Department of Management and Organizations.
Department of Psychological Sciences.
J Appl Psychol. 2019 May;104(5):690-714. doi: 10.1037/apl0000373. Epub 2018 Dec 13.
Growing evidence on the predictive validity of vocational interests for job performance calls for greater consideration of interest assessment in organizations. However, a consensus on the fundamental dimensions of interests that are aligned with the contemporary world of work is still lacking. In the current research, we developed an organizing framework of vocational interests and empirically validated an 8-dimension model (SETPOINT: Health Science, Creative xpression, echnology, eople, rganization, nfluence, ature, and hings). We propose that interests are structured hierarchically, with preferences for specific work activities at the lowest level (assessed using interest items), basic interests for homogeneous classes of activities at the intermediate level (assessed using basic interest scales), and broad-band interest dimensions describing general tendencies of individuals to be drawn to or motivated by broad types of work environments at the top. To derive broad-band interest dimensions, it is necessary to base it on a comprehensive range of content-specific basic interest constructs. In Study 1, we conducted an extensive review of existing basic interest scales and developed a new assessment of basic interests with 41 homogeneous scales across two samples. In Study 2, we demonstrated the structural validity of the proposed dimensional model using second-order confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory structural equation modeling with a large, diverse sample of working adults and supported its predictive validity for occupational membership in new and traditional sectors of work. We discuss implications from the current findings for building interest theory, using interest assessment for organizational research, and evaluating interest structure with appropriate methods. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
职业兴趣对工作绩效的预测有效性的证据越来越多，这就要求在组织中更多地考虑兴趣评估。然而，对于与当代工作世界相一致的基本兴趣维度，仍然缺乏共识。在当前的研究中，我们开发了一个职业兴趣的组织框架，并通过实证验证了一个 8 维度模型（SETPOINT：健康科学、创意表达、技术、人、组织、影响、自然和事物）。我们提出兴趣是分层结构的，最低层次是对特定工作活动的偏好（使用兴趣项目评估），中间层次是对同质活动类别的基本兴趣（使用基本兴趣量表评估），最高层次是描述个人对广泛类型的工作环境感兴趣或受其激励的一般倾向的广谱兴趣维度。为了得出广谱兴趣维度，有必要基于广泛的特定内容的基本兴趣结构。在研究 1 中，我们对现有的基本兴趣量表进行了广泛的回顾，并在两个样本中开发了一种新的基本兴趣评估方法，共包含 41 个同质量表。在研究 2 中，我们使用二阶验证性因素分析和探索性结构方程模型，对大量多样化的在职成年人进行了研究，证明了所提出的维度模型的结构有效性，并支持了其对新的和传统工作领域职业归属的预测有效性。我们讨论了当前研究结果对兴趣理论构建、组织研究中使用兴趣评估以及使用适当方法评估兴趣结构的意义。（心理学信息数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。
