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Jo-Ida C. Hansen, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychology Education Ph.D., 1974, University of Minnesota |
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Statement of Interests
I wear three hats as a member of the faculty of the Counseling Psychology Area within the Department of Psychology. All of the positions involve directing something. First, I serve as Area Director of the Counseling Psychology Program. Second, I serve as Co-Director of the Vocational Assessment Clinic (VAC), and third, I direct the Center for Interest Measurement Research (CIMR). The Counseling Psychology Program responsibilities primarily involve administration. The VAC responsibilities include research and supervising the coordinator of the clinic and the counselors who see the VAC clients. The CIMR responsibilities involve research and overseeing 4 to 6 graduate students and 2 to 4 undergraduate students who participate on my research team.
My theoretical orientation for both research and training is heavily oriented towards the empirical tradition of the University of Minnesota Psychology Department and the Minnesota Point of View in counseling psychology which emphasizes individual differences, person-environment fit, and assessment. My research is designed a) to improve existing knowledge about the broad range of topics relevant to the development of interest measures and to career development and career-decision-making, and b) to provide data that are useful in the applied setting. I am co-author of the Strong Interest Inventory, served as principal investigator for the 1981 and 1985 revisions of the Strong, and I use the Strong to operationalize the construct of interests in almost all of my basic research. My program of research has focused on test development and scale construction; issues related to criterion sample composition and subject selection; sex differences and sex-fairness in interest measurement; career interests of collegiate women and men student-athletes; changes in interests within occupations as well as within society in general over the last five decades; effectiveness of interest inventories; basic research on the stability of interests and on the structure of vocational interests of ethnic minority populations; the relationship of serendipity to educational and career development; and the relation between vocational interests and personality.
Currently my research team is working on projects in various areas related to vocational psychology and occupational health. One project involves the development of an instrument to measure leisure interests. A second project explores variables, related to the work self and social self, that predict satisfactoriness and satisfaction. This project relies heavily on assessment of interests, abilities, values, and personality and on modeling based on the Theory of Work Adjustment. A third project is designed to understand the relationship between interests, personality and values and volunteerism to better understand who ultimately decides to participate in volunteer and prosocial activities. A fourth project, with data collection slated to begin in 2007, will explore the stability of vocational interests and the relationship between midlife personality and vocational interests using a longitudinal sample first studied in 1974. This project also will extend the work on moderators of P-E fit and satisfaction and development of the Leisure Interest Questionnaire.
Selected Publications
Hansen, Jo-Ida C., & Lee, W.V. (in press, 2006). Evidence of concurrent validity of SII scores for Asian American college students. Journal of Career Assessment.
Hansen, Jo-Ida C. (in press, 2006). Strong Interest Inventory. Chapter in N.J. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publication.
Hansen, Jo-Ida C., & Lee, W.V. (in press, 2006). Person-Vocation Fit. Chapter in S.G. Rogelberg (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publication.
Hansen, Jo-Ida C., & Zhou, S. (in press, 2006). Careers. Chapter in S.G. Rogelberg (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publication.
Hansen, Jo-Ida C., & Leuty, M.E. (in press, 2006). Career Development/Paths. Chapter in S.G. Rogelberg (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publication.
Hansen, Jo-Ida C. (2006). Leisure interests: The construct and assessment. Chapter in J. Greenhaus & G. Callanan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Career Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Leuty, M., & Hansen, Jo-Ida C. (2006). Bennett Mechanical Comprehension Test (BMCT). Chapter in J. Greenhaus & G. Callanan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Career Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Leuty, M., & Hansen, Jo-Ida C. (2006). The Minnesota Clerical Test (MCT). Chapter in J. Greenhaus & G. Callanan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Career Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Wilkinson, T., & Hansen, Jo-Ida C. (2006). The relationship among leisure interests, personality traits, affect, and mood. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 39, 31-41.
