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Ran Wei – Cogent Education, 2024
The utilisation of the RIASEC Theory, based on the Holland Code, has gained substantial popularity in the realm of career planning. Nevertheless, only a limited number of studies have explored the potential influence of the six personality types identified in the Realistic-Investigative-Artistic-Social-Enterprising-Conventional Theory (RIASEC…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Educational Theories, Career Choice
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Agbola, Frank W.; Cheng, Calvin – Studies in Continuing Education, 2017
Making decisions about education choices is challenging and difficult for students. Utilising the theory of reasoned action, we specify and estimate a conceptual framework that captures the cognitive process of decision making of students in choosing top-up higher degrees in Hong Kong. Top-up higher or bachelor's degrees are top-up undergraduate…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Bachelors Degrees, Undergraduate Students
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Ng, Alexander; Fan, Weiqiao; Cheung, Fanny M.; Leong, Frederick T. L.; Cheung, Shu Fai – Journal of Career Assessment, 2012
We examined whether the Cross-Cultural (Chinese) Personality Assessment Inventory-2 (CPAI-2), developed by the combined emic-etic approach, could provide useful information for us to understand the relations between personality and the key academic major groups in the Chinese context. Participants in this study included 989 university students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Measures, Cultural Relevance, Personality
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Law, Philip; Yuen, Desmond – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of factors affecting students' choice of accounting as a study major in Hong Kong. Design/methodology/approach: Multinomial logistic regression and Hierarchical Generalized Linear Modeling (HGLM) are used to analyze the survey data for the level one and level two data, which is the…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Accounting