-X Vocational Interests and Job Satisfaction: ^ Effects on Turnover Among Air Force Enlistees

The Vocational Interest-Career Examination (VOICE) is an Air Force instrument designed to assess vocational interests among Air Force enlistees. Its development and validation are described by Alley and Matthews (1982). In * ^"^) addition, job satisfaction can be predicted by the VOICE (Alley, Wilbourn, & Si Berberich, 1976). Job satisfaction has been found to be related to fatigue, (^ dissatisfaction with life, depression, psychosomatic illness, mental illness, ^^^ drug and alcohol abuse, job performance, and coronary heart disease (Cf. Alley C> & Matthews, in press). Perhaps the most serious implication of personnel 1^ dissatisfaction, however, has to do with its influence on various forms of '"^ occupational withdrawal. Research has demonstrated quite consistently that ^—^ personnel dissatisfied with their jobs are much more likely to be absent from ^^ their work (Waters & Roach, 1973) and to terminate their employment at a higher frequency than are satisfied workers (Mobley, Griffeth, Hand, & Meglino, 1S79).