Transfer interest: Measuring interest in training content and interest in training transfer

Autor(en)

Andreas Gegenfurtner, Maximilan Knogler, Susanne Schwab

Abstrakt

Motivational influences are important predictors of training effectiveness and transfer of training to the workplace. The present study introduces the Transfer Interest Questionnaire (TIQ) to measure trainee interest. Grounded in the person-object theory of interest, the construct encompasses two dimensions: interest in training content and interest in training transfer. The results of exploratory factor analyses of questionnaire data from 203 trainees provided strong support for the proposed scales. Based on the perspective of age-related motivational maintenance, socioemotional selectivity theory, the gender-similarities hypothesis, and research on training motivation and motivation to transfer, a series of moderator analyses tested the effects of six trainee and training-design characteristics: trainees’ age and gender, work experience, number of semesters completed, training course’s content area, and voluntary vs. mandatory training participation. Furthermore, based on social cognitive theory, the theory of planned behavior, and the expectancy-value model of achievement motivation, the study tested the TIQ scales’ associations with utility value, self-efficacy, normative beliefs, control beliefs, and transfer intentions. Implications for theorizing the role of interest in transfer of learning, screening training participants’ interest profiles in training evaluations, and future research directions on the role of interest in adult education, corporate training, and human resource development are discussed.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Lehrer*innenbildung, Institut für Bildungswissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

Universität Passau, THD Technische Hochschule Deggendorf, Technische Universität München

Journal

Human Resource Development International

Band

23

Seiten

146-167

Anzahl der Seiten

22

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2019.1644002

Publikationsdatum

2020

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

503034 Inklusive Pädagogik

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 4 – Hochwertige Bildung

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/6c89f14b-cd32-4ff6-8970-b8a8e10302f1