Vocational interests of political scientists

Collected SVIBs from 177 male members of the Midwest Conference of Political Scientists. Their interests were most like those of psychiatrists and psychologists, public administrators and social workers, librarians and musicians, and lawyers and author-journalists. When compared with sociologists, political scientists had interests less like those of applied biological scientists, physical scientists, outdoors and skilled worker occupations, administrators, and businessmen. Similar differences were found between psychologists and political scientists.