Acta Psychologica Sinica


Vol. 36 No. 1 , Pages 89 - 95 , 2004

Characteristics of Vocational Interest of Chinese High School Students and the Development of Interest Scale for Their College Entrance and Career Guidance (Article written in chinese)

ZHANG Houcan, FENG Boling, & YUAN Kun

Abstract

With the increase of competition in employment, career life planning has attracted more and more attention. Based on the need of high school graduates to select satisfactory majors and the basis of previous research on vocational interest, we explored the characteristics of high school students and developed an Interest Scale for College Entrance and Career Guidance. The vocational interest of Chinese high school students are classified into seven types: Artistic, Conventional, Enterprising, Investigative, Natural, Social and Technological. Both of the reliability and validity of the scale are satisfying. After certification and put into use throughout the whole country, it earns positive remarks from users.

Keywords: career life planning; interest scale; vocational interest type; Holland

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