%0 Journal Article
%T Age and Gender Differences in the Variability of Vocational Interests
%A Andrei Ion
%A Christopher D. Nye
%A Drago£¿ Iliescu
%J Journal of Career Assessment
%@ 1552-4590
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1069072717748646
%X Gender- and age-related differences in the variability of various human attributes and abilities have been investigated. This article investigates the age and gender differences in the variability of Holland¡¯s six vocational dimensions with a sample including 1,519 participants, divided into four age groups: early adolescence (12¨C15 years old), adolescence (16¨C20 years old), young adulthood (21¨C30 years old), and adulthood (31¨C59 years old). The results showed nontrivial differences in the variability of vocational interests across gender and age groups alike. Although significant differences in variability were observed for all vocational interest dimensions except investigative, the most pronounced differences in variability across age and gender were observed for realistic and conventional dimensions. Generally, the observed differences in variability were larger in adolescence than in adulthood. Overall, vocational interests displayed less differentiation within the younger age groups (early adolescence and early adulthood) as compared to adulthood
%K vocational interests
%K variability
%K variance ratios
%K age
%K gender
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1069072717748646