Vocational Value Profiles of Students with Preferential Vocational Interest in Sport and Their Relationship with Personal and Academic Wellbeing

In recent years there has been a significant increase in the number of students who choose to pursue university studies related to the field of sports. However, there are no studies that have investigated the existence of differentiated profiles within students whose preferred vocational area is sport. The main objective of this study was to establish the profiles of students in the second year of Spain Bachillerato whose preferred vocational interest is sport, according to the two representative vocational values: (a) “to have a fun professional activity”; and (b) “to have a professional activity whose schedule makes it possible to reconcile personal and professional life”. In addition, the resulting groups were compared according to their perception of general and academic wellbeing and their identification with the other vocational values. Two hundred and thirty participants (MAge = 17.47; DTAge = 0.669; N = 171; 74.3% male and N = 59; 25.7% female) completed some validated measures. Three clusters emerged which did not differ in terms of general and academic wellbeing. Differences were found though in terms of some vocational values such “to help people”, “to develop one’s entrepreneurial initiative” or “to be self-employed”. The findings invite us to rethink the differences in the specific profiles of vocational values and their impact on employability opportunities, and to consider these approaches in the orientation of students who have among their priority options to study sport sciences.

The Relationship between Vocational Personality Types and Vocational Values

In this study, the relationship between high school students’ vocational personality types and vocational values was examined. The study data were collected from 488 high school students going to schools in Niğde city center. In the study, Vocational Personality Types Inventory and Vocational Value Inventory were administered. Canonical correlation analysis technique was used to analyze the data. The study results revealed that the canonical model was significant, and when the data on canonical functions were evaluated separately, three canonical functions were found significant. The common variance shared between the data sets of the canonical variables showing that there was a significant relationship between occupational personality types and occupational values were 44% for the first canonical function, 30% for the second canonical function and 11% for the third canonical function, respectively. The findings were discussed in the light of the related literature.

The Martyred Heart

This chapter examines the hierarchical relationships between nurses and physicians at HolyCare Hospital. If relationships at PubliCare were relatively egalitarian and informal, at HolyCare they were hierarchical and codified. Paradoxically, in the name of the “patient experience,” most of the people working at HolyCare seemed relatively miserable. This was true across many different strata of hospital staff members. One physician administrator at PubliCare suggested that there was a “lack of collegiality” at HolyCare. Nurses and ancillary workers described the experience of working at HolyCare as one defined by fear and insecurity. The chapter considers how social values at HolyCare retained a degree of autonomy from exchange relations. It shows that the vocational values through which managers sought to secure an obedient workforce could be turned on their head and be used to advocate against management for the resources and power necessary to provide for themselves and their patients.