This study tests the validity of Holland's (1985a) principles regarding the parent-offspring vocational type agreement in immigrant families. Moreover, it examines and compares the influence of parental ethnicity, SES and level of education on the parental-offspring type agreement in immigrant and non-immigrant families. Finally, it explores the role of child's gender on the parent-offspring type agreement. / Data were collected through the administration of (1) The Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI, revised) (Holland, 1985b), and (2) The Personal Data Questionnaire (PDQ) (developed by the researcher) to high school and college students. The immigrant sample consisted of 100 Canadian-born children of Greek-born immigrants to Canada. The non-immigrant sample consisted of 80 children of Canadian-born, Anglophone parents. / The results revealed: (a) no significantly high agreement between Parental and Offspring Typology in either ethnic group; (b) no significant influence of parental ethnicity, SES or level of education on the Parent-Offspring Type agreement in either ethnic group; (c) significant influence of offspring's gender on the Parent-Offspring Type agreement, which is higher for the male than the female offspring, in both ethnic groups. / The above results do not validate Holland's (1985a) propositions that parental types produce similar vocational types of offspring in immigrant or non-immigrant families. Yet, it was found that parents do influence offspring's vocational choices, in ways that need to be further studied with larger samples of different ethnic populations.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.28545 |
| Date | January 1994 |
| Creators | Tsakanika, Monika Domenica |
| Contributors | Hum, Andrew (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology.) |
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| Relation | alephsysno: 001425943, proquestno: NN00142, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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