Specialization as a Personality Trait and Tendency: Introducing an Instrument of Measuring the Specialization Degree: Part 2

Abstract

The debate over the benefits and cons of specialization is one of the most interesting ongoing subjects with compelling arguments on both sides. The current study's scope is to take a step ahead toward analyzing specialization as a dynamic variable. Moreover, we aim at introducing and evaluating a means to measure the degree of specialization a person manifests in their daily life. By establishing a method of quantifying it, we purpose in future research on potential interrelation between specialization and various personality aspects (such as introversion and extroversion, proclivity towards cooperation, adjusting in changes, etc.). In view of that, we introduced a measurement tool, the Specialization Questionnaire (S.Q.), which we administered in a population of 272. The results indicated that the participants consider job specialization to be of significant importance for work advancement, but not necessarily as a fundamental criterion for forming social interactions. Additionally, it has been partially showed that the higher the specialization tendency, the higher the seeking for specialized stimuli in free time. There is more research required to that direction, in order to establish a theoretical model with a high predicting degree.