About
This assessment is built on the Personal Globe Inventory (PGI), developed by Dr. Terence J. G. Tracey, Professor Emeritus of Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Arizona State University and a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia. Over a career spanning four decades he has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.
Dr. Tracey earned his B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University (1974), a master's degree from the University of Kansas (1977), and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park (1981). He held faculty positions at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before joining Arizona State University in 1999, where he led the counseling psychology program.
His research spans the structure and development of vocational interests, client–therapist interaction in psychotherapy, interpersonal models of personality, and minority student academic success. He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Counseling Psychology and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Educational Research Association. His honors include an APA Presidential Citation and the Leona Tyler Award, the Society of Counseling Psychology's highest distinction.
The Personal Globe Inventory
The PGI measures vocational interests and competence beliefs using a spherical model of interests — organizing them around two core dimensions, People–Things and Data–Ideas, plus a Prestige axis. It maps a person's interests onto eight basic interest areas, the six Holland (RIASEC) types, and matches them to careers and fields of study. The instrument has been translated and validated in more than 20 countries, including Japan, China, Croatia, Serbia, Iran, and Singapore.