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Factor Analysis On OCSE Of Graduate & The Study On Relations Among OCSE, Vocational Interest And Work Values

Posted on:2004-09-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y H HuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360092991669Subject:Basic Psychology
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Occupation choice is a crucial decision made by individuals under the influence of subjective and objective factors. Whether an individual makes a good or bad choice has a direct affect on the match degree between the individual and occupation, on the exert of a person's capability and the job performance of the organization. The objective factors are hard to be controlled, but the subjective factors can, in certain degree, be controlled by recognizing individual's psychical activity and thus improve the rationality of the choice. Since the beginning of 21sl century, scholars and researchers carried out the study on the subjective psychical factors influencing occupation of an individual through all kinds of means. Vocational interest and work values are the major factors concerned by psychologists and occupational-guide experts. The study showed that individuals don't choose their professions by just following their interests and values and there existed mid-factor-self-efficacy. In the 1980's, Betz and his colleagues, based on self-efficacy theory of Bandura, started to research individuals' occupational choice self-efficacy (abbreviated as OCSE). Based on the previous studies, the paper, according to social cognitive career theory, focuses on OCSE, vocational interest and work values that have affect on the occupational choice of the graduates. The paper also explores all the factors influencing graduates' occupational-choosing psycho and finds out rational and pragmatic solutions for directing occupational choices of the graduate.The study of OCSE in China is on the preliminary stage and not mature at all. The author, referring to the research by Betz and Zhengri Chang, considering the present situation of graduates' employment, designs a questionnaire as OCSE of Graduates according to the measure theory of self-efficacy. Adopting factor analysis method, the authors discovers there are six factors constituting OCSE of graduates. They are self-concept, self-evaluation, social support, occupational information accumulation, study capacity, and intending objects. The variance with the criterion variable of these six factors is 56.931% and inner identical coefficient a ) is 0.742, which proves thatthe questionnaire, in certain degree, can measure the graduates' OCSE.The author measures 286 graduates (including 159 male subjects and 127 female subjects) by applying the OCSE of graduates, Self-Directed Search of Holland and Work Values Questionnaire of Lingwen Quan. The author chooses subjects from different majors: 61 subjects in education, 50 in science, 86 in technology, 40 in law and 29 in economy and draws the following conclusions by analyzing the results:First, there is a difference of graduate's OCSE due to their gender and major: the OCSE of male subjects is higher than that of female ones; the OCSE of technology major is better than that of other majors. It shows in higher self-evaluation and better information-accumulating capability of male subjects. Boys are more active and confident than girls during the process of choosing a job. Students graduated from key universities or needy majors bear higher self-efficacy in the search of jobs because: on the one hand, the reputation puts its shadow on its graduates, resulting unfair competition among graduates; on the other hand, some majors are badly needed by society, which leading higher employment of their graduates and higher OCSE of the graduates.Secondly, there is a difference on type of vocational interest due to their gender and major. There are more Realistic Type vocational interest among male subjects than female ones and more Artistic Type and Conventional Type among female subjects than male ones. The main cause is that during the socialization, male and female develop different gender psycho. Students majoring in education and technology tend to be Realistic and Investigative Type vocational interest while those majoring in law tend to be Enterprising Type. Basically, students choose their major by their interests and four-ye...
Keywords/Search Tags:graduate, occupational choice self-efficacy (OCSE), vocational interest, work values
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