Title: Evaluation of the Correspondence between Holland′s Vocational Personality Typology and the Five-Factor Model of Personality
Abstract: We investigated the correspondence between two of the most prominent and heuristic models of personality structure: Holland′s (1985a) vocational personality typology and the five-factor model. Participants were 146 male and 213 female employed adults with well-defined Self-Directed Search (SDS; Holland, 1985b) profiles; they completed the SDS and the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (Form S) (NEO-FFI [Form S]; Costa & McCrae, 1992). Results of discriminant analyses revealed that two NEO-FFI (Form S) functions differentiated among Holland groups for samples of each gender. For males, the Big-Five dimensions which discriminated Holland types were Openness and Extraversion; for females, Openness, Extraversion, and Agreeableness constituted the functions which discriminated Holland groups. Results also revealed significant associations of Prediger′s (1982) Data/Ideas and Things/People dimensions with the Big-Five dimensions of Openness and a combination of Extraversion and Agreeableness, respectively. We conclude that Holland′s typology, as measured by the SDS, may correspond with a portion of the five-factor model; the dimensions of Openness and Extraversion seem particularly relevant. Finally, our results provide additional empirical support for the validity of Holland′s trait characterizations of the six vocational personality types.
Publication Year: 1995
Publication Date: 1995-02-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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