TY - JOUR
T1 - The use of interest and competence scores to predict educational choices of Chinese high school students
AU - Leung, S. Alvin
AU - Zhou, Sili
AU - Ho, Esther Yuk Fan
AU - Li, Xixi
AU - Ho, Katty P.
AU - Tracey, Terence
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the General Research Fund of the Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee, Hong Kong (Grant# CUHK449410 ) to the first author as Principal Investigator.
PY - 2014/6
Y1 - 2014/6
N2 - This study examined how interest, perceived competence (i.e., efficacy), and prestige preference, as measured by the Personal Globe Inventory (PGI; Tracey, 2002), contributed to the classification of Chinese high school students with different education orientations. It was hypothesized that interest, efficacy, and prestige would yield a significantly higher correct classification hit rate of students with different educational orientations than would be expected by chance, and that the combined set of the interest, efficacy, and prestige predictors would contribute significantly more variance than interest scores alone or the efficacy scores alone in predicting students' educational orientations. Findings suggested that the interest and competence scores of the PGI based on both the Holland RIASEC model as well as the 4-type (People, Things, Data, and Ideas) model were able to discriminate among students in three educational orientation groups: Arts and Humanities, Business, and Science. The PGI interest and competence scores of students in these educational orientation groups were consistent with the expected theoretical direction. The findings were supportive of the concurrent validity of the PGI for senior high school students in Hong Kong. Theoretical and practice implications were discussed.
AB - This study examined how interest, perceived competence (i.e., efficacy), and prestige preference, as measured by the Personal Globe Inventory (PGI; Tracey, 2002), contributed to the classification of Chinese high school students with different education orientations. It was hypothesized that interest, efficacy, and prestige would yield a significantly higher correct classification hit rate of students with different educational orientations than would be expected by chance, and that the combined set of the interest, efficacy, and prestige predictors would contribute significantly more variance than interest scores alone or the efficacy scores alone in predicting students' educational orientations. Findings suggested that the interest and competence scores of the PGI based on both the Holland RIASEC model as well as the 4-type (People, Things, Data, and Ideas) model were able to discriminate among students in three educational orientation groups: Arts and Humanities, Business, and Science. The PGI interest and competence scores of students in these educational orientation groups were consistent with the expected theoretical direction. The findings were supportive of the concurrent validity of the PGI for senior high school students in Hong Kong. Theoretical and practice implications were discussed.
KW - Career interest and competence
KW - Chinese students
KW - Cross-cultural
KW - Personal Globe Inventory
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jvb.2014.02.010
DO - 10.1016/j.jvb.2014.02.010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84899865273
SN - 0001-8791
VL - 84
SP - 385
EP - 394
JO - Journal of Vocational Behavior
JF - Journal of Vocational Behavior
IS - 3
ER -