James A Athanasou
Biographic Data
| ID | 5557392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James A Athanasou |
| GIVEN NAMES | James A |
| FAMILY NAME | Athanasou |
| SIGNATURE | ATHANASOU J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4743-4098 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rating of Vocational Interests Under Matching and Nonmatching Conditions
Rating of Vocational Interests Under Matching and Nonmatching Conditions
Rating of Vocational Interests under Matching and Nonmatching Conditions
This study examined whether high school students were better able to assess their scores on an interest inventory when the self-ratings were either matched or unmatched with the interest categories in an interest inventory. Students (N = 329) completed the Career Interest Test and a survey containing the same seven interest dimensions (Outdoor, Practical, Scientific, Creative, Business, Office, and People Contact). At the same time they completed…
The effect of unemployment on mental health
Sixteen recent longitudinal studies are examined for evidence relevant to the claim that a change to one's employment status affects one's mental health. Although there were limitations to the set of studies examined, most of the studies supported this claimed relationship. Examination was then made of the size of this effect. In carrying out this examination, the set of study results were divided into two categories: (a) those addressing the que…
Australian Data for Forms A, B, and C of the Personnel Selection Tests
Data for the Personnel Selection Tests Forms A, B, and C were obtained in three separate studies of 1,049, 619, and 214 high school pupils, university students, and employees. Analysis indicated low subtest intercorrelations that increased uniformly across Forms A, B, and C. Sex and age effects on the total scores varied across each form of the test
Perceptions of interest
This study tested recent German theories of the nature of human interest, in which it is hypothesised that individual interest is composed of cognitive, emotional, and value components. Using an idiographic design based on representative sampling of a classroom ecology, 10 judges rated 108 student profiles for the level of actualised interest. The profiles were obtained from 27 random experience samples using 17 cues: level of skill, knowledge, s…
Parental Attitudes
The adaptation of attitudes toward parents following migration was tested in a transnational study of Greek, German, and second-generation immigrant Greek adolescents in Germany (N = 342). Three major factors resulted on the first section of the Attitudes Towards Parents Inventory and these corresponded to parental involvement, achievement motivation, and family cohesion. Principal component analysis of the second section extracted the two factor…
General Issues about Assessment of Competence
In simple terms, competency‐based assessment is the assessment of a person's competence against prescribed standards of performance. Thus, if an occupation has established a set of, say, entry‐level competency standards, then these prescribe the standards of performance required of all new entrants to that occupation. Competency‐based assessment is the process determining whether a candidate meets the prescribed standards of performance, i.e. whe…
Self-estimates of vocational interests
The relationships between self-estimates of vocational interests and inventory scores have been the subject of research since 1941, but to date there has been no comprehensive review of that literature. Thirty-seven articles relating to self-evaluation of vocational interests were located in manual and computer searches of the psychological literature. The median values of 24 rank correlations (between self-estimated and measured interests) deriv…
Self-reports of vocational interests
Self-ratings of six career interests - Practical, Scientific, Artistic, Social, Business, and Clerical - were obtained from 1,610 high-school pupils. These self-ratings correlated significantly with measured interests, and complied with the Campbell-Fiske criteria for convergent and discriminant validity. The correlation of self-reports with other psychological constructs such as intelligence and personality is reported for a sample of 541 subjec…
Career interests and ethnic backgrounds
Super and Crites (1962) have hypothesized that certain kinds of social environments encourage the development and expression of particular interests, while inhibiting the development or manifestation of others. This study tested the hypothesis that cultural factors exert a direct influence on measured vocational interests. Subjects (606 men and 524 women), with a median age of 15.4 years were selected from 2708 career guidance applicants througho…
Comparison of measured vocational interests with self-estimates
This study tested the hypothesis that measured vocational interests and self-estimates of these reflect a common domain of psychometric behaviour. Previous attempts to relate interest inventory results to self-estimates by product-moment and rank correlation methods have generally yielded low lo moderate coefficients. This paper presents the first application of multivariate analysis of regression, variance and covariance to this problem. Self-es…
Factorial Validity of the Vocational Interest Scales of the Holland Vocational Preference Inventory for Australian High School Students
The purpose of the present report was to identify the structure of the six vocational interests measured by the Holland Vocational Preference Inventory. Two independent samples of Australian high school students were used—101 males in the first study and 99 subjects (44 males and 55 females) in the second study. Principal components analysis with rotation to the varimax criterion was carried out on the 6 by 6 interscale correlation matrices. Comp…
Classification of vocational interest factors on the Brook Reaction Test
The Brook Reaction Test (BRT) is an objection word association test that provides an indirect measure of 22 personal interests. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether there were factors underlying 10 vocational interest categories on the BRT and a further category designated in the BRT Manual as ‘unclassified’. The BRT was administered as part of a battery of selection tests to 325 males. The 11 scales were analysed using a pri…
Perceptions of interest
This study tested recent German theories of the nature of human interest, in which it is hypothesised that individual interest is composed of cognitive, emotional, and value components. Using an idiographic design based on representative sampling of a classroom ecology, 10 judges rated 108 student profiles for the level of actualised interest. The profiles were obtained from 27 random experience samples using 17 cues: level of skill, knowledge, s…
Self-estimates of vocational interests
