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Method Research participants included 113 undergraduate freshmen and their parents.Student participants were enrolled in an introductory management course of a large university in Hong Kong.Fifty eight(51.3%) of them were female and 55(48.7%) were male. Procedure During the first lesson of the introductory management course,the instruktor invited all 150 undergraduate freshman enrolled in the course to participate in this study.Three questionniares were distributed to the 113 participant who accepted the invitation to join.An incentive of HK$150(about US$20) was given to each student and the form must be turned in within a month.The questionnaire included measures on career interests,personality,emotiooal intelligence and proxy of general mental abilities,in addition to their gender,while the parent questionnaire contained the measure of career interests. Results The writer found out that as expected,male student participant have significantly higher scores on realistic interests and female have higher scores in artistic.