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Overview

James Rounds is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences and psychology, with a substantive focus on areas such as safety research, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, education, and general health professions.

Their scholarly contributions cover a broad range of topics including career development and diversity, higher education and employability, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, employment and welfare studies, labor market dynamics and wage inequality, psychological and educational research studies, and personality traits and psychology.

Rounds has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Vocational Behavior
  • Journal of Career Assessment
  • Journal of Business and Psychology
  • Applied Psychology
  • Journal of Research in Personality

Their recent papers demonstrate ongoing engagement with vocational interests, job satisfaction, and career outcomes. Notable recent works include:

  • Interest fit and job satisfaction: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2020, Journal of Vocational Behavior)
  • How accurate are interest inventories? A quantitative review of career choice hit rates (2020, Psychological Bulletin)
  • The effects of vocational interests on motivation, satisfaction, and academic performance: Test of a mediated model (2021, Journal of Vocational Behavior)
  • Adolescent vocational interests predict early career success: Two 12-year longitudinal studies (2021, Applied Psychology)
  • Personality Changes Predict Early Career Outcomes: Discovery and Replication in 12-Year Longitudinal Studies (2020, Psychological Science)

Collaborative work features frequent coauthors such as Kevin A. Hoff, Alexis Hanna, Sif Einarsdóttir, Chu Chu, and Frederick L. Oswald, indicating a networked research approach and interdisciplinary connections.

Best Publications

  • Men and things, women and people: A meta-analysis of sex differences in interests.

    Rong Su;James Rounds;Patrick Ian Armstrong

  • A meta-analysis of massage therapy research.

    Christopher A. Moyer;James Rounds;James W. Hannum

  • HIGHER‐ORDER DIMENSIONS OF THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS AND THE BIG SIX VOCATIONAL INTEREST TYPES

    Michael K. Mount;Murray R. Barrick;Steve M. Scullen;James Rounds

  • The stability of vocational interests from early adolescence to middle adulthood: a quantitative review of longitudinal studies.

    K. S. Douglas Low;Mijung Yoon;Brent W. Roberts;James Rounds

  • Vocational Interests and Performance: A Quantitative Summary of Over 60 Years of Research

    Christopher D. Nye;Rong Su;James Rounds;Fritz Drasgow

  • Evaluating Holland's and Gati's Vocational-Interest Models: A Structural Meta-Analysis

    Terence J. Tracey;James B. Rounds

  • All STEM fields are not created equal: People and things interests explain gender disparities across STEM fields.

    Rong Su;James Rounds

  • Cross-cultural structural equivalence of RIASEC models and measures

    James Rounds;Terence J. Tracey

  • Measurement of person-environment fit and prediction of satisfaction in the theory of work adjustment☆

    James B. Rounds;René V. Dawis;Lloyd H. Lofquist

  • Measurement and Dimensionality of Mathematics Anxiety.

    James B. Rounds;Darwin D. Hendel

  • Psychosocial factors and the development of breast cancer: a meta-analysis.

    Molly C. McKenna;Michael A. Zevon;Barbara Corn;James Rounds

  • The Spherical Representation of Vocational Interests

    Terence J.G. Tracey;James Rounds

  • Prediger's dimensional representation of Holland's RIASEC circumplex.

    James Rounds;Terence J. Tracey

  • The Nature and Power of Interests

    James Rounds;Rong Su

  • Stability and change in work values: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies

    Jing Jin;James Rounds

  • Universality of Vocational Interest Structure among Racial and Ethnic Minorities.

    Susan X. Day;James Rounds

  • From trait-and-factor to person-environment fit counseling: Theory and process.

    James B. Rounds;Terence J. Tracey

  • Holland's RIASEC Model as an Integrative Framework for Individual Differences

    Patrick Ian Armstrong;Susan X. Day;Jason P. McVay;James Rounds

  • Vocational interests: Evaluating structural hypotheses.

    James Rounds

  • Methods for Evaluating Vocational Interest Structural Hypotheses.

    James Rounds;Terence J Tracey;Lawrence Hubert

Frequent Co-Authors

Terence J. G. Tracey
Terence J. G. Tracey Arizona State University
Fritz Drasgow
Fritz Drasgow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Daniel A. Briley
Daniel A. Briley University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Louis Tay
Louis Tay Purdue University West Lafayette
Oleksandr S. Chernyshenko
Oleksandr S. Chernyshenko Nanyang Technological University
Beryl Hesketh
Beryl Hesketh Western Sydney University
Stephen Stark
Stephen Stark University of South Florida
Brent W. Roberts
Brent W. Roberts University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Itamar Gati
Itamar Gati Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Elliot T. Berkman
Elliot T. Berkman University of Oregon

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