L’évolution des interêts professionnels des lycéens de classe de première : 1970–2005

Abstract

Both (male and female) forms of an interests inventory, the QIP/m and QIP/f, have been completed by two samples of students in eleventh grade in 2005: one of 200 males and 337 females, the other of 181 males and 268 females. Results have been compared with those obtained in 1970. On the one hand appear rises: rise of interests for business occupations; rise of interests for administrative occupations in males (when these interests are stable in females) and of interests for home occupations in females (not assessed in males). On the other hand appear falls: fall of interests for scientific occupations (especially in females) and for technical occupations; fall of interests for occupations close to nature in males (not assessed in females). Variations in interests for literary, altruistic and sport occupations are inconsistent and differences between genders do not seem notably modified. All these variations are coherent with those elsewhere observed on general interests and values of students; they seem to follow a global social evolution, but they indicate future discrepancies between expectations of the young and offers of the labour market.