Many educational systems are characterized by segregation between a general and vocational educational track. When adolescents must decide on their postcompulsory education at the end of lower secondary school, the different programs are typically embedded in one of these two main tracks. Prior career choice theories postulate that vocational interests, as structured by the six-dimensional RIASEC model of Holland (1997), play a crucial role in educational and vocational transition processes. However, regarding the question of general versus vocational education, previous studies have mainly focused on the effects of social background. Therefore, this paper examines the impact of vocational interests on the choice of Baccalaureate School (BAC, general track), Vocational Education and Training (VET, vocational track) or the Federal Vocational Baccalaureate (FVB), a hybrid qualification that links elements of both tracks. The sample consists of N = 609 students at the end of lower secondary school in Switzerland. The results of multinomial logistic regression analyses show that all six dimensions of Holland’s interest model are significant predictors for the three postcompulsory tracks, even when controlling for school variables (e.g., grades) and variables of social background. While the realistic and social dimensions are positively interrelated with the choice of VET, the artistic, investigative and enterprising dimensions predict the choice of BAC. The conventional dimension is the only one positively linked to the choice of FVB. The results are discussed with special attention to segregation between more practical and more theoretical types of interests.

许多教育系统的特点是普通教育轨道和职业教育轨道之间的分离。当青少年必须在初中结束时决定他们的义务教育后教育时，不同的计划通常嵌入这两个主要轨道之一。先前的职业选择理论假设，由 Holland (1997) 的六维 RIASEC 模型构建的职业兴趣在教育和职业转型过程中发挥着至关重要的作用。然而，对于普通教育与职业教育的问题，以往的研究主要集中在社会背景的影响上。因此，本文探讨了职业兴趣对选择学士学位学校（BAC，普通轨道）、职业教育和培训（VET，职业轨道）或联邦职业学士学位（FVB）（一种将两者要素联系起来的混合资格）的影响。曲目。样本由瑞士初中毕业的N = 609 名学生组成。多项逻辑回归分析的结果表明，霍兰德兴趣模型的所有六个维度都是三个后义务教育轨迹的显着预测因子，即使在控制学校变量（例如成绩）和社会背景变量时也是如此。虽然现实和社会维度与 VET 的选择呈正相关，但艺术、研究和进取维度预测 BAC 的选择。常规尺寸是唯一与选择 FVB 正相关的尺寸。对结果的讨论特别关注更实际的兴趣类型和更理论的兴趣类型之间的分离。