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Personality and vocational interests

This study investigates the relations between two prominent structural models of personality: five-factor model and Holland's model of vocational interests. Five personality dimensions were assessed with NEO-FFI (McCrae and Costa, 1992), while vocational interests were assessed with Self Directed Search (Holland, 1994). Participants were 178 males and 237 females, high school students whose average age was 18 years. Results revealed a number of significant relations between two models for both males and females. Six Holland's vocational types were significantly associated with personality dimensions, and all five dimensions significantly contributed to the explained variance of vocational interests. Opennes to experience was strongly related to investigative and artistic interests for both males and females. Furhermore, low openness to experience was related to conventional interests in both sexes, while extraversion was the most important predictor of the variance of social and enterprising interests. In sum, our results cross-culturally replicated the most important findings on the relations between two structural personality models.

personality; five-factor model; Holland's vocational interests

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