Holland's Personality Research Articles

The environmental friendliness of Holland's personality types

This study explores the environmental friendliness of Holland's RIASEC personality types (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional). It investigates how each type correlates with pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors. Findings suggest that Investigative and Artistic types exhibit strong environmental concern due to their analytical and creative natures, respectively. Social types engage in environmentally friendly activities through community involvement, while Enterprising and Conventional types participate when environmental actions align with personal or economic goals. The study highlights the need for tailored environmental education based on personality profiles to enhance pro-environmental behaviors.

Analysis of Career Potential Based on Holland's Theory to Prepare Graduates among Students with Intellectual Disabilities

Students with intellectual disabilities often encounter significant challenges as they prepare for post-graduation careers. Recognizing the importance of aligning career paths with individual interests and abilities, SLB Negeri 1 Yogyakarta serves as a pivotal institution in vocational education for these students. This research employs case studies to delve into the ways vocational education programs can enhance career readiness among intellectually disabled students, using interest and talent assessments based on Holland’s theory. The study involves 28 students at the SMALB level, a guidance counselor, 10 vocational instructors, and 8 parents, employing methods such as semi-structured interviews, participatory observations, and documentation analysis. Findings indicate a significant correlation between Holland's personality types and the career interests of students, with realistic, conventional, and artistic types prevailing. Moreover, career guidance grounded in Holland's theory at SLB Negeri 1 Yogyakarta effectively nurtures vocational skills that resonate with the students’ talents and capabilities, supporting their potential career trajectories.

RIASEC Holland's reliability and validity on personality of informatics engineering education students in higher education

Holland code is an approach used in psychometrics to see human personality through traits that are arranged in six personality domains which are formed using factor analysis. This study aims to test the reliability and construct validity of the RIASEC Holland instrument, which will later be applied to 178 students of Engineering Education in Indonesia. The method used is confirmatory factor analysis. The results of this study indicate that the prediction of the reliability of the six Indonesian versions of Holland's personality using 178 students shows that Cronbach's alpha is quite large, between 0.601 and 0.699. and the intercorrelation between Holland's Personality proved to have a positive correlation. Construct validity test obtained a fit model where the p value = 0.26972 and RMSEA = 0.02.which shows this model is fit, where the model is said to be fit if the p value > 0.05 and RMSEA < 0.05. This shows that the conformity of the empirical data with the RIASEC typology model which is used as a theoretical concept is at a valid level.

Comparing Special Education Teachers’ Personality Profile With Their Choice to Teach

Researchers have yet to examine the association of Holland personality profiles as it relates to special education teachers. In response to this need, we report the personality and vocational profiles (Holland Codes) of 134 special education teachers across a special education training program. The purpose of this paper is to summarize findings from the Self-Directed Search measure commonly used to assess the personality of participants in an occupation and suggest implications for participants’ choice in becoming a special education teacher. Our focus was on personality match with vocational choice to include participants’ demographic (e.g., gender, race/ethnicity, and geographical location) profile. Findings from the study reveal that while special educators’ overall personality profile is congruent with the Holland Codes associated with special education teachers, other features may explain participants’ choice to pursue a career as a special education teacher. Implications for teacher preparation programs and K-12 schools training are recommended based on the research findings.

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The main objective of this research is to investigate adolescents’ perceptions concerning professional interests and preferences. Nowadays, a major problem of the teenager is the choice of career path to follow. Vocational identity is an important aspect of individual identity that adolescents explore and are asked, in high school mainly, to choose an orientation group (general high school) or sector (vocational high school) and consequently the subject of study and field of work. Their decision to choose studies and profession is not easy. The teacher specializing in Counselingand Orientation has the opportunity to help adolescents to understand their personalities and interests, combining Counseling and the use of appropriate psychometric tools. The qualitative research, in which 19 students of the Third Grade of Lyceum participated, showed that they discovered, confirmed and reflected on issues of their professional identity, using the Holland Personality and Vocational Guidance test.

