Vocational interests of youth in Ecuador

• Druk: Łódź, 2018
• Autor: Anna Paszkowska-Rogacz, Mariusz Tomasz Wołońciej
• Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

This methodologically sound psychometric tool has been handed to Ecuadorian psychologists and teachers as a guide in the career counselling field. The tool will have a significant impact on the democratization of youth, assisting them to make well-targeted choices when planning their education and career. The authors’ study may be viewed as pioneering work, due to its consideration of the significant cultural and geographic regional differentiation among graduates from the Pacific coast, the Andes, the Amazon rainforest and the Galapagos Islands. Reaching to the classics of literature on the subject (primarily Holland, Super, Prediger and Strong), the authors have performed a momentous work, which is the construction of a psychometric tool that will be helpful in diagnosing career interests in the entire population of Ecuadorian youth. Worth additional acknowledgement are the high reliability indicators of the career interests questionnaire conducted on a representative and large study group, as well as the defined psychometric accuracy of the scale. This publication makes a civilizational quantum leap in the education of Ecuadorian youth, guaranteeing them a career choice that corresponds to their interests and ambitions. This pioneering publication on the Polish and world markets confirms the fact that Polish psychologists have the capability to „export” the psychometric school of thought to the Latin American region, with all of the scientific, social and humanitarian consequences involved.

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• Język wydania: angielski
• ISBN: 978-83-8088-864-7
• ISBN druku: 978-83-8088-863-0
• Liczba stron: 176

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Introduction	7
1.	The context of occupational guidance in Ecuador	11
1.1.	New challenges of the labor market in Ecuador	13
1.2.	Cultural diversity as a challenge for vocational guidance in Ecuador	19
1.3.	Ecuadorian youth in the school to work transition	23
1.4.	Youth passivity and work instability in the labor market	24
1.5.	Need for tools in occupational guidance in Ecuador	26
1.6.	Legal aspects of professional guidance in Ecuador	27
2.	Determinants and correlates of career choice	31
2.1.	Physical constitution and health in professional choices	33
2.2.	How does temperament influence occupational choices?	35
2.3.	Ability as an occupational success predictor	37
2.4.	Interests as personality traits	42
2.5.	Beliefs and values as vocational preferences predictors	44
2.6.	Personality and vocation	48
2.7.	Stages of career development	53
2.8.	Career decisions of youth	57
3.	Theoretical background of the IPPJ questionnaire 	61
3.1.	The theory of John Holland 	61
3.2.	Beyond the RIASEC code letters: Diagnostic aspects of the profile	65
3.2.1.	Congruence of professional interests	66
3.2.2.	Consistency of professional interests	67
3.2.3.	Differentiation of vocational interests	70
3.2.4.	Identity and vocational interest 	72
3.3.	Prediger’s Model of work environment classification 	73
3.4.	Typology of jobs according to Holland and Prediger	75
4.	The design of the questionnaire	79
4.1.	The construction of the pilot version	80
4.1.1.	The pilot study	81
4.1.2.	The validity study	85
4.1.3.	The validity study of the 60 item version 	92
4.1.4.	Confirmatory Factor Analysis	99
4.1.5.	The reliability of the IPPJ scale 	101
4.1.6.	Internal reliability scale: Duplicated items in “Lay key”	105
4.1.7.	Reliability as test-retest stability of the IPPJ scores	107
4.1.8.	Construct validity study through the analysis of intergroup differences	111
4.1.9.	Degree of diversity and intensity of interest	116
5.	Normalization procedure and analysis	119
6.	Scales’ scores calculation	123
7.	In the search of new techniques for vocational guidance practice	125
Conclusions	129
Bibliography	131
Appendices	141
Appendix 1. The pilot version of the IPPJ (120 items)	143
Appendix 2. Answer sheet for the pilot version IPPJ (120 items)	149
Appendix 3. The key of the pilot version scales (120 items)	151
Appendix 4. Items of the final version (60) with type codes after Factor Analysis of the pilot version (120) 	152
Appendix 5. The final version of the INVENTARIO DE PREFERENCIAS PROFESIONALES DE JÓVENES (IPPJ) (60 items)	155
Appendix 6. The key of the IPPJ (final version)	159
Appendix 7. The translation of the IPPJ items from Spanish into English	160
Appendix 8. Sten norms for vocational interests of girls (N = 962) (R, S, E, C scales)	163
Appendix 9. Sten norms (R, S, E, C) for professional interests of boys (N = 970)	164
Appendix 10. Sten norms (I, E) for professional interests for girls and boys (N = 1932)	165
Appendix 11. Sten norms for Holland’s Differentiation indicators	166
Appendix 12. Sten norms for Iachan’s Differentiation indicators	167
Appendix 13. Sten norms for the Intensity Indicators	168
Appendix 14: The answer sheet: the table profile or/and the hexagon profile	169
List of figures	171
List of tables	173