Vocational Interests: A Look at the Past 70 Years and a Glance at the Future

Betsworth, Deborah G.; Fouad, Nadya A.

doi:10.1002/j.2161-0045.1997.tb00689.x

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“…Vocational interests are one of the most central constructs in career development (Betsworth & Fouad, 1997). They guide, for example, career choices (Lent, Brown, Nota, & Soresi, 2003) and play a crucial role in vocational and general identity development in adolescence (Vondracek & Skorikov, 1997).…”

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Individual predictors of adolescents’ vocational interest stabilities

Hirschi

2010

Int J Educ Vocat Guidance

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The study investigated the predictive utility of interest profile differentiation, coherence, elevation, congruence, and vocational identity commitment and career maturity (career planning and exploration) on the 10-month interest stability of 292 Swiss eighth-grade students: profile, rank, and level stabilities were assessed. Controlling for socio-demographic and vocational interest type variables, measures of differentiated and coherent vocational interests were significant predictors of profile stability. Interest elevation predicted more rank and level stability. The career development variables explained only a non-significant additional amount of variance in the different stability measures.Résumé. Prédicteurs individuels de l' Adolescents' Vocational Interest Stabilities. L'étude a investigué, chez 292 élèves suisses du huitième degré, l'utilité prédictive du profil d'intérêts en termes de différenciation, de cohérence, d'intensité, de congruence, ainsi que d'engagement sur le plan de l'identité de professionnelle et de la maturité de carrière (planification et exploration du parcours professionnel) par rapport à la stabilité des intérêts à 10 mois: on a évalué la stabilité du profil, du rang et du niveau. Les variables de type sociodémographique et relatives aux intérêts professionnels étant contrôlées, les mesures des intérêts vocationnels différenciés et cohérents se révèlent être des prédicteurs significatifs de la stabilité du profil. Le degré d'intérêt prédit davantage la stabilité du rang et du niveau. Les variables de développement du parcours professionnel expliquent seulement une quantité additionnelle non significative de variance dans les différentes mesures de stabilité.Zusammenfassung. Individuelle Indikatoren fü r die Vorhersage der Stabilität von Berufsinteressen bei Jugendlichen. Diese Studie untersuchte die Vorhersage-A. Hirschi (Genauigkeiten in Bezug auf eine 10-Monats-Stabilität der Berufsinteressen für die Indikatoren Diffenziertheit des Interessensprofils, Kohärenz, Ausprägungsintensität, Kongruenz für die berufliche Zielorientiertheit und die Berufswahlreife (Laufbahnplanung und -erkundung) bei 292 Schweizer Schülern der 8.Klasse. Unter Berücksichtigung von sozio-demografischen Variablen und von Berufsinteressenstypen erwiesen sich die Differenziertheit und die Kohärenz der Interessensprofile als signifikante Indikatoren für deren Stabilität im Zeitverlauf. Die Variablen der Berufswahlvorbereitung erklärten dabei lediglich einen nichtsignifikanten zusätzlichen Varianzbereich der verschiedenen Stabilitätsindikatoren.Resumen. Predictores Individuales de la Estabilidad de los Intereses Vocacionales de los Adolescentes. El estudio investigó la utilidad predictiva de la diferenciación de los perfiles de intereses, la coherencia, y el compromiso con la identidad vocacional y la madurez profesional (planificacion y exploración de la carrera) con respecto a la estabilidad de los intereses de 292 estudiantes suizos de grado octavo a lo largo de 10 meses: se evaluó la estabilidad del perfil, ...

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Individual predictors of adolescents’ vocational interest stabilities

Hirschi

2010

Int J Educ Vocat Guidance

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“…Gender predicted interests in numerous cases as expected, with women reporting higher interests in Artistic and Social areas and men reporting higher Realistic and Investigative interests. This pattern of gender differences in interests has been well documented (e.g., Betsworth & Fouad, 1997;Su et al, 2009). Further, gender differences in interests have been noted as one of the more significant sex/gender differences in psychological research (Lubinski, 2000), although the differences between women's and men's interests have narrowed modestly over time (Bubany & Hansen, 2011;Su et al, 2009).…”

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Teasing apart the relations between age, birth cohort, and vocational interests.

Leuty¹,

Hansen²

2014

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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Empirical evidence supports that aging is related to differences in work attitudes and motivation (Inceoglu, Segers, & Bartram, 2012; Kooij, de Lange, Jansen, Kanfer, & Kikkers, 2011; Ng & Feldman, 2008, 2010), but little research has explored the relations between age and vocational interests. Furthermore, recent studies of age and work attitudes suggest that generational experiences (i.e., birth year) may account for age differences in the workplace (Inceoglu et al., 2012; Ng & Feldman, 2008, 2010), which in turn suggests that researchers need to incorporate both age and birth cohort effects in their designs. Thus, this study was designed to explore the relations of age at the time of testing and birth year to vocational interests using a sample of adults (N = 1,792) collected over a period of 3 decades. As expected, age was not a significant predictor of most interests, but birth year also was not found to predict most interests, with the significant prediction of Realistic interests by both age and birth year being the exception. Gender, however, significantly predicted most areas of interests. Neither age nor gender moderated any relationships between birth year and interests. Results suggest that birth year and age were minimally related to interests as all effect sizes were small. Discussion of the results illustrates the need for further research on this issue and also offers considerations for attracting and retaining different generations of workers in light of the findings.

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“…In contrast, a significant difference in favor medium SES was found in mathematics interest. When the literature was reviewed, it was observed that SES is an important variable affecting vocational interest, however within the studies analyzed there was no information about which SES makes difference in which field (Betsworth & Fouad, 1997;Lent, 2005;Patton & McMahon, 2006). Within this study the number of books purchased, the frequency of the participation of parents in social activities, educational and income level of mother and father were used in determining SES.…”

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“…Strong (1943) states that interests are permanent and not affected sufficiently by the vocational education and experience for estimating future behaviors. Yet, McArthur (1954) assumes that this relation seems to be changeable by SES (Betsworth & Fouad, 1997).…”

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Investigation of Vocational Interest and Preference in Terms of Gender and Socio-economic Status

Deniz¹,

Türe²,

Uysal³

et al. 2014

EJER

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Problem Statement: Individuals tend to prefer a vocation in order to reach their targets such as leading a life, nutrition, housing, being safe, having a good position in society etc. It is a task of the adolescence period to choose a vocation which is for some the most important step of the life, while for some others it is a rather important step in life however that can be changed and made flexible any time. All studies which are examined, show that vocational interest and vocational preference are affected by a great deal of variables. Purpose of Study:In this study, the relations were investigated between the gender, socio-economic status (SES) variables and the vocational interest and the vocational preference.Methods: Within this study, the long (OFII) and short form (OFII-SF) of the Occupational Field Interest Inventory were used. In total 812 students, who were studying at the preparatory classes of Ankara University (N=495) and Yıldırım Beyazıt University (N=317) during the 2011/12 spring semester, took part in this study. Before the analyses were made, the raw scores obtained via OFII and OFII-SF were converted into z score.

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Vocational Interests: A Look at the Past 70 Years and a Glance at the Future

Cited by 50 publications

References 101 publications

Individual predictors of adolescents’ vocational interest stabilities

Individual predictors of adolescents’ vocational interest stabilities

Teasing apart the relations between age, birth cohort, and vocational interests.

Investigation of Vocational Interest and Preference in Terms of Gender and Socio-economic Status

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