Relationship Between Personality Types and Career Choice Among Undergraduate Students of Maseno University, Kenya

Training institutions in most parts of the world place high premium on those who excel in examinations based on scholastic intelligence. In Kenya, students are admitted into available undergraduate degree programmes in public universities based on their performance in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE). Yet, the Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) degree programmes offered in the School of Education at Maseno University have a strong bearing on personality types and not all the students admitted can fit in them. Academic qualification remains a challenge to a majority of students (79.4%) in choosing a career; hence a significant number (94%) of students end up settling for what is available rather than their choice. Apparently, limited attention has been given to exploring the relationship between students’ unique personality-occupational interests hence the current low (7%) college career satisfaction level. The purpose of the study therefore, was to establish the types of personality and their relationship with career choice among first-year B.Ed students of Maseno University, Kenya. The objectives of the study was to establish Holland personality types across gender; to determine the level of relationship between personality types and career choice in the B.Ed programmmes of Maseno University The study was guided by the Holland Code Theory (1997). Correlation and descriptive survey designs were adopted for the study. The target population consisted of the 490 first-year B.Ed students admitted in the Academic year 2011/2012 in the School of Education. The study sample consisted of 220 first-years B.Ed students drawn using proportionate stratified sampling. Data was collected by use of Questionnaire and document analysis guides. The questionnaire was piloted using 10% (n = 49) of the study population Pearson Product Moment correlation was used to determine reliability at alpha level 0.05. The questionnaire had an acceptable reliability index of 0.84. Quantitative data was coded and analyzed using descriptive statistics such as mode, frequency counts and percentages. Gender difference in personality types was examined using percentages and mean gender differences across personality types. Further, the degree of relationship between personality types and career choice was established using cross tabulation with chi-square test and Likelihood Ratio test. Qualitative data was transcribed into text form of emerging themes and reported. Gender was found to be strongly correlated to personality types ( X = 34.962, df= 5, p= .000) with more males classified as realistic and investigative and more females as social type. The results of the of the chi square test likelihood ratio test show very high (p<.000) level of relationship between personality types and career choice. The study concludes that students at Maseno University can be classified into the six Holland personality types which correlate significantly with gender. The study further concludes that there is also a significant relationship (p<.000) between personality types and career choice. The study recommended that the need to investigate factors at the university environment which influences the development of personality types among female and male students. Significantly, the study provides a useful guide to students, education policymakers and university staff for career choice, training and retention efforts and placement. Keywords: Personality, Gender, Career choice, degree program DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-14-14 Publication date: May 31 st 2020

The relationship between personality characteristics and adherence to professional values among nursing students

Background: Professional values are the core of developing professional identity and among the determining factors behind nurses' professional practice. Adherence to professional values seems to be affected by personality characteristics. Objectives: This study aimed to assess the relationship between personality characteristics and adherence to professional values among nursing students. Methods: This descriptive correlational study was conducted on 200 nursing students recruited from Urmia Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Urmia, Iran. Study data were collected using the Holland's Personality Questionnaire and the Nurses Professional Values Scale-Revised and were analyzed using the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test and the Pearson's correlation analysis. Results: Participants' closest adherence to professional values was related to the dimensions of trust (particularly the item “Maintain competency in area of practice”) and caring (particularly the item “Maintain confidentiality of patient”). Their poorest adherence was to the dimensions of professionalism (particularly the item “Participate in peer review”) and activism (particularly the item “Participate in nursing research and/or implement research findings appropriate to practice”). The social personality type had significant relationships with all dimensions of adherence to professional values, while the investigative personality type had significant relationships only with the caring (P = 0.021) and the justice (P = 0.013) dimensions. Moreover, the artistic personality type had significant relationships with the trust (P

Who Wants to be a Statistician? An Analysis of ACT-Tested Public School Students

ABSTRACTThis study examines predictors of statistics as occupation choice while in high school. The overall rate of choosing statistics was 1 per 1,681 students. Females, Asian students, students from the southern United States, and students from rural schools were less likely to choose statistics, and there was an increase in statistics choice rates between 2014 and 2017. Differences across other socio-demographic groups were small after accounting for other predictors. The strongest predictors of statistics choice were ACT Mathematics score and a measure of vocational interests corresponding to Holland's Conventional personality type. The results of the study can be used to identify high school students with interest and achievement profiles that are common among prospective statisticians, and to gain a better understanding of factors that affect statistics occupation choice. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.

