An examination of gender imbalance in Scottish adolescents' vocational interests.
Journal
PloS one
ISSN: 1932-6203
Titre abrégé: PLoS One
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101285081
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
08
02
2021
accepted:
08
09
2021
entrez:
24
9
2021
pubmed:
25
9
2021
medline:
20
11
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
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.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34559830
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0257723
pii: PONE-D-21-04302
pmc: PMC8462744
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e0257723Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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