4-3 The Vocational Interest Structure of Taiwanese High School Students

The purpose of the study was to test Holland’s (1985) hexagonal model in a Chinese culture. The fit of the hexagonal model, Gati's(l982) hierarchical model, and Rounds and Tracy’s (1993) three-class partition were also evaluated based on the sample of 1861 high school students (788 males and 1073 females). The instrument used in this study was the Chinese Vocational Interest Inventory developed by Tien(1993). The ASCAL solutions of multidimensional scaling verified the order of RIASEC for females. While for males, the ordering of the six interest types on the two-dimensional space was IRASEC rather than RIASEC. With regard to the fit of the three models, the results of randomization test indicated Gati's hierarchical model the best to interpret the vocational interest structure of Taiwanese high school students.

Keywords
Career Interest, High School Students, Vocational Interest, Holland, Gati

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