Interests in School Subjects and Vocational Preference 1 |
| |
Authors: | Lennart Sjöberg Britt‐Marie Drottz |
| |
Affiliation: | Lennart Sjoberg, Professor, and Britt‐Marie Drottz, Research Assistant, Department of Psychology , University of Goteborg , P.O. Box 14158, 40020 Goteborg, Sweden |
| |
Abstract: | Sjöberg, L. & Drottz, B.‐M. 1983. Interests in School Subject and Vocational Preference. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research 27, 165‐182. A group of Swedish high school students rated their interests in school subject areas. Interests were related to perceived effort, ability as regards grades and vocational preferences as well as to perceived job market prospects in the vocations. It was found that interests could be well accounted for by the logical appeal of the subject areas and, to some extent, by their practical value. Interests were related to perceived ability and to perceived effort in structural model analyses applied to intercorrelations. Vocational preferences were only weakly related to interests in subject areas, though most students stated that their choices were based on ‘interest’. Preferences among vocations were correlated especially with individual job market prospects. |
| |
Keywords: | |
|
|