TY - JOUR
T1 - Generalizability of interest structure to China
T2 - Application of the Personal Globe Inventory
AU - Long, Lirong
AU - Adams, Ryan S.
AU - Tracey, Terence
N1 - Funding Information:
We are indebt to Huijuan Zhao, Ran Bian, Yun Xie, Baoguo Xie, Zhichao Wang, Yu Yan, and Yi Wu for administering the survey and preparing the data for the present study. We thank Huijuan Zhao, Ran Bian, and Xiao Li for translating the PGI from English into Chinese. We are grateful to Ms. Yuebin Jin who provided access to the high schools. Finally the cooperation of the students and schools where the data were collected is appreciated. This study was financially supported by Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant No. 70171046.
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PY - 2005/2
Y1 - 2005/2
N2 - Two Chinese samples of the high school students (N=721) and the college students (N=943) were administered a translated version of the Personal Globe Inventory (PGI, Tracey, 2002), and the responses were examined with respect to their structure. Results of separate factor analyses demonstrated that there were three substantive factors: People/Things, Data/Ideas, and Prestige, similar to the structure of the PGI. The fit of the data to the PGI spherical model and the circular model of eight and six (i.e., RIASEC) types were examined using the randomized test of hypothesized order relations. The results demonstrated that the spherical model and the eight-type model fit the Chinese data equally well as data from the United States. However, unlike the Japanese results, Holland's six-type model fit the data as well as the eight-type model in the present study. No structure differences were found in the high school and the college samples or across gender within the high school and the college samples. The results support the structural validity of the PGI in Chinese applications.
AB - Two Chinese samples of the high school students (N=721) and the college students (N=943) were administered a translated version of the Personal Globe Inventory (PGI, Tracey, 2002), and the responses were examined with respect to their structure. Results of separate factor analyses demonstrated that there were three substantive factors: People/Things, Data/Ideas, and Prestige, similar to the structure of the PGI. The fit of the data to the PGI spherical model and the circular model of eight and six (i.e., RIASEC) types were examined using the randomized test of hypothesized order relations. The results demonstrated that the spherical model and the eight-type model fit the Chinese data equally well as data from the United States. However, unlike the Japanese results, Holland's six-type model fit the data as well as the eight-type model in the present study. No structure differences were found in the high school and the college samples or across gender within the high school and the college samples. The results support the structural validity of the PGI in Chinese applications.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jvb.2003.12.004
DO - 10.1016/j.jvb.2003.12.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:8744244619
SN - 0001-8791
VL - 66
SP - 66
EP - 80
JO - Journal of Vocational Behavior
JF - Journal of Vocational Behavior
IS - 1
ER -