Abstract
The purpose of this paper was to clarify sex differences in the vocational preference of the visually impaired. Data were collected from 146 visually impaired college students and 92 sighted undergraduate students. The Vocational Preference Inventory (Japanese Version) was used to measure six personality types: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional. Occupations that were connected directly with social independence had attraction to the visually impaired. It was suggested that the study of the process of vocational development was necessary in relation to the psychological and social developments in the visually impaired. Sex differences were shown in 5 personality types. The exception was the conventional personality type. In the analysis of the inner structure using inter-measure correlations that showed positive, sex differences were found at Holland' s hexagonal model in both groups. So it was rejected that the sex differences were not found in the vocational preference of the visually impaired because there were not so many vocations that they could select. It was concluded that the same working hypothesis that was used in the career development of the sighted group could be adopted.