Developing and Validating the Career Personality Styles Inventory

ABSTRACTThe article describes the development and validation of the Career Personality Styles Inventory (CPSI). The CPSI comprehensively assesses Holland's career personality styles with only 22 items. Based on a series of 3 studies, we found satisfactory internal consistency, factor structure, and criterion validities of the newly constructed CPSI.

직업유형에 따른 얼굴이미지와 얼굴 형태의 특징에 따른 성격간의 상관관계에 대한 연구

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between face images by vocational types and personalities by characteristics of face shapes. First, Holland 's professional personality type test was conducted to collect facial images by occupation type and to extract representative image...

Parental Influence on Career Choice Traditionalism among College Students in Selected Cities in Ethiopia

The study explored the influence of parents on choosing career among college students in selected private colleges situated around Bahirdar City, Ethiopia. Choosing a suitable career is a vital part in every student’s life. Further, it ignites a person’s future life for his/her own job preference and life style. In this context, influence of social members is inevitable; generally the influence of family members and most particularly parents play a major role as a influencer and determiner on choosing a career option. Students in Ethiopia are not exceptional to this phenomenon of selecting right and suitable career. A cross-sectional survey design was adopted and multi stage sampling technique was employed to identify the participants. Totally, 175 participants (Male=99) and (Female =76) responded to Holland Personality Inventory (Holland, 1997) and Career Choice Traditionalism Scale (Hensely, 2003). The collected data were statistically processed using SPSS version 16. Descriptive and inferential statistics was employed to analyse the data. The results revealed that there is a significant influence of parents on career choice among students. Specifically, father’s influence is found to be more significant on career choice decision making among students than their mothers.

Choosing a Career Based Personality Matching: A Case Study of King Abdulaziz University

Traditionally, selecting a career involves matching the specific aptitudes and characteristics of an individual with a career which requires or involves such factors. This particular approach has as its foundation the fact that certain careers have need of individuals with certain skills and attitudes, that is to say the individual is a ‘fit’ for that particular career based on their knowledge, skill and disposition. Many students have problems determining their college majors and a suitable career. This paper shows how to find a career that fits one’s personality, and aims to help students analyse their personalities based on the Holland personality test. This paper will identify the most suitable career for students by using a validated Arabic version of the Holland survey, which is one of the most popular models used for career personality tests. This study implements a new set of tasks, testing 117 students from King Abdulaziz University with the Arabic version of the Holland test. The test was applied to female students from three majors, computer science, information systems, and preparatory year distance learning students. The implications of the test results will help students to understand their personality types and determine a suitable career, as the results of the test suggest suitable careers for students which match their personalities. Ultimately, the results show a difference between computer science, information systems and preparatory year distance learning students with regard to personality types and suitable careers.

Does Personality Matter? Applying Holland's Typology to Analyze Students' Self-Selection into Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Majors

This study utilized John Holland's personality typology and the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) to examine the factors that may affect students' self-selection into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors. Results indicated that gender, race/ethnicity, high school achievement, and personality type were statistically significant factors in increasing or decreasing a student's odds of enrolling in a STEM major. Specifically, students with a strong investigative personality were more likely to enroll in STEM majors, while those with a strong artistic personality or enterprising personality were less likely to do so. Males with a strong social personality also tended not to choose STEM majors, though social personality had a positive effect on whether females chose STEM majors. Implications of the findings for policymakers, educators, and administrators were explored.

Association of occupational burnout and type of personality in Iranian general practitioners.

Physicians experience high level of occupational burnout that exposes them to physical and mental exhaustion as well as job dissatisfaction. The association between different types of personality traits and occupational burnout among a group of Iranian general practitioners is assessed. One hundred general practitioners working in emergency wards of eight hospitals in Iran were studied. Occupational burnout was measured using the Maslach Burnout Inventory and type of personality was assessed using the Holland personality test. An average of 15.4% of personnel displayed high frequency in subscale of emotional exhaustion, 14.5% displayed high frequency in subscale of depersonalization, and 10.2% displayed high frequency in subscale of lack of personal accomplishment. Realistic personality was revealed in 2%, social types in 41%, investigative type in 35%, enterprising types in 6.0%, artistic type in 13% and conventional type of personality in 3.0% of them. The subjects with social personality experienced the lowest burnout. There were negative correlation between physician experiences and different subdivisions of burnout. A notable number of Iranian general practitioners suffered occupational burnout, especially emotional exhaustion. The majority of physicians had social or investigative personalities.

