Journal article
Holland in Iceland Revisited: An Emic Approach to Evaluating US Vocational Interest Models
Journal of counseling psychology, Vol.57(3), pp.361-367
07/01/2010
DOI: 10.1037/a0019685
PMID: 21133585
Abstract
An emic approach was used to test the structural validity and applicability of Holland's (1997) RIASEC (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional) model in Iceland. Archival data from the development of the Icelandic Interest Inventory (Einarsdottir & Rounds. 2007) were used in the present investigation. The data included an indigenous pool of occupations and work-task items representing Iceland's world of work that had been administered to a sample of 597 upper secondary school students. Multidimensional scaling analysis and property vector fitting using Prediger's (1981) work-task dimensions were applied to the item responses to test if the RIASEC model could be identified. The results indicated that a 4-dimensional solution better explains the interest space in Iceland than Holland's 2-dimensional RIASEC representation. The work-task dimension of People Things and the Sex-Type and Prestige dimensions were located in the 1st and 2nd dimensions of the multidimensional scaling solution, but Data Ideas, a dimension critical to the RIASEC model, was not. The 3rd and 4th dimensions did not correspond to any dimensions previously detected in structural studies in the United States and seem to be related to specific ecological, cultural, and political forces in Iceland. These results demonstrate the importance of selecting representative indigenous occupations and work tasks when evaluating the RIASEC model. The present study is an example of the next step in a comprehensive cross-cultural research program on vocational interests, an emic investigation.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Holland in Iceland Revisited: An Emic Approach to Evaluating US Vocational Interest Models
- Creators
- Sif Einarsdottir - University of IcelandJames Rounds - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignRong Su - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of counseling psychology, Vol.57(3), pp.361-367
- DOI
- 10.1037/a0019685
- PMID
- 21133585
- NLM abbreviation
- J Couns Psychol
- ISSN
- 0022-0167
- eISSN
- 1939-2168
- Publisher
- Amer Psychological Assoc
- Number of pages
- 7
- Grant note
- name: RANNÍS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/01/2010
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984380423302771
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