Cognitive and Psychosocial Characteristics upon Entry into Teacher Training: Are Teacher Candidates Underestimated?In public debate on the teaching profession, it is sometimes suggested that people who choose to become teachers have unfavorable cognitive ...
Vocational Interests and Cognitive Ability of first-year Teacher Candidates as a Function of selected Study MajorRecent research on professional development in teacher education has been focused on differences in teacher candidates’ personality profiles ...
Vocational Interests and the Transition to the Thematic Profiles of Upper Secondary School: Their Structure and Utility for Predicting Educational ChoicesThis paper investigates the role that vocational interests conceptualized by Holland (1997) play ...
In studies on gender differences with respect to Holland’s (1997) vocational interests, men often score higher on Realistic (and sometimes also on Investigative and Enterprising) interests, and women score higher on Social and Artistic interests. In ...
Interest congruence and the experience of academic studiesAbstract. According to the congruence hypothesis of John Holland's theory of vocational interests, the fit between a person's vocational interests and his or her work environment has an impact on ...
Development and Validation of the “Fragebogen-Inventar für Freizeitinteressen” (FIFI)Abstract. Recent studies reported less convergence between leisure interests and vocational interests and that the practice of leisure interests yields positive ...
Psychometric Characteristics of an Updated Version of the German Vocational Interest Inventory „Berufs-Interessen-Test II“Abstract. The German vocational interest test BIT-II was developed in 1984 and since then several authors have stated the need for ...
Abstract. Vocational interest characteristics – interest congruence, interest differentiation, and general interest level (elevation) – are useful indicators for career development. However, research on these issues has primarily focused on adolescents in ...
Abstract. The present study used intraindividual criterion profile analysis to investigate the relationship between creative artistic and investigative interests and the Big Five personality traits. In 19 samples, we found that artistic and investigative ...
Abstract. The assessment and research of vocational interests have a long history in psychology. Our bibliometric analysis shows a steep rise in publication numbers focused on vocational interests immediately after John Holland’s (1959) seminal work and a ...
The Foto-Interessentest Series FIT 2003: Measurement of vocational interests with photographic stimuliAbstract. Vocational interests play an important role in vocational psychology and in vocational and career counseling. Most of the vocational interest ...
Abstract. This study examined the relationship between the secondary constructs of Holland's (1997) theory of vocational interests and career choice readiness (career maturity) attitudes with 358 Swiss secondary students. The hypothesis was tested that ...
Abstract. The possible existence of a broad factor of masculine versus feminine (M-F) occupational interests was tested. Data from Lippa (2005) were reanalyzed using common factor analysis and omitting redundant composite variables. The first unrotated ...
Large mean differences are consistently found in the vocational interests of men and women. These differences may be attributable to real differences in the underlying traits. However, they may also depend on the properties of the instrument being used. ...
Abstract: Students’ vocational interests can be described by Holland’s theory of occupational choice. Holland distinguishes six interest dimensions here: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional. Although these ...
Abstract. Holland’s RIASEC model is the dominant framework to conceptualize vocational interests. It describes vocational interests with six broad domains: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, ...