Vocational Identity And Its Ralationship With Family Environment

Vocational identity is one of hot problems of vocational psychology, and the relationship between vocational identity and family environment has been studied by hundreds of researchers, but most subjects of the studies were adolescents in high school and college students, and the studies with adult workers as samples were less. And large numbers of researches were made overseas, but there was a few works in our nation. So, with adolescents in high school, college students and graduates who had worked for 1-5 years as samples, the current study was to examine the status of vocational identity, the influencing factors(based on demography variables) of vocational identity, and the relationship between vocational identity and family environment as defined along ten dimensions of family environment of the three samples. In addition, the study also compared the above three factors among the three samples.The Chinese version VIS and FES-CV were used to measure vocational identity and family environment (cohesion, expressiveness, conflict, independence, achievement orientation, intellectual-cultural orientation, active-recreational orientation, moral-religious emphasis, organization, control) of the three samples. One hundred and twelve high school students, one hundred and eleven college students, and one hundred and sixteen graduates completed measures of vocational identity, family environment. The t-test, ANOVA, correlation analysis, and regression analysis were used to analyze the data, and several conclusions were revealed as follows:1. The vocational identity of high school students(m=7.95,σ=3.58) and that of college students(m=8.37,σ=4.14) were both low, and the vocational identity of the graduates was fairly good(m=11.3,σ=4.16). And all three samples got the highest score on "vocational interest", and the lowest score on "Career decision-making". This shows that all three samples had some cognizance of their vocational interest, but they had no skills to make their career decisions according to their vocational interests.2. "Career decision-making" of high school students was significantly different between different territories, the high school students from Gansu had higher level of "Career decision-making" than those from Shanghai; "career goals stability" of college students was significantly different between genders, the male college students had higher level of "career goals stability" than female students, and "capacity assessment" of college students was significantly different between birthplaces, urban college students had higher level of "capacity assessment" than rural students; in addition, there were educational level significant differences among "capacity assessment" and "career goals stability" of graduates.3. The quality of family environment of three samples all played a significant role in predicting vocational identity, and the biggest role is in high school students(13.3%). And for different samples, different dimensions of family environment were correlated positively with vocational identity:for adolescents in high school, the dimensions were intellectual-cultural orientation and active-recreational orientation; for college students, the dimension was intellectual-cultural orientation, and for graduates who had worked for 1-5 years, the dimensions were cohesion, expressiveness, active-recreational orientation and organization. This shows individuals with higher score on cohesion, expressiveness, intellectual-cultural orientation, active-recreational orientation and organization of family environment were more likely to achieve higher level of vocational identity.