PSY230H5 Lecture 21: Personality and Work
Document Summary
Personality and work (not on final exam- bonus lecture) Model of vocational interests: realist: working with gadgets, investigative: scientific, mathematics, artistic: creative expression in art, social: helping professions, team work, enterprising: leadership, economics, conventional: structured work environments. Stability of vocational interests: participants: intellectually gifted students aged 13 (time 1) and 25 (time 2, materials: assessment of holland"s riasec. Hierarchy of vocational interests: items (specific jobs, factors (groups of similar jobs, superfactors (interest types, heritability increases from items (32%) to superfactors (53%, genes influence broad interests. Vocational interests and facets: participants: 217 students at large midwestern university, materials. Neo-pi-r (measure of big 5 and 30 facets) Two measures of vocational interests: main findings. Warmth better predictor than extraversion for social interests. Assertiveness better predictor than extraversion for enterprising. Facets of openness have opposing relations to investigative interests. Aesthetics better predictor than openness for artistic interests. Global agreeableness dimension was a better predictor than agreeableness facets.
