1994 2-7 Cognitive Factors and Its Relationship with Vocational Interests

Hsin-Tai Lin
National Taiwan Normal university


This study surveyed 906 senior high school freshman students to explore the relation of gender, gender-role orientation, fiele dependence, and career self-efficacy to their vocational interests. Results revealed that gender and gender-role orientation were the most significant variables to students' choice of vocational interests: while gender had mediated effect on masculine-typed role orientation, male students preferred Realistic occpations, and female students had higher Artistic and Social interests. Gender-role orientation also had mediated effect on career self-efficacy. Besides, masculine-typed students preferred Enterprising, Realistic, Investigative, and Conventional occupations; feminine-typed students preferred Social, Artistic, Conventional, and Investigative occupations.

Diseriminant analysis showed similar results with 243 accuracy of classification, which also indieated effects of cognitive factors on student’s choice of occupations. It is suggested that career guidance counselor should put those cognitive factors in mind when discussing test results with students and if possible, provide certain awareness guidance program services to those needed.

Keywords
vocational interest、career development、cognitive styles

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