Exploring careers with a typology: What we have learned and some new directions.

Holland, John L.

doi:10.1037/0003-066x.51.4.397

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“…environments is contained in Holland's theory of vocational personalities and work environments (Holland, 1958(Holland, , 1996(Holland, , 1997. Six occupational environments are described in this model that pose very different requirements to individual employees (Holland, 1997).…”

Section: Occupational Environments and Trait Changementioning

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Vocations as a source of identity: Reciprocal relations between Big Five personality traits and RIASEC characteristics over 15 years.

Wille

Fruyt

2014

Journal of Applied Psychology

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Although work is a core part of life, the direction of influence from personality to work has typically been conceived as only unidirectional. The present study aims to contribute to the literature by considering reciprocal relations between personality and occupational characteristics, drawing on current perspectives from personality psychology (i.e., the social investment principle) and using a well-established framework to conceptualize career development (i.e., Holland's RIASEC theory). For this purpose, a longitudinal cohort of college alumni (N ϭ 266) was tracked across a substantial and significant period in their professional career. Big Five personality traits and RIASEC occupational characteristics were assessed at the career start and 15 years later when their careers had unfolded. A combination of observed and latent variable analyses were used to disentangle the longitudinal and reciprocal relations between traits and occupational characteristics. Our results indicate that personality shapes and is shaped by our vocational experiences, suggesting that work can be a source of identity. The implications for theory and research on personality in the industrial and organizational literature are discussed alongside a number of practical implications for organizational and counseling settings.

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Section: Occupational Environments and Trait Changementioning

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Vocations as a source of identity: Reciprocal relations between Big Five personality traits and RIASEC characteristics over 15 years.

Wille

Fruyt

2014

Journal of Applied Psychology

111

100

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“…Assessment of these potential factor solutions indicated that the six-factor configuration was the best fit and most coherent with the theoretical model grounding the ATPH, corresponding to the career types proposed by Holland (1996Holland ( , 1997. Table 1 presents a synthesis of results found in this exploratory analysis, as well as coefficients of internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) for each of the factors extracted.…”

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“…This hypothesis predicts that the prototypical distances in the multidimensional area between the adjacent types (R-I; I-A; A-S; S-E; E-C and C-R) is greater than the distance between the alternate types (e.g., R-A; I-S; A-E; S-C; E-R and C-I); which in turn is greater than the distance between the opposite types (e.g., R-S; I-E and C-A (Holland, 1996(Holland, , 1997Rounds & Tracey, 1996;Tracey, Watanabe, & Schneider, 1997). …”

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“…More enthusiastic, impulsive, and outgoing individuals who prefer activities in which they dominate, persuade and lead others belong to the Enterprising (E) type. The Conventional (C) type, in turn, gathers characteristics such as conformism and control, prefers more structured activities involving obedience to orders and rules (Holland, 1996(Holland, , 1997.…”

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“…The Investigative (I) type is represented by individuals predominantly more introverted and focused on intellectual exploration, who enjoy thinking more than acting and are more skilled to deal with abstract ideas and words. The predominant characteristics of the Artistic (A) type are introversion, a tendency to use feelings, emotions, intuition, imagination, and creativity to deal with daily situations (Holland, 1996(Holland, , 1997.…”

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Validity and Reliability Evidence for Assessing Holland's Career Types

Meireles

Primi

2015

Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto)

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Professional interests are a synthesis of personal characteristics and function as a guiding factor for one's career choice. This study shows evidence of validity and reliability for the interpretation of the scores of a measure of career types. The responses of 1,265 high school students to 154 items from the Escala de Avaliação dos Tipos Profissionais de Holland (ATPH) ENT#091;Assessment Scale of Holland's Career TypesENT#093; were used. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses showed that the six-factor structure is appropriate and consistent to represent the RIASEC types. Evidence of convergent-discriminant validity of parcels of items was demonstrated to represent the latent factors of the ATPH Scale. Results of multidimensional analysis and phi correlation phi partially confirmed the hypothesis of circularity and congruence among the career types, which are organized in the acronym RASIEC. The implications of these results and study limitations are discussed.

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Individual Differences

Lubinski

Webb

2006

Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

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The present study investigated the relationship between forgivingness and action orientation, and examined the mediating role of action orientation for the neuroticism-forgivingness association. Participants (N = 210) completed the Tendency to Forgive Scale (TTF;Brown, 2003), two subscales from the Action Control Scale (ACS-90; Kuhl, 1994b) and the Neuroticism scale from the short form of the Big Five Inventory (BFI-K; Rammstedt & John, 2005). Results indicate that failure-related action orientation (AOF) was strongly positively related to forgivingness. Moreover, the negative relation between neuroticism and forgivingness was fully mediated by action orientation (AOF). This finding suggests that the ability to down-regulate negative affect is an important mechanism in explaining the association between neuroticism and forgivingness.

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Exploring careers with a typology: What we have learned and some new directions.

Cited by 458 publications

References 43 publications

Vocations as a source of identity: Reciprocal relations between Big Five personality traits and RIASEC characteristics over 15 years.

Vocations as a source of identity: Reciprocal relations between Big Five personality traits and RIASEC characteristics over 15 years.

Validity and Reliability Evidence for Assessing Holland's Career Types

Individual Differences

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