Vocational Interests and Performance: A Quantitative Summary of Over 60 Years of Research
Vocational Interests and Performance: A Quantitative Summary of Over 60 Years of Research
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DOI：
10.1177/1745691612449021
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发表时间：
2012-07-01
影响因子：
12.6
通讯作者：
Drasgow, Fritz
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作者：
Nye, Christopher D.;Su, Rong;Drasgow, Fritz
尽管早期有人声称，职业兴趣可以用来区分成功的工人和上级学生从他们的同龄人，兴趣的措施通常被忽视的员工选择文献。然而，职业和教育心理学对职业兴趣的理论描述提出，兴趣结构应该与工作和学术环境中的表现和坚持有关。此外，根据Holland（1959，1997）的理论预测，衡量个人及其职业之间的相似性或人与环境的契合度的一致性指数，应该比单独的兴趣分数与绩效更密切相关。通过对跨越60多年研究的兴趣文献进行全面回顾，进行了荟萃分析来检查这些说法的真实性。一项文献检索确定了60项研究和大约568项相关性，这些研究涉及兴趣和表现之间的关系。结果表明，兴趣确实与工作和学术环境中的表现和坚持有关。此外，一致性指数和性能之间的相关性强于单独的兴趣分数。因此，与兴趣理论相一致，个人与环境之间的契合度比兴趣本身更能预测绩效。
Despite early claims that vocational interests could be used to distinguish successful workers and superior students from their peers, interest measures are generally ignored in the employee selection literature. Nevertheless, theoretical descriptions of vocational interests from vocational and educational psychology have proposed that interest constructs should be related to performance and persistence in work and academic settings. Moreover, on the basis of Holland's (1959, 1997) theoretical predictions, congruence indices, which quantify the degree of similarity or person-environment fit between individuals and their occupations, should be more strongly related to performance than interest scores alone. Using a comprehensive review of the interest literature that spans more than 60 years of research, a meta-analysis was conducted to examine the veracity of these claims. A literature search identified 60 studies and approximately 568 correlations that addressed the relationship between interests and performance. Results showed that interests are indeed related to performance and persistence in work and academic contexts. In addition, the correlations between congruence indices and performance were stronger than for interest scores alone. Thus, consistent with interest theory, the fit between individuals and their environment was more predictive of performance than interest alone.