Abstract: Holland’s RIASEC typology of vocational interest has a major influence on vocational researches worldwide. However, so far, no research in China examined the hypothesis of RIASEC types. The study tested 5 hypotheses of RIASEC types, two of which were proposed by the authors. The study searched for the researches which were related to Holland’s theory and conducted in China, and selected 9 matrices of RIASEC. The results indicated that Holland’s circular model did not fit the matrices, and space configuration of RIASEC did not represent Holland’s model. Implications on the structure of and types of vocational interest were discussed

Key words: vocational interest, the circular hypothesis, multidimensional scaling, randomization test of hypothesized order relations