Geist Picture Interest Inventory

Geist Picture Interest Inventory

This test is widely used (nearly a million administered), especially with culturally different and educationally deprived individuals, to identify vocational and avocational interests. It requires a minimum of language because items ask the examinee to simply circle the one picture in a series of three that depicts the vocational or avocational scene he or she prefers.

The purposes of this inventory are to:

1) assess quantitatively eleven male and twelve female general interest areas;

2) identify motivating forces behind occupational choice;

3) provide an interest inventory for working with those having limited verbal abilities;

4) provide possible additional information through projective uses;

5) further research.

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