Hansen, J.C., & Dik, B. (2005). Evidence of 12-Year predictive and concurrent validity for SII occupational scale scores. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 67, 365-378.
Hansen, Jo-Ida C. (2005). Assessment of interests. Chapter 13 in S.D. Brown & R.W. Lent (Eds.), Career development and counseling: Putting theory and research to work. New York: Wiley & Sons.
Hansen, Jo-Ida C., & Stoever, S.K. (2004). Occupational choice. Chapter in C. Spielberger (Ed.), Encyclopedia of applied psychology. New York, NY: Elsevier Ltd.
Sullivan, B., & Hansen, Jo-Ida C. (2004). Mapping associations between interests and personality: Toward a conceptual understanding of individual differences in vocational behavior. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 51, 287-298.
Hansen, Jo-Ida C., Dik, B., & Sullivan, B. (2004). Using the Strong Interest Inventory with adult clients in an integrated model of career planning. Chapter 9 in R. Feller (Guest Editor), Using career assessment with adults [Special issue]. Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, 19, 80-95.
Sullivan, B., & Hansen, Jo-Ida C. (2004). Evidence of construct validity of the interest scales on the Campbell Interest and Skill Survey. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 65, 179-202.
Hansen, J. C., & Dik, B. (2004). Development and validation of discriminant functions for the Strong Interest Inventory. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 64, 182-197.
Hansen, J. C. (2004). Technology, collaboration, and better practice: The future of assessment in education and counseling. In J. E. Wall & G. H. Walz (Eds.), Measuring up: Assessment issues for teachers, counselors, and administrators, (pp. 649-656). Greensboro, NC: CAPS Press.
Hansen, J. C., & Sullivan, B. A. (2004). Assessment of workplace stress: Occupational stress, its consequences, and common causes of teacher stress. In J. E. Wall & G. H. Walz (Eds.), Measuring up: Assessment issues for teachers, counselors, and administrators, (pp. 611-622). Greensboro, NC: CAPS Press.
Hansen, J. C., & Conlon, A. L. (2004). Assessing students with serious mental health behavioral problems: Clinical assessment for educators. In J. E. Wall & G. H. Walz (Eds.), Measuring up: Assessment issues for teachers, counselors, and administrators, (pp. 197-211). Greensboro, NC: CAPS Press.
Conlon, A. L., & Hansen, J. C. (2004). Broadband and narrowband measures of mental and behavioral health: Counseling assessment for educators. In J. E. Wall & G. H. Walz (Eds.), Measuring up: Assessment issues for teachers, counselors, and administrators, (pp. 213-230). Greensboro, NC: CAPS Press.
Hansen, J. C., & Dik, B. (2004). Measures of career interests. Chapter in M. Hersen & J. Thomas (Eds.), Handbook of Psychological Assessment (vol. 4): Industrial/Organizational Assessment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley.
Pendergrass, L., Hansen, J. C., Neuman, J., & Nutter, K. (2003). Examination of the concurrent validity of scores from the CISS for student-athlete college major selections: A brief report. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 35, 212-217.
Hansen, J. C., & Scullard, M. (2002). Psychometric evidence for the Leisure Interest Questionnaire and analyses of the structure of leisure interests. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 49, 331-341.
Ton, M., & Hansen, J. C., (2001). Using a person-environment fit framework to predict satisfaction and motivation in work and marital roles. Journal of Career Assessment, 9, 315-331.
Hansen, J. C., Scullard, M.G., & Haviland, M. (2000). The interest structure of Native American college students. Journal of Career Assessment, 8, 159-165.
Hansen, J. C. (2000). Four counseling psychologist who define the specialty. The Counseling Psychologist, 28, 397-402.
Hansen, J. C. (2000). And when I was 17 I moved south... Chapter prepared for Past Reflections/Future Vision: Career Development Perspective from Minnesota's Best Known Experts. Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Counseling and Development Association.