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Vocational Interests
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Vocational Interests

Patrick Ian Armstrong, Rong Su and James Rounds
The Wiley‐Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences, pp.608-631
Wiley‐Blackwell
04/01/2011
DOI: 10.1002/9781444343120.ch23

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Abstract

continuity and change of interests ‐ from two theoretical perspectives, a situational perspective, or a dispositional perspective dispositional interests, stable ‐ involved with an individual's identity and choice of environment gender differences in interests ‐ in vocational interests, subsuming study of interest measurement on basis of Holland's RIASEC structure Holland's Structural Formulations ‐ Holland's theory of vocational personalities and work environments, match between individuals and environments integrated models and interests, cognitive responses to critical features of environments ‐ behaviors imposed or suggested by those environments interest literature since 1970s ‐ using Holland's RIASEC model for organizing research results interest theory and how vocational interests ‐ contribute to understanding of individual differences large differences in interest scores ‐ between men and women, unavoidably bringing up issue of interpretation of differences, and consequential validity of interest measures Prediger's data ‐ ideas and people, and Hogan's sociability and conformity dimensions in Holland's RIASEC model vocational interests ‐ the road less traveled

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