Probing the vocational interests of youths from disadvantaged families by multidimensional scaling and person-fit indices

• Main Authors: Yen-Jung Huang, 黃彥榮
• Other Authors: Huang, Tsai-Wei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/vxm65t

碩士 === 國立嘉義大學 === 輔導與諮商學系研究所 === 107 === This study aimed to probe the vocational interests of youths from disadvantaged families, took “A Questionnaire on the Vocational Interests of Youths” adapted by researchers as the research tool and selected a total of 416 youths from Grade 5 of primary schools to Grade 3 of junior high schools in the northern, central, southern and eastern regions of Taiwan as research objects. In addition, this study applied multidimensional scaling and person-fit indices to analyze the spatial distribution of vocational interests of youths from disadvantaged families of different background variables, probe into their differences and draw a joint spatial distribution diagram. The main results of this study were summarized as follows: 1.Youths from overall disadvantaged families were the highest in “social” vocational interest. Youths of different genders showed significant differences in four types of vocational interests including “realistic, investigative, artistic and social”. Youths of different grades only showed significant differences in “investigative” vocational interest. Youths of different educational systems showed significant differences in “realistic, investigative, artistic, social and enterprising” vocational interests. Youths from different disadvantaged family types showed no significant differences. 2.The spatial arrangement of vocational interests of youths from overall disadvantaged families was "I-R-A-S-E-C", which did not completely support Holland’s vocational interest type theory, but conformed to the interest hierarchy of Gati and three-population model of Rounds & Tracy. 3.In the aspect of vocational interests, youths from different types of disadvantaged families can be divided into three clusters, including "single-parent, low and middle-income, and multiple disadvantaged families", "new inhabitant, aboriginal and grandparenting families" and "families with mental and physical disabilities". 4.Youths from aboriginal families showed the most obvious tendency to "artistic" vocational interest. Youths from families with mental and physical disabilities showed the most obvious tendency to "social" vocational interest. 5.The response set of youths from overall disadvantaged families was the highest in "C (Cognition)". Youths of different genders showed significant differences in "W (Within-trait) and B (Beyond-trait)". Youths of different educational systems showed significant differences in four types including "W (Within-trait), B (Beyond-trait), C (Cognition) and M (Misconception)". Youths from different family types showed no significant differences in the response set of their vocational interests. 6.In the overall joint space of response set of vocational interests of youths from different family types, three were three clusters, including "youths from grandparenting, new inhabitant, low and middle-income, and multiple disadvantaged families", "youths from aboriginal families" and "youths from families with mental and physical disabilities". 7.Youths from different family types were the highest in C (Cognition) among all types of vocational interests including "realistic, investigative, artistic, social and enterprising", thereinto: 1)Youths from single-parent families had potential W (Within-trait) in "enterprising" and "conventional" vocational interests. 2)Youths from grandparenting families had potential W (Within-trait) in "realistic" and "enterprising" vocational interests. 3)Youths from new inhabitant families had potential W (Within-trait) in "conventional" vocational interest. 4)Youths from aboriginal families had potential W (Within-trait) in "enterprising" vocational interest. 5)Youths from low and middle-income families had potential B (Beyond-trait) in "social" vocational interest. 6)Youths from families with mental and physical disabilities had potential B (Beyond-trait) in "social" and "enterprising" vocational interests and potential W (Within-trait) in "conventional" vocational interest. 7)Youths from families with multiple disadvantaged families had potential B (Beyond-trait) in "social" and "enterprising" vocational interests and potential W (Within-trait) in "conventional" vocational interest. Finally, this study presented conclusions and suggestions according to research results for the reference of workers and follow-up researchers in related fields.