Abstract
We report the development, examination, and replication of a spherical structure of vocational interests. A sample of 266 undergraduate students were asked to give their preferences to a sample of 229 occupational titles. The principal components analysis conducted on the item level responses supported the presence of the prestige component in addition to the general, people/things, and data/ideas components typically associated with interest data. Twenty-four subscales were created for geometrically defined combinations of the prestige, people/things, and data/ideas components and these subscales were found to lie on the surface of the sphere. This spherical representation was then examined on independent samples of college (N = 223) and high school students (N = 370). Strong support was yielded for the structure.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3-41 |
| Number of pages | 39 |
| Journal | Journal of Vocational Behavior |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 1996 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Education
- Applied Psychology
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
- Life-span and Life-course Studies