The relationships between self-estimates of vocational interests and inventory scores have been the subject of research since 1941, but to date there has been no comprehensive review of that literature. Thirty-seven articles relating to self-evaluation of vocational interests were located in manual and computer searches of the psychological literature. The median values of 24 rank correlations (between self-estimated and measured interests) deriv…
Self-reports of vocational interests
Self-ratings of six career interests - Practical, Scientific, Artistic, Social, Business, and Clerical - were obtained from 1,610 high-school pupils. These self-ratings correlated significantly with measured interests, and complied with the Campbell-Fiske criteria for convergent and discriminant validity. The correlation of self-reports with other psychological constructs such as intelligence and personality is reported for a sample of 541 subjec…
Classification of vocational interest factors on the Brook Reaction Test
The Brook Reaction Test (BRT) is an objection word association test that provides an indirect measure of 22 personal interests. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether there were factors underlying 10 vocational interest categories on the BRT and a further category designated in the BRT Manual as ‘unclassified’. The BRT was administered as part of a battery of selection tests to 325 males. The 11 scales were analysed using a pri…
Factorial Validity of the Vocational Interest Scales of the Holland Vocational Preference Inventory for Australian High School Students
The purpose of the present report was to identify the structure of the six vocational interests measured by the Holland Vocational Preference Inventory. Two independent samples of Australian high school students were used—101 males in the first study and 99 subjects (44 males and 55 females) in the second study. Principal components analysis with rotation to the varimax criterion was carried out on the 6 by 6 interscale correlation matrices. Comp…
Comparison of measured vocational interests with self-estimates
This study tested the hypothesis that measured vocational interests and self-estimates of these reflect a common domain of psychometric behaviour. Previous attempts to relate interest inventory results to self-estimates by product-moment and rank correlation methods have generally yielded low lo moderate coefficients. This paper presents the first application of multivariate analysis of regression, variance and covariance to this problem. Self-es…
Career interests and ethnic backgrounds
Super and Crites (1962) have hypothesized that certain kinds of social environments encourage the development and expression of particular interests, while inhibiting the development or manifestation of others. This study tested the hypothesis that cultural factors exert a direct influence on measured vocational interests. Subjects (606 men and 524 women), with a median age of 15.4 years were selected from 2708 career guidance applicants througho…
Self-reports of vocational interests
Self-ratings of six career interests - Practical, Scientific, Artistic, Social, Business, and Clerical - were obtained from 1,610 high-school pupils. These self-ratings correlated significantly with measured interests, and complied with the Campbell-Fiske criteria for convergent and discriminant validity. The correlation of self-reports with other psychological constructs such as intelligence and personality is reported for a sample of 541 subjec…
Self-estimates of vocational interests
The relationships between self-estimates of vocational interests and inventory scores have been the subject of research since 1941, but to date there has been no comprehensive review of that literature. Thirty-seven articles relating to self-evaluation of vocational interests were located in manual and computer searches of the psychological literature. The median values of 24 rank correlations (between self-estimated and measured interests) deriv…
General Issues about Assessment of Competence
In simple terms, competency‐based assessment is the assessment of a person's competence against prescribed standards of performance. Thus, if an occupation has established a set of, say, entry‐level competency standards, then these prescribe the standards of performance required of all new entrants to that occupation. Competency‐based assessment is the process determining whether a candidate meets the prescribed standards of performance, i.e. whe…
Parental Attitudes
The adaptation of attitudes toward parents following migration was tested in a transnational study of Greek, German, and second-generation immigrant Greek adolescents in Germany (N = 342). Three major factors resulted on the first section of the Attitudes Towards Parents Inventory and these corresponded to parental involvement, achievement motivation, and family cohesion. Principal component analysis of the second section extracted the two factor…
Perceptions of interest
This study tested recent German theories of the nature of human interest, in which it is hypothesised that individual interest is composed of cognitive, emotional, and value components. Using an idiographic design based on representative sampling of a classroom ecology, 10 judges rated 108 student profiles for the level of actualised interest. The profiles were obtained from 27 random experience samples using 17 cues: level of skill, knowledge, s…
The effect of unemployment on mental health
Sixteen recent longitudinal studies are examined for evidence relevant to the claim that a change to one's employment status affects one's mental health. Although there were limitations to the set of studies examined, most of the studies supported this claimed relationship. Examination was then made of the size of this effect. In carrying out this examination, the set of study results were divided into two categories: (a) those addressing the que…
Australian Data for Forms A, B, and C of the Personnel Selection Tests
Data for the Personnel Selection Tests Forms A, B, and C were obtained in three separate studies of 1,049, 619, and 214 high school pupils, university students, and employees. Analysis indicated low subtest intercorrelations that increased uniformly across Forms A, B, and C. Sex and age effects on the total scores varied across each form of the test
Rating of Vocational Interests Under Matching and Nonmatching Conditions
Rating of Vocational Interests Under Matching and Nonmatching Conditions
Rating of Vocational Interests under Matching and Nonmatching Conditions
This study examined whether high school students were better able to assess their scores on an interest inventory when the self-ratings were either matched or unmatched with the interest categories in an interest inventory. Students (N = 329) completed the Career Interest Test and a survey containing the same seven interest dimensions (Outdoor, Practical, Scientific, Creative, Business, Office, and People Contact). At the same time they completed…
Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Statistics (8 works) · Vocational education (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Applied Psychology (4 works) · Career Development and Diversity (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works)