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Gender Differences in Vocational Interests Across 57 Countries: A Test of the Interest–Gender-Equality Paradox

Social Psychology and Personality Science
Postmaterialist theory suggests that gender differences in vocational interests should be larger in more egalitarian countries, reflecting a counter-intuitive pattern called the “Gender-Equality Paradox.” By contrast, social role theory implies that ...
Y. Du, Serena Wee, James Rounds
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Toward a Dimensional Model of Vocational Interests

Journal of Applied Psychology, 2019
Growing evidence on the predictive validity of vocational interests for job performance calls for greater consideration of interest assessment in organizations.
R. Su, L. Tay, Hsin-ya Liao, Qi Zhang, J. Rounds   +4 more
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Vocational interests, gender, and job performance: Two person–occupation cross‐level interactions

Personnel Psychology, 2020
Anearlier versionof this articlewaspresented at theAnnualMeetingof theSociety for Industrial andOrganizational Psychology,Orlando, Florida,April 2017.
Serena Wee, Daniel A. Newman, Q. Song, J. Schinka   +3 more
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Stability and change in vocational interests from late childhood to early adolescence

, 2020
This study examines the age and gender specific development of vocational interest across a three-year span with a sample of 541 students. At time of the first measurement, students were in fourth to sixth grade (mean age = 10.8 years; SD = 1.00) and 48 ...
K. Pässler, Benedikt Hell
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Vocational Interests of Substance Abusers

Psychological Reports, 1982
The vocational interests of male polydrug, alcohol, and heroin abusers were compared using the Minnesota Vocational Interest Inventory. Findings indicated that the form of substance abuse is not related to occupational preference. When compared with tradesmen-in-general, substance abusers are more interested in verbal, aesthetic, people-oriented, and ...
H A, Collins, A E, Smith, W G, White
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Person-vocation fit across the world of work: Evaluating the generalizability of the circular model of vocational interests and social cognitive career theory across 74 countries

Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2019
The fit of a person with a vocation, or person-vocation (P-V) fit, is important for workers and is a central concept in vocational psychology. Multiple theories in vocational psychology undergird an understanding of P-V fit, including the circular model ...
Alexander Glosenberg, T. Tracey, Tara S. Behrend, D. Blustein, Lori L. Foster   +4 more
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Vocational and Leisure Interests

Journal of Career Assessment, 2015
Although much attention has been devoted to examining the measurement of vocational interests, much less attention has been directed to studying leisure interests, despite suggestions for incorporation of leisure interests into career counseling, particularly for college students.
Leuty, Melanie E., Hansen, Jo-Ida C., Speaks, Stormy Z.   +2 more
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Vocational interests and personality

Journal of Occupational Psychology, 1983
The field of vocational counselling lacks consensus regarding the dimensions common to a vocational guidance test battery and the appropriate methodology to employ in the analysis of the internal structure of vocational guidance test data.
ROBERT ZAGAR, JACK ARBIT, JUDITH FALCONER, JOTHAM FRIEDLAND   +3 more
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Evaluation of the dimensions of the spherical model of vocational interests in the long and short version of the Personal Globe Inventory

Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2019
The present study examined three different sources of evidence for the validity of the Personal Globe Inventory (PGI; Tracey, 2002 ) with regard to its ability to assess the dimensions underlying the spherical model of vocational interests: People-Things,
Julian M. Etzel, G. Nagy
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Interests and Vocations

2006
AbstractThe study of vocational interests is one of the oldest and largest areas within the psychology of interest. This chapter reviews what vocational psychology has learned about interests related to the world of work. One issue concerns the structure of vocational interests.
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