Abstract
A hypothetical descriptive behavioral model extending the theory of planned behavior (TPB) was examined for subjective perceived control beliefs as antecedents of the apprenticeship orientation for vocational-educational training (VET). Attributes of self-regulation and self-regulatory systems in belief formation, and affective evaluation, were expected to vary with student choice of apprenticeship in an educational path. A research question concerning initiative, independence, and self-guidance, hypothesized to be proximal antecedents of part-time job willingness and apprenticeship willingness was answered. A survey of ninth-grade students in Finnish comprehensive school was conducted after implementation of a work-orientation program. At the local school system level, 649 subjects of the mean ages of 16.0 years participated in a web-based survey in two school districts in the south-west of Finland in 2010. The observed variables were inserted for Path Analysis conducted in IBM Analysis of Moment Structures. Factor Analysis was used as a preliminary step for Path Analysis. The variables formed a fitting belief-based path model for the interaction of initiative, independence, and self-guidance in apprenticeship conation. Part-time Job willingness served as a mediating variable. Independence interest belief and the mediating variable part-time willingness correlated negatively. Initiative showing interest and self-guidance want contributed positively to apprenticeship conation. The findings gave tentative evidence of subjective antecedent beliefs linking Self-Direction and Apprenticeship willingness.
Highlights
A hypothetical descriptive behavioral model extending the theory of planned behavior (TPB) was examined for subjective perceived control beliefs as antecedents of the apprenticeship orientation for vocational-educational training (VET)
The attitude construct in this paper followed the Fishbein and Ajzen expectancy model (1975) where we obtained a belief-based measure of attitude (Ajzen 1991, p191). Attitude in this case was defined as the overall attitude toward apprenticeship as a choice of further training and continued education, and the beliefs were subjective probabilities of the relations of initiative, independence, and self-guidance to part-time job willingness and apprenticeship
Multivariate data missing at random (MAR) were made ready for Path Analysis by multiple imputation (MI)
Summary
A research question concerning initiative, independence, and self-guidance, hypothesized to be proximal antecedents of part-time job willingness and apprenticeship willingness was answered. A survey of ninth-grade students in Finnish comprehensive school was conducted after implementation of a work-orientation program. At the local school system level, 649 subjects of the mean ages of 16.0 years participated in a web-based survey in two school districts in the south-west of Finland in 2010. The observed variables were inserted for Path Analysis conducted in IBM Analysis of Moment Structures. Factor Analysis was used as a preliminary step for Path Analysis
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