Meta-analyses of interest-personality convergence using the Strong Interest Inventory and the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire

Contributions of Personality and Interests to Explaining the Educational Aspirations of College Students

“…Currently, three meta-analyses have synthesized the relations between personality and interest, namely, the personality-interest meta-analyses of the Big Five and the Big Six by Larson et al (2002) and Barrick et al (2003) and the meta-analyses of the Big Three and the Big Six (Staggs, 2003). These three articles empirically synthesize a large part of the work on vocational interests and personality relevant to this study.…”

“…Larson et al and Barrick et al recommended that other personality models be considered as we attempt to understand the overlap between these constructs. Staggs (2003) advanced this line of inquiry by conducting meta-analyses with the Big Six and a competing model of personality to the Big Five, namely the Big Three, measured with the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ; Tellegen, 1982;Tellegen & Waller, in press). Staggs confirmed the prior meta-analyses but also uncovered undetected relations between personality and interest.…”