Do Interests and Cognitive Abilities Help Explain College Major Choice Equally Well for Women and Men?
| Autor: | Katja Päßler, Benedikt Hell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Regression analysis Cognition Logistic regression language.human_language Holland Codes Developmental psychology German ddc:150 Vocational education language Psychology Social psychology Incremental validity General Psychology Applied Psychology Career counseling |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Career Assessment. 20:479-496 |
| ISSN: | 1552-4590 1069-0727 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1069072712450009 |
| Popis: | The present study examines whether vocational interests, measured by Holland’s RIASEC model, and objectively assessed cognitive abilities, were useful in discriminating among various major categories for a sample of 1990 German university students. Interests and specific abilities, in combination, significantly discriminated among major categories and furthermore, ability measures added incremental validity to prediction based on interest measures alone. Logistic regression analyses revealed significant differences in predictor importance between women and men. Furthermore, overall gender differences in interests and cognitive abilities were identifiable within major categories as well. Implications for career counseling are discussed. |
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