people begin to make their own life decisions. In the present study, we investigated stability and change in vocational interests across a time span of 10 years, including the transition from high school to postsecondary education and the transition into th…
Developmental structure of personality and interests: A four-wave, 8-year longitudinal study
Personality traits and vocational interests capture different aspects of human individuality that intersect in certain ways. In this longitudinal study, we examined developmental relations between the Big 5 traits and RIASEC vocational interests over 4 timepoints from late adolescence to young adulthood (age 16-24) in a sample of Icelandic youth (N = 485) well-representative of the total student population. Results showed that interests and perso…
The effects of vocational interests on motivation, satisfaction, and academic performance: Test of a mediated model
Misfit matters: A re-examination of interest fit and job satisfaction
Vocational interest researchers have long held that individuals will be satisfied when their interests match the characteristics of their work environments. Yet, meta-analyses have found little relationship between interest fit and overall job satisfaction. Notably, studies underlying past meta-analyses shared common limitations. They rarely accounted for unique forms of misfit (environmental excess and deficiency) or differences between fit at l…
Adolescent vocational interests predict early career success: Two 12‐year longitudinal studies
Vocational interests are relatively stable individual differences that can change across the lifespan. However, little is known about the importance of interest changes, relative to stable interest levels, for predicting career outcomes. This study assessed the long‐term predictive power of adolescent interest levels and interest growth for five career outcomes: degree attainment, occupational prestige, income, and career‐ and job‐satisfaction. T…
Psychology (26 works) · Social Psychology (22 works) · Vocational education (15 works) · Career Development and Diversity (14 works) · Pedagogy (14 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Personality (7 works) · Big Five personality traits (6 works) · Applied Psychology (5 works)