Abstract
Interests have been a central focus of counselling psychology (and vocational psychology in particular) for over 100 years. The awareness of professional interests increases self-knowledge and provides occupational information. In career counselling, vocational interests are assessed more frequently than any other vocational construct, though early evaluations (before 13 years old) of professional interests are very rare. The aim of this research is to examine the 3IP construct (Iconographic Professional Interests Inventory; an inventory composed of 65 stylised pictures that represent people in the act of performing a job) in depth, testing more models in addition to the 19 vocational areas proposed in the 3IP manual. Results show that most of the vocational areas can be grouped into 4 second-level areas (“things”, “people”, “leisure”, and “culture”). Moreover, Holland’s RIASEC model is tested; an accurate selection of items reveals that this model works well using 24 specific jobs. The research concludes that the inventory has good psychometric qualities which can grow further by mean of the increasing, in a targeted way, of the number of jobs.
Highlights
Interests have been a central focus of counselling psychology for over 100 years
It is widely assumed that vocational interests play an important role in satisfaction and achievement, both in study and work
Research into interest development is rare, but it is rarely studied among children; this is in part due to the lack of assessment instruments developed to work with this target
Summary
Interests have been a central focus of counselling psychology (and vocational psychology in particular) for over 100 years. Vocational interests are assessed more frequently than any other vocational construct, though early evaluations (before 13 years old) of professional interests are very rare. The research concludes that the inventory has good psychometric qualities which can grow further by mean of the increasing, in a targeted way, of the number of jobs. Definitions Dispositional interests, as opposed to situational interests (Silvia, 2006), are trait-like, reflecting a person’s preferences for behaviours, situations, contexts in which activities occur, and/or the outcomes associated with these preferred activities (Rounds, 1995)
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