An examination of gender imbalance in Scottish adolescents’ vocational interests

This paper documents Scottish adolescents’ vocational interest types. Our research is based on the responses of 1,306 pupils from 18 secondary schools to an empirically verified online interest inventory test. Our results are threefold. First, the structural validity of the test with the Scottish sample is confirmed by evaluating the underlying circumplex structure of Holland’s RIASEC vocational interests. Second, gender distribution along the six primary vocational interest dimensions is consistent with the research literature: young men scoring higher on the Realistic vocational interest and young women scoring higher on the Social dimension. Finally, we observe that across dimensions, vocational interests of young women are less diverse than those of young men. We discuss how these dissimilarities could lead to differences in education choice and career decision-making.

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Body Image Satisfaction and its Relationship to the Reasons Why Young Women are Undergoing Cosmetic Surgery from their Perspectives: الرضا عن صورة الجسد وعلاقته بأسباب إقبال الشابات على إجراء عمليات التجميل من وجهة نظرهن

المجلة العربية للعلوم ونشر الأبحاث مجلة العلوم التربوية والنفسية ◽

10.26389/ajsrp.n100620 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (46) ◽

Author(s):

Nadia Fahad Joudeh, Suhaila Mahmood Banat

Keyword(s):

Body Image ◽

Marital Status ◽

Young Women ◽

Cosmetic Surgery ◽

The Body ◽

Social Dimension ◽

Body Image Satisfaction ◽

Economic Level ◽

Level Of Satisfaction ◽

The Social

This study aimed to reveal the level of satisfaction of the body image and its relationship to the reasons why young women are undergoing cosmetic surgery from their perspectives. The sample of the study consisted of (150) young women who visit private beauty clinic. Two scales were developed: a scale of the level of satisfaction of body image consisting of (34) item and a scale of the reasons of why young women are undergoing cosmetic surgery consisting of (39) item. After insured the scales' validity and reliability, the descriptive-correlational approach was used. The results of the study showed that the level of body image was moderate, and for the reasons of why young women are undergoing cosmetic surgery; the psychological dimension came in the first rank, While the vocational dimension came in the last rank. The results also found a positive correlation between body image satisfaction and the reasons why young women are undergoing cosmetic surgery. The results did not show differences in the level of satisfaction of the body image to the variable of marital status and economic level. While the results showed dissatisfaction with the body image due to age in favor of the category (31-40) and the educational qualification in favor of a diploma degree and below. As for the reasons for the young women undergoing cosmetic surgery, it was found that there were no statistically significant differences in the marital status and educational qualification variables, also, there were differences due to age only on the social dimension and in favor of (31 - 40), and there were differences attributed to the economic level in the social dimension in favor of the category (500-1000). Considering the results, the researcher recommended reinforcing the body image through nurture and guidance to raise the level of satisfaction with body image and to conduct more surveys, qualitative, and experimental studies related to cosmetic surgery other than the target category in this study, and for both sexes.

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Vocational Interests of Heroin-Dependent Patients

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1979.44.2.467 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 467-470 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hardin A. Collins

Keyword(s):

Drug Abuse ◽

Vocational Interests ◽

Vocational Interest ◽

Interest Inventory

Minnesota Vocational Interest Inventory profiles of 114 male drug abusing (18 to 44 yr.) participants in a voluntary VA Drug Abuse Program were obtained. Mean scores are reported for the occupational scales and area scales. The profiles are more indicative of avoidance rather than similarities of interests.

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The congruence of vocational interests and the workplace environment: Reducing the language teacher shortage

Language Teaching Research ◽

10.1177/1362168812455588 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 519-537 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Peter B. Swanson

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Coping Styles ◽

Teacher Shortage ◽

Vocational Interests ◽

Directed Search ◽

Language Teacher ◽

Interest Inventory ◽

Teacher Longevity ◽

The Social ◽

The World

There is a shortage of second/foreign language (S/FL) teachers in many parts of the world, and the rates of attrition are cause for alarm in North America. Canadian and US teachers’ ( N = 323) were administered the Self-Directed Search vocational interest inventory and the Coping in Stressful Situations scale. Results from this quantitative study confirmed the vocational profile of an efficacious second/foreign language teacher and revealed significant differences in coping styles between those teachers with and without the vocational profile. Additionally, data analysis indicated that the Social, Artistic, and Enterprising profile is directly related to teacher longevity in the profession. The research has implications for the recruitment and retention of S/FL teachers at a time of critical need.

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Vocational Interests of Substance Abusers

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1982.50.1.327 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 327-333

Author(s):

Hardin A. Collins ◽

Arthur E. Smith ◽

W. Glenn White

Keyword(s):

Substance Abuse ◽

Substance Abusers ◽

Vocational Interests ◽

Vocational Interest ◽

Interest Inventory ◽

Holland's Theory ◽

Heroin Abusers ◽

Occupational Preference ◽

Made In

The vocational interests of male polydrug, alcohol, and heroin abusers were compared using the Minnesota Vocational Interest Inventory. Findings indicated that the form of substance abuse is not related to occupational preference. When compared with tradesmen-in-general, substance abusers are more interested in verbal, aesthetic, people-oriented, and feminine kinds of activities. Interpretations are made in the context of John Holland's theory of personal orientations and occupational environments.

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Student’s Attitudes to Parenthood and the Social Roles of Men and Women

Sociologicheskaja nauka i social naja praktika ◽

10.19181/snsp.2019.7.2.6410 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 65-80 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tatiana A. Gurko

Keyword(s):

Public Sphere ◽

Young Women ◽

Social Roles ◽

Young Men ◽

Point Of View ◽

Men And Women ◽

The Public ◽

The Social ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

Student's Attitudes

The article analyzes the attitudes of young men and women based on a study of 1408 undergraduates of specialists in various fields of training at the age of 20–24 years, which held at the end of 2018 in Moscow and Stavropol. The results processed in IBM SPSS Statistics 23. It established that attitudes of students on the social roles of men and women differ by sex, and largely in the public sphere than in the family sphere and everyday practices. These results are different from a number of European countries where attitudes of young men and women mostly diverge in the private rather than the public sphere. Most students plan to have children (85% of young men and 90% of young women) and more than half of them plan to have two children. No more than one percent of male and female students are the “childfree” or «childhate». Contrary to the hypothesis, both young men and young women highly appreciate the ability of men to perform a paternal role and rarely adhere to the essentialist view of parenthood. Among young men, more often expressed attitude to child-centrism than among young women. The views on parent’ involvement almost did not differ by gender. Students recognize that parenthood is a responsible and difficult job that requires effort and considerable time and effort. For most of the studied variables, students’ religious and ethnic identity is the most differentiating. This applies to maintaining the tradition of patrilineality (the intentions of the young women to take her husband’s name after marriage), attitudes to the distribution of spousal roles, reproductive plans, child-centrism and essentialism in parenting. Social groups of young men and women, who support the views representing risk factors from the point of view of successful marriage, allocated.

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