Vocational interests of intellectually gifted and highly achieving young adults

Vock, Miriam; Köller, Olaf; Nagy, Gabriel

doi:10.1111/j.2044-8279.2011.02063.x

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“…Apparently, they do not participate in the competition just for winning. The results also stand in contrast to former findings reporting stereotypical outcomes like strong interests in social activities for girls and strong interests in investigative activities for boys (Vock, Köller, & Nagy, 2012). The adapted model and new instrument therefore promises more differentiated analyses and insights into young students' interests in science to better adapt fostering measures and thereby get more talented students into science and the whole STEM field-as future scientists or as open-minded citizens.…”

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Scientists of the future: an analysis of talented students’ interests

2019

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Background: Nowadays, scientists not only need to be creative, resourceful, and inventive regarding their research questions and need to understand their field and research methods, but also need to know how to teach, how to catalog, how to fill out proposal forms, and much more. The main goal of this study was to investigate and compare science interest profiles of different groups of students, focusing both on successful participants in science competitions and on possible gender differences. We expected that successful participants in science competitions would generally have greater interests in scientific activities than non-participants but were especially interested in such areas we expect from successful scientists today, thereby helping us judge the design of successful enrichment measures.Results: Significant mean differences in interest in science activities between participants and non-participants of science competitions were found on six of seven dimensions as well as regarding in-school activities, activities in enrichment measures, and vocational interests. The differences were especially large concerning investigative, social, enterprising, and networking activities. Moreover, we found differences between girls and boys on the social and artistic dimensions, meaning that girls were significantly more interested in science activities which also had an artistic and creative aspect such as drawing or a social aspect such as teaching. Conclusions: We not only found overall differences to-be-expected favoring the participants, but also could also identify specific profiles. Especially large differences were consistently found in those areas which could be regarded as especially important for most researchers. Our findings might help developing measures and activities to foster the interest in science activities for "regular" students as well as for especially talented students.

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“…Rozdiely nachádzame aj v profesijných záujmoch a preferenciách nadaných študentov. K takýmto záverom dospeli napríklad dve štúdie uskutočnené na území Nemecka (Sparfeldt, 2007;Vock, Köller, Nagy, 2013). Obe sa opierali o Hollandov model profesijných zameraní, známy aj pod akronymom RIASEC, ktorý na základe profesijných záujmov rozlišuje šesť osobnostných typov (Holland, Rayman, 1986): -realistický typ (záujem o stroje, nástroje, prácu s objektmi, fyzickú prácu), -investigatívny typ (záujem o objavovanie, intelektuálnu prácu), -umelecký typ (záujem o umelecké, kreatívne činnosti), -sociálny typ (záujem o prácu s ľuďmi a pre ľudí), -podnikavý typ (záujem o vedenie druhých, financie, politiku), -konvenčný typ (záujem o jasne štruktúrované činnosti, prácu s číslami, textom, administratívnu prácu).…”

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Kariérový vývin je v porovnaní s ostatnými oblasťami života intelektovo nadaných ľudí pomerne málo diskutovanou a skúmanou témou. Predkladaná prehľadová štúdia sa venuje špecifickým problémom, ktoré sprevádzajú voľbu povolania nadaných žiakov a študentov (multipotencialita, skorá kariérová zrelosť, vysoké očakávania okolia, perfekcionizmus) a poukazuje na vybrané rozdiely medzi intelektovo nadanými a ich rovesníkmi pri rozhodovaní o ďalšom profesijnom smerovaní. Príspevok tiež zdôrazňuje význam kariérového poradenstva pre nadaných a formuluje niekoľko odporúčaní pre poradenskú prácu s nadaným klientom. Kariérové úspechy nadaných dospelých mapovali americké longitudinálne štúdie. Podobne spokojnosť nadaných dospelých s kariérou bola predmetom záujmu zahraničných autorov. Nakoľko sú v profesijnom živote úspešní a spokojní absolventi našich domácich vzdelávacích programov pre nadaných, zatiaľ nie je známe a táto problematika by si zaslúžila väčšiu pozornosť.

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“…In Ansätzen wurden diese Wirkungsgefüge auch für den naturwissenschaftlichen Bereich belegt (Hannover und Kessels 2002;Taskinen et al 2008). Generelle Unterschiede innerhalb der korrespondierenden Variablen (Naturwissenschaftliches Interesse und Selbstkonzept/Selbstwirksamkeitserwartungen) wurden insbesondere zwischen den Geschlechtern und in Abhängigkeit von unterschiedlichen Schulleistungen aufgedeckt (Sjodberg und Imsen 1988;Vock et al 2013). Motive und Interessensmuster, die eher Mädchen für einen naturwissenschaftlichen Werdegang beeinflussen, wurden überwiegend durch qualitative Erhebungen erfasst (Baker und Leary 1995;Brown und Gilligan 1993).…”

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Schülerkonzepte über das Tätigkeitsspektrum von Naturwissenschaftlerinnen und Naturwissenschaftlern: Vorstellungen, korrespondierende Interessen und Selbstwirksamkeitserwartungen

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Parchmann

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Students' views about scientists' activities constitute a basis for vocational orientation in the field of science. Previous instruments are not able to cover students' views about the wide field of modern scientists' activities. This article presents the development and testing of the Nature of Scientists (NoSt)-questionnaire. It contains scales to analyze students' interests and their self-efficacy next to their views about scientists' activities. The instrument is based on Hollands' RIASEC-model (Psychological Reports 12, 547-594, 1963, Making vocational choices: A theory of vocational personalities and work enviroments, 1997). Quality criteria and first results about students´ views, interests and their self-efficacy according to scientists' activities are reported.

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Vocational interests of intellectually gifted and highly achieving young adults

Abstract: At the time around graduation from high school, gifted young adults show stable interest profiles, which strongly differ between gender and intelligence groups. These differences are relevant for programmes for the gifted and for vocational counselling.

Cited by 40 publications

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Scientists of the future: an analysis of talented students’ interests

Scientists of the future: an analysis of talented students’ interests

Kariérové cesty intelektovo nadaných ľudí

Schülerkonzepte über das Tätigkeitsspektrum von Naturwissenschaftlerinnen und Naturwissenschaftlern: Vorstellungen, korrespondierende Interessen und Selbstwirksamkeitserwartungen

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