John L. Holland

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  The senior award winners include Michael Gazzaniga, Janellen Huttenlocher, Hazel Rose Markus, and John Holland.
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  John L. Holland, Emeritus Professor, Johns Hopkins University.Holland is being honored for his contributions to vocational psychology and personality research.
  
  Holland is best known for his theory of vocational personalities and work environments.His research found that people are most likely to enter and persist in occupations congruent with their personality profile.He is the author of several instruments widely used among high school and college populations and others who are searching for an occupation,the Holland Self-Directed Search and the Holland Vocational Preference Inventory.

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  Charles Howland, the parent of one of Conklin's successful patients, gave his brother John a gift of $5000 to study "the ketosis of starvation".
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  As professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital, John Howland used the money to fund research undertaken by neurologist Stanley Cobb and his assistant William G. Lennox.

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  *John L. Holland, PhD, Department of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University

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  These closely reflect the vocational researcher, John Holland's findings, with large quantified samples, about occupational interest themes and organizational cultures, which focused on six themes.

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  Retired Johns Hopkins University professor John Holland enjoys his career of examining the occupational options of others; he recently finished revisions on the third edition of "Making Vocational Choices: A Theory of Vocational Personalities and Work Environments."The work, published by Psychological Assessment Resources, first made its debut in 1959 with another publisher.Since then, it has been updated several times.
  
  Holland, 77, retired from what is now the Sociology Department in 1980, but he has hardly stopped working."This book is my sixth attempt to create a more satisfying theory of careers," he writes in the preface."I never seem to get it quite right."
  
  Holland's theory states that all people fit into one or more personality types: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising and conventional. (These are the basis for his RIASEC theory, which is widely used by career counseling professionals.) He applies the same six characteristics to work and home environments and says some outcomes can be determined by examining the combinations of personality types and environments.For example, professional choices and levels of achievement may be predicted, he says.
  
  PAR also publishes several varieties of evaluations titled Self-Directed Searches, including "The Occupations Finder," "You and Your Career" and "A Guide to Educational and Career Planning" that may accompany the book.
  
  Holland is convinced that students can be better prepared for professional lives if they evaluate their strengths and weaknesses.His Self-Directed Search forms, which have also been adapted for those with reading and learning difficulties, include statements such "I understand the 'Big Bang' theory of the universe" and "I can refinish furniture or woodwork."Participants then total the number of statements with which they agree and interpret the findings on their own.
  
  "The techniques are childlike they're so simple," Holland says."Personality and interest inventories are kind of an interview about life histories."
  
  While some may balk at being pigeonholed into one of six areas, Holland says inevitably most people remain where they excel.
  
  "Certain changes are hard to make.The artistic types rarely seem to move.And the science types tend to stay there," he says."Some engineers frequently become entrepreneurs who are using their background."
  
  Holland believes the simplicity of his tests and theories is what makes them effective."Some scientists think that because this is so easy to understand, it can't amount to anything," he said."In science there is often a sales mission, though people don't like to admit that.In fact, anybody can get this message if they want it."
  
  Holland's own makeup includes artistic, social and investigative components."I've got a relatively flat profile, actually," he says."That makes you more versatile, complex and quite a bit confused."

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  John L. Holland began his career in the field of vocational counseling at Western Reserve University and with the Veterans Administration, later joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins University (Holland, 1999).In a 1959 journal article, he introduced his theory of personality types and work environments (Holland, 1959), which he elaborated in his subsequent book, Making Vocational Choices (Holland, 1973, 1985a, 1997).The heuristic value and empirical support of Holland's theory is unsurpassed in the field of vocational psychology (G. Gottfredson, 1999; L. Gottfredson and Richards, 1999).The theory's constructs have been operationalized in two self-report questionnaires, the Vocational Preference Inventory (Holland, 1967, 1985b) and the Self Directed Search (Holland, 1970; Holland, Fritzsche, & Powell, 1994), and have been applied more recently to the description and classification of jobs and occupations through the Dictionary of Holland Occupational Codes (G. Gottfredson & Holland, 1996; Gottsfredson, Holland, & Ogawa, 1982) and the Position Classification Inventory (G. Gottsfredson & Holland, 1991).
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  John L. Holland's contributions to vocational psychology: A Review and evaluation.Journal of Vocational Behavior, 55, 15-40.
  
