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Chan, Chun-Chen – Journal of Career Development, 2020
The present study attempted to identify the psychological processes associated with the career goals of Taiwanese college athletes. In order to identify the psychological processes potentially associated with career goals, the study drew upon social cognitive career theory (SCCT). The results supported SCCT indicating that career decision-making…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Social Cognition, Self Efficacy, Decision Making
Graduate Management Admission Council, 2019
Each month, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) surveys a random sample of individuals who three months prior registered on mba.com--the GMACâ„¢ website for prospective graduate business students. Their survey responses provide an inside look into the decision-making process of people currently considering applying to a graduate…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Business Administration Education
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Tien, Hsiu-Lan Shelley – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2011
The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between vocational interests and work values among 206 adults in Taiwan. The instruments were the Career Interest Inventory developed based on Holland's RIASEC typology and the Work Value Inventory developed based on Super's theory. The results of multivariate analysis of variance…
Descriptors: Vocational Interests, Interest Inventories, Multivariate Analysis, Correlation
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Larson, Lisa M.; Wei, Meifen; Wu, Tsui-Feng; Borgen, Fred H.; Bailey, Donna C. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2007
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the Big Five personality factors, measured by the NEO Personality Inventory Five-Factor Inventory (Costa & McCrae, 1992), and vocational confidence across Holland's hexagon, measured by the Skills Confidence Inventory (SCI; Betz, Borgen, & Harmon, 2005), were useful in discriminating among…
Descriptors: Personality, Self Efficacy, Vocational Interests, Foreign Countries
Tien, Hsiu-Lan – 1997
The structure of the vocational interests of Taiwanese high school students was examined by using three models of occupational interest: Holland's hexagonal model; Gati's hexagonal model; and Rounds and Tracy's three-class partition model. A two-stage cluster sampling procedure was used to select the study participants. After 2 high schools had…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Tien, Hsiu-Lan; Hood, Albert B. – 1994
This paper describes a study designed to test the generalizability of Holland's hexagonal model of vocational interest structure in a Chinese culture. It was hypothesized that the results of multidimensional scaling would support Holland's hexagonal model of vocational interests. The instrument used was the Chinese Vocational Interest Inventory.…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Choice, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Research