Abstract
On the measurement of occupational orientation, the methods previous studies have adopted could be classified into “feature-importance procedure” and “the association of feature-preference procedure”, while the difference of the results from each has not been empirically compared. For the subject, a survey in which they employ both procedures and present “career models” of a variety of information as objects in “he association of feature-preference procedure” is focused upon in this paper. A secondary dataset is analyzed, which were obtained by the survey “Hataraku ishiki ni kansuru enquéte” administrated by Adecco Ltd. in 2003. The analyses are for the respondents less than 40 years old who are supposed to be developing their careers. Application of analytical methods to extract dimensional axes which compose orientations to each procedure reveals that some are regarded as similar orientations, others are as different types and that several groups of respondents are interpreted different orientation by procedures. From these results, properties of each procedure are discussed in the perspective of survey method.
