000K utf8 1100 $c2019 1500 eng 2050 urn:nbn:de:gbv:8-diss-259797 3000 Etzel, Julian Michael 4000 Advances in the analysis and measurement of vocational interest profiles$dA case for the profile-centered perspective$hChristian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel [Etzel, Julian Michael] 4030 Kiel$nChristian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 4209 In this dissertation, I pursued two overarching goals. First, in two empirical studies, I demonstrated the advantages of analyzing interest stability and person-environment congruence of trainees in vocational education and training as well as interest similarity within families on the level of interest profiles. I was able to show that both interest profiles and P-E congruence are relatively stable over time and that family members have significantly similar interest profiles over and above gender-normativeness. Second, I conducted two validation studies of a new instrument to assess vocational interests in the sense of the spherical model of vocational interests-a logical extension of the RIASEC model-which uses a more differentiated categorization of the circumplex and introduces a third dimension (Prestige): the Personal Globe Inventory (PGI) and its associated short version (PGI-S). In sum, I found evidence for the instruments' structural, convergent, and criterion based validity, the equivalence of these validity markers across versions, but also some crucial differences between PGI and PGI-S that primarily concern the Prestige dimension. Taken together, this thesis demonstrates challenges, advantages, and potential solutions of a profile-centered perspective on vocational interest research. I was able to shed some new light on central applied questions about vocational interest development in adolescence and presented a new instrument for German interest researchers that makes it possible to reliably and validly assess more elaborate vocational interest profiles. 4950 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:8-diss-259797$xR$3Volltext$534 4961 https://macau.uni-kiel.de/receive/diss_mods_00025979 5051 150 5550 circumplex 5550 interest profiles 5550 Personal Globe Inventory 5550 spherical model 5550 vocational interests