The important thing to remember is that we want our students and clients to indicate on the Strong the gender with which they identify. As I discussed in the recent CPP Webinar, the Strong is reliable and valid for use with all our clients. This is (thankfully!) a question that is being asked more and more in the Strong Certification Program I teach as well as in the Strong Practitioners LinkedIn group. QUESTION #2: “How does the Strong apply to gay, trans and queer clients?!!?”
Take a peek and you will see the scales where men and women are similar to each other, as well as those where the results are different. 59, provides a great summary of the average scores for men and women for all the GRS normed scales and Appendix B has the coding of the Occupational Scales for each gender.
STRONG INTEREST INVENTORY SAMPLE QUESTIONS CODE
SEC is the code for Female Dietitians, suggesting that they are motivated to help others (S) through influence or persuasion (E) in structured and practical ways (C).Īppendix D of the Strong Interest Inventory User’s Guide (CPP, Inc., 2012), p. Male Dietitians are coded IES, which suggests that they are motivated by using research and ideas (I) to influence or persuade others (E) in ways that will be helpful (S). Men and women are very different on this theme as 10-points (1 Standard Deviation, for those readers who love statistics) is a really big spread and indicates quite a significant difference!Īs for the Occupational Scales, the coding of the OSs shows us how the personalities of men and women who do these jobs can really differ. For example, here are just some of the differences on the Strong between men and women:ĭid you know that men have an average score of 55 on Realistic?Īnd that women score, on average, 45 on Realistic?
Every time the Strong is updated and re-normed the research shows that although men and women share a great deal in common, they continue to come up differently on enough of the scales to warrant separate gendered results. The Strong is normed on a General Representative Sample (GRS), reflecting a diverse sample of 2,250 workers in the United States. The reason we are asked to indicate our gender when we take the Strong is that the publisher of the Strong ( CPP, Inc.) and its researchers want to be sure that we each receive the information that is most accurate for us, based on the gender with which we identify. The Strong is and has always been, about the empirical research. It was only decades later when I studied the Strong in my counseling program and then later became a Strong Certified Practitioner that I understood: The Strong is all about the data.Īs long as statistically significant differences are found in how men and women take the Strong Interest Inventory, the Strong will continue to provide gendered information on the results. As a Title IX girl, I felt like someone was trying to put me into a box. Back in the 70s when I first took the Strong Interest Inventory, I remember being a bit offended that my gender seemed to matter. I get this question all the time, and I can absolutely see why people might ask.
QUESTION #1: “Why does the Strong still use gendered reports?!!?” Written by Cheryl Hollatz-Wisely, MEd, Lead Trainer, GS Consultants Gender and the Strong Interest Inventory®: Two of the Most Common Questions
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