National Standardization of the Occupational Field Interest Inventory (OFII) for Turkish Culture According to Age and Gender

Deniz K. Z.

EURASIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, vol.13, no.50, pp.163-184, 2013 (SSCI) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 13 Issue: 50
  • Publication Date: 2013
  • Journal Name: EURASIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
  • Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Page Numbers: pp.163-184
  • Keywords: standardization of Turkish culture, age norm, gender norm, Occupational Field Interest Inventory (OFII), VOCATIONAL INTERESTS, CONCURRENT VALIDITY, STABILITY, DEPRESSION, VALIDATION, CHILDREN, PEOPLE, THINGS
  • Ankara University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Problem statement: Interest can be defined as "when an individual pays attention to an object without special effort, maintains her/his attention for a long time, and is aware of and transforms this attentiveness into a response and an attitude." Vocational interests indicate an individual's feelings about employment, courses of study, hobbies, free time activities and life choices. A multitude of interest inventories are used for measuring vocational interest throughout the world. Currently in the Republic of Turkey, however, there are very few available interest inventories being utilized for educational and/or research purposes. Most of them are only used to established norms.