Psychological classification of students with and without handicaps : a test of Holland's theory in Ethiopia
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Jyväskylä Studies in Education, Psychology and Social ResearchTekijät
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1994Pääsyrajoitukset
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School psychologists have begun to assume greater responsibility for the vocational interest assessment of students who are handicapped and nonhandicapped. To this effect, Holland's Self-Directed Search (SOS), a simple and inexpensive assessment instrument evolved out of Holland's typological theory, frequently is administered for measuring vocational choices of students and incumbents in the USA and in many other countries. This study was undertaken to investigate the adequacy of Holland's SOS and its classification system in Ethiopia and to determine whether the visually handicapped and nonhandicapped students are significantly similar or different in their vocational choices (vocational interests and personality). The subjects for this study were 101 visually handicapped students (54 from 11th and 47 from 12th grades) and equal number of sighted peers aged from 15-20 who were enrolled in 4 ordinary high schools in Addis Ababa. The sample was evenly divided according to age, gender, grade level, and academic scores. The measured and expressed vocational choices of the sample students were included in this study. The measured interests of the students were determined through the administration of an adapted and translated version of the SOS. The data for their expressed interests were obtained by asking the students to write their job preferences using the "Occupations section" of the adapted SOS. Pertinent to their measured interests, both groups have shown significant differences in their primary vocational choices. About 65 % of the handicapped and 32% of the nonhandicapped fell in Social category. The distribution of their choice patterns has not been fairly even among the remaining five Holland categories. The handicapped group showed no preference in Conventional category. In terms of choice pattern, SEA was the highest occurring code. However, 25.7 % and 7.9 % of the SEA accounted for the handicapped and nonhandicapped' responses, respectively. In general, SAERI, and SIERAC were the choice profiles of the handicapped and nonhandicapped samples. There were little differences in expressed preferences between the two groups of students. The relationship between measured and expressed choices as determined by Kappa value for the handicapped sample was .30, while for nonhandicapped was .26. The Cramer's V value also showed .35 for the handicapped and .33 for the nonhandicapped. Finally, the fit of the Circumplex model to the data as determined by the Circumplex hypothesis testing strategy using the LISREL programme was somehow satisfactory for the nonhandicapped group. The study in general discusses the wider implicatons of psychological classification in matching persons and work/ educational environments and in rational understanding of vocational choices from the subject's own frame of reference in order to provide counselling and rehabilitation services.
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