Interests
Six kinds of work that give energy rather than take it, and the shape they make together.
- Questions
- 36
- 5 min
- Holland's RIASEC hexagon
What this is
Holland's six interest types and the hexagon they sit on are public, and freely available item pools exist — the Liao, Armstrong and Rounds markers, and the US Department of Labor's Interest Profiler. These items are written fresh against the same six definitions, and they ask about activities rather than job titles: a job title carries a salary, a status and a stereotype along with the work, and people answer about those instead.
Where it comes from
written down, not impliedHolland's RIASEC hexagon
John Holland's six interest types and their hexagon date from 1959 onwards and are public. Freely available item pools exist; the items here are still written fresh.
Written for this app
- Reliability
- not measured
- Factor structure
- not measured
- Validity
- not measured
Further reading
- Holland, J. L. (1959). A theory of vocational choice (opens in a new tab). Journal of Counseling Psychology, 6(1), 35–45original source
- Holland, J. L. (1997). Making vocational choices: A theory of vocational personalities and work environments (3rd ed.) (opens in a new tab). Psychological Assessment Resources, Odessa, FLoriginal source
- Nauta, M. M. (2010). The development, evolution, and status of Holland's theory of vocational personalities: Reflections and future directions for counseling psychology (opens in a new tab). Journal of Counseling Psychology, 57(1), 11–22review
Read the result as a structured version of what you said, not as a measurement of you.
Why these questions carry no evidence
Every questionnaire in this app writes its own items, because the framework behind an instrument is usually public while the published questionnaire is copyrighted. That is the honest way to build it and it has a cost worth stating plainly: reliability and validity belong to a specific set of questions given to a specific group of people, not to the name of the idea behind them. These questions have never been given to a sample, have no norms, and have no evidence that they measure what they are named after.