A Study of the Reliability and Validity of Holland’s RIASEC of Vocational Personalities in Arabic

Abstract

There certain problems appear when using English language versions of robust psychometric instruments to identify when it comes to pinpointing Vocational Personalities, in a learning environment other than English native are usually written in English, intended to be used in a Western environment. When employed in a separate language environment, there are problems during translation, as well as cultural matters. An example of this is seen where there are linguistic inconsistencies during literal question or other item translation, meaning there are minor (or major) changes in the meaning for the translates output, which alters the validity and reliability of measurement of the estimations. A word for word translation of Holland's RIASEC of Vocational Personalities was applied to 178 students at the King Abdulaziz University; this is a study that describes validity, internal reliability, factor structure and Correlation Analysis for Holland's RIASEC in Arabic.Keywords: Holland's RIASEC types, vocational interests, personality, reliability, validity,

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“…From the potential changes pointed out in the previous comments, extra care should be taken not to cause problems when choosing Realistic and Conventional; Enterprising and Recognition Items. In addition, RIASEC's Social and Conventional dimensions are proven to be related to Work Value, (Aljojo and Saifuddin 2017). Research conducted in Croatia also revealed that the Holland instrument which was tested on 1866 adolescents in Croatia stated that the instrument was considered good and reliable to use.…”

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“…Personality Type Theory atau Teori Tipe Kepribadian adalah teori yang dikemukakan oleh John Holland yang menyatakan bahwa sebuah usaha harus dilakukan untuk mencocokkan pilihan karir individu dengan kepribadiannya [5].sebagai contoh 5 kombinasi SDS Code diantaranya adalah sebagai berikut:…”