Elaboration of a psychological instrument to provide vocational guidance to the students who finish secondary in Lima - Peru

Authors

  • Hilda Chávez Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Facultad de Psicología. Lima, Perú
  • Eduardo Ruelas Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, Perú
  • Alex Grajeda Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Facultad de Psicología. Lima, Perú

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/rinvp.v22i1.16579

Keywords:

Psychological measurement; vocational guidance; multiple intelligences; attitude scales; personality; interests

Abstract

It was a technology, descriptive, comparative and transectional research that aimed to develop a psychological instrument oriented to obtain the professional profile of the different areas to which pre-university students apply to the universities of Lima, according to the variables preferences vocational and multiple intelligences. In order to achieve the aforementioned objective, a psychological vocation orientation instrument was elaborated whose structure includes the following professional areas: Health Sciences; Basic sciences; Engineering; Economics and Management Sciences; and, Humanities and Legal and Social Sciences. Whose results were reflected in: predominant professional area, chosen professional area and preferred professional area. The processing of the data obtained was developed using both the MS Excel Spreadsheet and the 24 version of the SPSS Statistical Software. For the analysis of these results, some control variables were used; such as: age, gender, type of educational institution of origin and district of residence. The evidence of validity was determined by content validity by expert judgment, with V of Aiken equal to 0.92, and the reliability for internal consistency through the Cronbach's Alpha coefficient α = 0.72; and by halves for the dimensions which oscillated between 0.40 and 0.74.

Author Biographies

  • Hilda Chávez, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Facultad de Psicología. Lima, Perú

    Docente de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, Perú.

  • Eduardo Ruelas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, Perú

    Docente Centro Pre, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, Perú.

  • Alex Grajeda, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Facultad de Psicología. Lima, Perú

    Docente de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, Perú.

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Published

2019-07-31

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Section

Investigaciones

How to Cite

Chávez, H., Ruelas, E., & Grajeda, A. (2019). Elaboration of a psychological instrument to provide vocational guidance to the students who finish secondary in Lima - Peru. Revista De Investigación En Psicología, 22(1), 29-38. https://doi.org/10.15381/rinvp.v22i1.16579