The U.S. Workforce from 1960 to 2010: A RIASEC View

In this article, the authors analyze ways of categorizing civilian occupations and employment data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau over 6 decades (1960-2010) with respect to six kinds of work (Holland's RIASEC classification), occupational titles used, employment and income. O*NET provided data for the 2010 census regarding employment and income. The authors discuss the distribution of employment changes over time and the examination of findings in relation to science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. The article concludes with practical implications for counseling and guidance practice.Keywords: Holland, RIASEC, census, employment, occupations, incomeHolland's (1997) RIASEC theory is generally recognized as one of the most important and influential in the field of counseling and career development. Foutch, McHugh, Bertoch, and Reardon (2014) sought to verify such an observation by using bibliographic research tools and identified all publications based on this theory from 1953-2011. They found over 1,970 reference citations to Holland's theory and applications, and categorized them in terms of practice, specific populations (e.g., K-12), instruments, diverse populations and theory. These citations appeared in 275 publications (e.g., books, journals, periodicals, reports) produced in varied professional fields and disciplines worldwide.Many counselors know relatively more about Holland's RIASEC personality typology than corresponding environmental models (Reardon & Lenz, 1998). From the outset, Holland believed that the environmental aspects of the typology needed further examination (Weinrach, 1980). Occupations, fields of study or academic disciplines, organizations, leisure activities, and jobs (positions) are aspects of the environment included in the theory. In this article, we address the interaction between RIASEC theory and the environment by examining 2010 census data and updating prior studies of occupational employment in 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000 in relation to RIASEC codes and Holland's theory (Reardon, Bullock, & Meyer, 2007).Various people contemplating career decisions can benefit from understanding the scope and nature of the labor force and employment from this psychological, counseling-based point of view. Moreover, given characteristics of the contemporary U.S. economy, it is important to know how the distribution of jobs is changing over time. For example, the distribution of jobs across the RIASEC categories has changed from 1960-2010 in some ways, but not in others. An analysis of occupational employment, then, can be beneficial to counselors and career services providers assisting those who are unemployed, displaced or exploring the labor force. This work is important for both theoretical and practical reasons. For example, the number of annual job openings is strongly related to the number of people currently working in an occupation, so knowing the number employed is of practical importance in job hunting because of the need to replace workers.Authors of recent literature have identified concerns about the use of outmoded concepts such as occupation in career/life counseling at a time of unprecedented socioeconomic change in the global economy. For example, Savickas et al. (2009) noted that new social arrangements for work and the digital revolution have led to unstable occupations and frequent job transitions for individuals: Today, occupational prospects seem far less definable and predictable, with job transitions more frequent and difficult (Savickas et al., 2009, p. 240). Sampson and Reardon (2011) summarized these ideas: have changed in fundamental ways as technology and globalization have reshaped the workplace. Occupations have become fluid and organizations are evolving rapidly, adapting their workforce to respond to a rapidly evolving marketplace (p. 41). We agree that some occupations are changing but conclude that the concept of an occupation remains common and useful in the social sciences as a way of categorizing work activities and employment. …

Behind the Mask: The Differences and Stability of Children's Career Expectations

The social scientists generally agree that career expectations influence an individual's career fulfillment. In virtue of cultivating quality early childhood education to meet children's learning needs, the study aims to explore the differences and stability of children's career expectations. The participants were kindergarten children and the sixth-grade elementary school children in Southern Taiwan. Their ages are from 5 to 12. The total valid samples were 278 questionnaires. The data was collected by using self-administered questionnaires which was adopted from Holland's (1997) and Lee's (2010) career personality category types. The data was analyzed by using percentage and average analysis, regression analysis, as well as the McNemar test of symmetry and Cramer's V to investigate the relation between the parents’ occupation and the children's career expectations. The main findings of the study are as follows: (1) Among the categories of careers, police officer, painter, doctor, teacher, and entrepreneurs were the most popular careers from the children's aspirations. (2) There is a significant gender difference in the children's career expectations. (3) Children show stable development in career expectations. Nonetheless, there is a gradual declining trend in absolute scores for career expectations. (4) The parents’ careers are often related to their children's career expectations. According to these findings, some pedagogical implications are proposed, and recommendations for future studies are offered.