  Gottfredson, G.D., & Holland, J.L. (1991).The Position Classification Inventory: Professional manual.Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.
  
  Gottfredson, G.D., & Holland, J.L. (1996).Dictionary of Holland occupational codes (3rd ed.). Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.
  
  Gottsfredson, G.D., Holland, J.L., & Ogawa, D.K. (1982).Dictionary of Holland occupational codes.Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.
  
  Gottsfredson, L.S., & Richards, J.M., Jr. (1999).The meaning and measurement of environments in Holland's theory.Journal of Vocational Psychology, 55, 57-73.
  
  Gove, P.B. (Ed.). (1968).Webster's third new international dictionary of the English Language: Unabridged.Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam Co.
  
  Hall, D. (2000, April 2).Colleges bank on science.The News and Observer, pp.1A, 16A, Raleigh, NC.
  
  Harvey, R.J. (1991a).The Common Metric Questionnaire (CMQ): A job analysis system.San Antonio, TX: Psychological Corporation.
  
  Harvey, R.J. (1991b).Job analysis.
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  Holland, J.L. (1959).A theory of vocational choice.Journal of Counseling Psychology, 6, 35-45.
  
  Holland, J.L. (1967).Manual for the Vocational Preference Inventory (6th rev.). Palo Alto,CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.
  
  Holland, J.L. (1970).The Self-Directed Search for career planning.Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.
  
  Holland, J.L. (1973).Making vocational choices: A theory of careers.Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
  
  Holland, J.L. (1985a).Making vocational choices: A theory of vocational personalities and work environments (2nd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
  
  Holland, J.L (1985b).Manual for the Vocational Preference Inventory (Rev. ed.). Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.
  
  Holland, J.L. (1997).Making vocational choices: A theory of vocational personalities and work environments (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
  
  Holland (1999).Resume.Journal of Vocational Behavior, 55, 5-14.
  
  Holland, J.L., Fritzsche, B.A., & Powell, A.B. (1994).The Self-Directed Search technical manual.Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.

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  Acceptance, at least initially, by such well-known pediatricians as L. Emmett Holt of Babies Hospital in New York and John Howland of Johns Hopkins served to strengthen the myth of "status thymico lymphaticus".

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  John Holland
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  John Holland
  
  John Holland is professor emeritus at John Hopkins university, and has spent much of his academic career researching career interests and the world-of-work.His practical ideas have supported many people through the transition from education to the workplace an also those in work develop greater career satisfaction by helping them make effective career choices.
  
  Holland's research has identified six career themes which can be used as a basis of classifying interests, personal preferences and workstyles:
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  In 1995 John Holland was presented with the Distinguished Contributions to Knowledge award from the American Psychological Association for his work on careers.
  
  Selected reading:
  
  Gottfredson, G. D. (1999).John L. Holland's Contributions to Vocational Psychology: A Review and Evaluation.Journal of Vocational Behaviour, 55(1), 14-40
  
  Holland, J. L. (1966) The Psychology of Vocational Choice: A Theory of Personality Types and Model and Environments.Waltham, Mass: Blaisdell.

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  John Holland was a psychologist and an Emeritus Professor at John Hopkins University.According to John Holland's theory, the majority of people are categorized into one of six personality, and work environment types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.John Holland believed that people seek to work in environments where their values, interests and abilities would be acknowledged.His claim was that behavior would be determined by the interaction between their personality type and the characteristics of the environment.He believed individual's who needed help with regards to their career path, could best be supported by understanding their similarities to the six personality types.

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  John L. Holland, the counseling psychologist whose theory and research is the foundation of many ideas found in this site and career counseling, in general;

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