Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between the Introversion-Extroversion Scale (IE) and the Occupational Scales of the 1985 Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII). The subjects were 153 female and 70 male career-counseling clients at a university counseling service. The results indicated that introversion was highly related to realistic and investigative occupations, and that extroversion was highly related to social and enterprising occupations. Also, the occupations which showed the greatest sex differences in IE tended to involve business interests, with the males being more extroverted than the females; it was suggested that males might enter business occupations at least in part to have their social needs met.
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