Operationalize Interest Congruence: A Comparative Examination of Four Approaches

Although interest congruence is a cornerstone of career counseling, little is known about the relative importance of different operationalization approaches to interest congruence (i.e., how to calculate interest congruence). Using a sample of U.S. employees ( n = 303), the current study comparatively examined four profile-based conceptual congruence approaches, namely Euclidean distance, angular agreement, profile deviance, and profile...