A comparison of interests, abilities, and attitudes.

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Graduate students of education show different types of interest profiles according to their various professional positions. With one group of students studying mental testing, intelligence correlates negatively with economic and positively with social interests. Among those considered as the best prospective school psychologists are found high social and low political and economic interests. The reverse is true of those considered least well-fitted for school psychologists. A high score in social interests may be one of the desirable qualities in those planning to become mental examiners. Among this group of students, theoretical interests tend to accompany liberal attitudes with reference to religion, war and the negro; whereas political and economic interests seem to go with a more conservative attitude toward these problems. It may be possible by a judicious use of interest and attitude scales to supplement intelligence and achievement tests in giving vocational advice to students. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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