A World of Work Map for Career Exploration

Relation of Reinforcement Sensitivity on Vocational Interest and Self-Efficacy

“…These included neuroticism-artistic, extraversion-realistic, extraversioninvestigative, extraversion-conventional, openness-conventional, agreeablenessrealistic, agreeableness-investigative, agreeableness-artistic, agreeablenessenterprising, agreeableness-conventional, conscientiousness-realistic, and conscientiousness-artistic. Similar to the pattern with personality/ interest correlations that were trivial, the Big 5 were not linking to interests that were away from the "people" end of Prediger's (1976) people/things dimension.…”

“…It may mean that if reward orientation was a factor as discussed in the preceding section, the reward orientation 66 may not be as salient in regards to confidence. If conceptualized using "Things versus People dimensions" (Prediger, 1976), both social and enterprising activities would require similar skill sets related to working with people. Therefore the reward orientation would be more salient in regards to an individual's interest due to the career rewards that may motivate them, whereas the reward orientation would not be as influential in fostering the confidence of skills that would be necessary in both social and enterprising (i.e.…”

Factorial Validity of the Vocational Interest Scales of the Holland Vocational Preference Inventory for Australian High School Students

“…Things, Data vs. Idea) by Prediger (1976). Additionally, Lunneborg and Lunneborg (1975) showed in a factor analysis of VPI scales that four orthogonal dimensions seemed necessary to capture interindividual variability: Social vs. Technical, Organisational vs.…”

“…Although classifications of these scales have resulted in a number of hierarchical and dimensional models (Gati, 1979;Hanson and Cole, 1973;Lunneborg and Lunneborg, 1975;Prediger, 1976), the existence of bipolar interest factors (Booth and Begin, 1978) and especially the presence of the Things vs. People dimension have been consistent features of the analyses of these interest scales. For example, the six vocational interest scales of the VPI were related to a two dimensional world of work classification (People vs.…”

“…The purpose of the present study was (a) to determine the factor structure of the VPI for two different Australian samples, (b) to examine similarity or congruence of factors between scales, and more importantly, (c) to determine whether the VPI scales could be classified in the manner outlined by Prediger (1976). It was hypothesized that principal components analysis of the VPI would yield a bipolar structure incorporating independent dimensions of (a) Things (Realistic) vs. People (Social) and (b) Data (Conventional, Enterprising) vs Ideas (Investigative, Artistic).…”