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

• Main Authors: José Manuel Martínez Vicente, Isabel María Ángeles Segura
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Asociación Nacional de Psicología Evolutiva y Educativa de la Infancia Adolescencia Mayores y Discapacidad 2014-09-01
• Series: INFAD
• Subjects: conducta vocacional; elección vocacional; intereses vocacionales y profesionales; asesoramiento vocacional; habilidades; personalidad; autoeficacia
• Online Access: http://www.infad.eu/RevistaINFAD/OJS/index.php/IJODAEP/article/view/535

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 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.