An examination of gender imbalance in Scottish adolescents' vocational interests.

This paper documents Scottish adolescents' vocational interest types. Our research is based on the responses of 1,306 pupils from 18 secondary schools to an empirically verified online interest inventory test. Our results are threefold. First, the structural validity of the test with the Scotti...

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Autores principales:	Laurence Lasselle, Stijn Schelfhout, Lot Fonteyne, Graham Kirby, Ian Smith, Wouter Duyck
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:05fe188ad6224785bb62247a156dc24d2021-12-02T20:14:12ZAn examination of gender imbalance in Scottish adolescents' vocational interests.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0257723https://doaj.org/article/05fe188ad6224785bb62247a156dc24d2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257723https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203This paper documents Scottish adolescents' vocational interest types. Our research is based on the responses of 1,306 pupils from 18 secondary schools to an empirically verified online interest inventory test. Our results are threefold. First, the structural validity of the test with the Scottish sample is confirmed by evaluating the underlying circumplex structure of Holland's RIASEC vocational interests. Second, gender distribution along the six primary vocational interest dimensions is consistent with the research literature: young men scoring higher on the Realistic vocational interest and young women scoring higher on the Social dimension. Finally, we observe that across dimensions, vocational interests of young women are less diverse than those of young men. We discuss how these dissimilarities could lead to differences in education choice and career decision-making.Laurence LasselleStijn SchelfhoutLot FonteyneGraham KirbyIan SmithWouter DuyckPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 9, p e0257723 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Laurence Lasselle Stijn Schelfhout Lot Fonteyne Graham Kirby Ian Smith Wouter Duyck An examination of gender imbalance in Scottish adolescents' vocational interests.
description	This paper documents Scottish adolescents' vocational interest types. Our research is based on the responses of 1,306 pupils from 18 secondary schools to an empirically verified online interest inventory test. Our results are threefold. First, the structural validity of the test with the Scottish sample is confirmed by evaluating the underlying circumplex structure of Holland's RIASEC vocational interests. Second, gender distribution along the six primary vocational interest dimensions is consistent with the research literature: young men scoring higher on the Realistic vocational interest and young women scoring higher on the Social dimension. Finally, we observe that across dimensions, vocational interests of young women are less diverse than those of young men. We discuss how these dissimilarities could lead to differences in education choice and career decision-making.
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An examination of gender imbalance in Scottish adolescents' vocational interests.

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