Abstract
Trait complexes are combinations of interests, personality traits and intellectual abilities that relate to cognitive investment in knowledge domains, and predict educational and career choices (Ackerman, 2000). Only one study to date has related trait complexes to realized occupation, using Project TALENT (PT), a nationally-representative sample of American high school students from 1960 (Austin & Hanisch, 1990). We improved on the methods of this study by creating a factor-analytically derived model of the interests in PT, separating g from specific non-g abilities, and using latent class analysis to classify individuals according to trait complexes of occupational interests and cognitive abilities. Two non-g factors were found that represented aspects of the Verbal-Image Rotation dimension (Johnson & Bouchard, 2007). Latent class membership was used to predict realized occupational category 11 years after high school graduation in the grade 11 and 12 samples.
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