《Chinese Journal of Rehabilitation Theory and Practice》 ›› 2017, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (9): 1108-1112.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-9771.2017.09.025

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Framework and Measurement of Vocational Psychological Quality for Postgraduate Students Majoring in Medical Sciences

SU Hong1, 2, CHEN Jun-guo2   

  1. 1. Department of Healthy and Aging-Services Branch Court, Chongqing City Management College, Chongqing 401331, China;
    2. Medical Education Teaching and Research Section, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
  • Received:2017-05-30 Revised:2017-06-30 Published:2017-09-25 Online:2017-10-10
  • Contact: Correspondence to SU Hong. E-mail: 350562419@qq.com

Abstract: ObjectiveTo explore framework and measure of vocational psychological quality for postgraduate students majoring in medical sciences in China. MethodsThe framework of vocational psychological quality had been developed based on the grounded theory. A structured and standardized questionnaire had been developed via field test for 95 postgraduates and interviews with 24 experts. A total of 1142 postgraduates had been measured with the final questionnaire. ResultsThe standardized questionnaire had been developed including 3 subscales from factor analysis, such as vocational cognition, vocational personality and vocational adaptation, with 13 factors and 62 items in total. The Cronbach's α coefficient was 0.902 for the whole questionnaire, and the split-half reliability was 0.747. The correlation coefficients between subscales and whole questionnaire was 0.401 to 0.929. ConclusionVocational cognition, vocational personality and vocational adaptation are the main constituents of the vocational psychological quality for postgraduates majoring in medical sciences. The questionnaire is acceptable in content and structure validity and internal consistency reliability.

Key words: postgraduates majoring in medical sciences, vocational psychological quality, questionnaire, reliability, validity

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