Characteristics of vocational interests in secondary education students evaluated through the explora

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Published: Sep 27, 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2014.n1.v3.535
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Behavior vocational vocational choice vocational and professional interests vocational counseling skills personality self-efficacy

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José Manuel Martínez Vicente
Universidad de Almería
Isabel María Ángeles Segura
Universidad de Almería

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The evaluation of vocational and professional interests is considered one of the important aspects in education secondary students for their future decision making. Thus, the objective of this study is to have a current view of how they are configured vocational and professional interests in secondary students in Spain. This Questionnaire for Vocational and Professional EXPLORE (Martinez-Vicente and Santamaría, 2013) to a sample of 3123 high school students and high school applied. The results obtained indicate that there are sex differences in the elections. While women marked preference for Social - Welfare - Artistic and Creative fields in the two men chosen fields are the Technical and Business -Owner - Persuasiavo. In the analysis of the indices of consistency and differentiation women are more consistent than men and differentiation is also higher for them.

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Martínez Vicente, J. M., & Ángeles Segura, I. M. (2014). Characteristics of vocational interests in secondary education students evaluated through the explora. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 3(1), 549–562. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2014.n1.v3.535
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