초등학생의 대뇌반구의 지배적 특성에 따른 Holland유형과 소질의 관계분석

본 연구는 초등학생의 대뇌반구의 지배적 특성에 따라 Holland 성격유형 및 소질이 다르게 나타내는지 검증하고, 상관관계를 살펴보는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 초등학교 4~6학년까지 679명을 대상으로 조사했다. SPSS 18.0 통계프로그램을 이용하여 빈도분석과 독립표본 t검증, 상관분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과 첫째, 예술형과 진취형이 우반구적 특성을 우세하게 보이고 있는 반면 현실형, 탐구형과 사회형, 관습형은 특징적 차이가 나타나지 않았다. 둘째, 좌반구에서 RIC(현실형 탐구형 관습형)군집이 SAE(사회형 예술형 진취형) 군집과 유의미한 차이가 있었으나 우반구는 차이가 없었다. 셋째, 창의성소질, 자연소질, 대인관계소질, 신체소질 등 소질에서는 우반구가 우세했으나 음악소질, 수리소질에서는 차이가 나타나지 않았다. 넷째, Holland 성격유형, 대뇌반구의 지배적 특성, 소질 간에는 좌반구와 예술형, 우반구와 사회형을 제외하고 상관관계가 나타났다. This study is to examine that there are differences in Holland personality types and talent of elementary school students depending on cerebral hemisphere and their relationship. The study is targeted 679 elementary school students. To examined the hypothesis, frequency analysis, t-test, correlation analysis, using SPSS 18.0 were conducted. First, The elementary school students, artistic and enterprising types appeared more evident in the right-brain than left-brain. Second, there are positively conspicuous differences between RIC group and SAE group in left-brain. Third, in comparison with cerebral hemisphere and talent of elementary school students, creative, nature, communicative and body appeared more evident in the right-brain. Fourth, there are positive relationships in Holland personality types, cerebral hemisphere, and talent. However, there is no relationship between left-brain and artistic type, right-brain and social type.

The relationship between Holland's personality types and sensation seeking in Firemen and Clerks of municipality

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between different types of Holland's Personality Types and sensation seeking in the firemen and the clerks of municipality in Zanjan city (in Iran). Self -directed Search questionnaire of Holland (SDS) with 6 types of personality (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional) and Zuckerman's SSS-V which had 4 subscales(thrill and adventure seeking, experience seeking, disinhibition, and boredom susceptibility were completed by the participants. The sample consisted of 40 clerks of municipality and 53 of firemen. The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and stepwise regression methods. The results indicated that in both groups of firemen and clerks Investigative personality type most strongly predicted sensation seeking. Also the results showed that sensation seeking was high in firemen. And the firemen were more likely to be investigative in comparison with clerks of municipality. The results can be used for organizations in order to employ the bests for each job.

Exploring the effects of congruence and Holland’s personality codes on job satisfaction: An application of hierarchical linear modeling techniques

This study applied hierarchical linear modeling to investigate the effect of congruence on intrinsic and extrinsic aspects of job satisfaction. Particular focus was given to differences in job satisfaction by gender and by Holland’s first-letter codes. The study sample included nationally represented 1462 female and 1280 male college graduates who held full-time jobs in 2000. Congruence was measured by using actual occupational and academic major codes. After controlling for the differences across three-letter Holland personality codes, results indicate that job satisfaction was largely a function of individual attributes rather than disparities in personality types. Holland’s congruence was most effective in explaining intrinsic dimensions of job satisfaction for females, and less effective for extrinsic job satisfaction for both genders. Social females and males were less satisfied with extrinsic satisfaction, while Conventional and Social females were more satisfied with intrinsic features in their vocational environments.

Holland’s hexagonal personality model for a sample of Greek university students

The aim of this study was to describe the hexagonal person-environment fit for the Holland personality types for a Greek sample of 156 university students. The statistical analysis followed both exploratory—such as multidimensional scaling—and confirmatory methods—such as covariance structure models. These methods were employed in an exploratory sense, in a descriptive attempt to portray Holland’s hexagon structure for this Greek sample. The findings of this study are comparable to the overall theory and other international samples, and also serve as a first psychometric testing of the Self-Directed Search in a Greek population.