Vocational Personality Types Research Articles

Vocational Personality Types and Perceived Job Performance in Bankers and Teachers in Pakistan: Role of Occupational Self-Efficacy as Mediator

Vocational Personality Types and Perceived Job Performance in Bankers and Teachers in Pakistan: Role of Occupational Self-Efficacy as Mediator

EXAMINATION OF VOCATIONAL PERSONALITY TYPES OF SECONDARY STUDENTS (SIRNAK EXAMPLE)

The decisions of people regarding the choice of profession are at an important point in the decisions they will make about their lives. Some factors are the basis for making such an important decision in a healthy way. Being aware of one's own characteristics is one of the basic elements in the process of choosing the profession that is suitable for oneself. In this framework, it is aimed to examine the "Professional Personality Types" of secondary school students in terms of different variables. A survey model, which is a quantitative research model, was preferred in order to examine secondary school students according to the variables of gender, school type and grade level where they continue their education. The sample of the research consists of 132 secondary school students studying in Şırnak province. According to the research, artist, social and traditional types are in the first three places for female students, while social, artistic and traditional types are in the first three places for male students, and entrepreneurial personality type is in the last place of personality types for both genders; The first three occupational personality types for the 9th and 11th grade students are the same, and the first three professional personality types for the 10th and 12th grade students are the same; It has been observed that the rankings of personality types are the same according to the type of school they are enrolled in. It is thought that the data on the vocational personality types of secondary school students obtained within the scope of the research will help the activities carried out in the choice of profession.

Exploring paramedicine student preferences using Holland's vocational theory: A cross-sectional study.

Holland's RIASEC typology is a classification of vocational personality types and work environments. Having a predisposition for their vocation, in terms of a personality that is congruent to their work environment, may be protective for paramedics with regards to both their mental and physical health. The purpose of this study was to identify paramedicine students' vocational preference according to Holland's RIASEC model. Bachelor of Paramedicine degree students in the three different year levels completed the 48-item Brief RIASEC Marker Scales to determine their order of the six RIASEC personality types. In this study, the paramedicine students' three most dominant personality types were Social-Investigative-Artistic, differing from the defined Holland Occupational Code for paramedics of Realistic-Social-Investigative. Male students scored significantly higher on the Reality personality type, whereas female students scored significantly higher on the Social personality type. Overall, this study found many students to possess two of the three dominant personality traits that form the desired Holland code for paramedics. This suggests that many students may be better able to cope with the demands of the paramedicine profession upon employment.

THE RELATIONSHIP OF HOLLAND THEORY IN CAREER DECISION MAKING: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF LITERATURE

Occupational and educational decision is one of the issues faces by the young generation. The vocational interest and occupational congruency is one of the factor that influence individual in the career decision. Holland’s Theory is one of the career theory that helps individual in understanding their own career personality and later helps them in career decision making. This study is aimed at determining the relationship between Holland’s Theory and career decision making, and to identify the factors that affect career decision making. Scopus and Science Direct databases were searched to identify articles published between 2010 and 2018 which hit the keywords of ‘Holland theory’, ‘career’ and ‘education decision’. A total of 20 journal articles were selected after inclusion and exclusion criteria runs. 70% of the research found that vocational personality types need to have high congruency with the working and study environment. It will help increase the performance. The factors that contributed to career decisions are career education, financial stress, parental support, gender, culture and job lose or live event. Holland theory makes a big contribution to the career and education decision making and helping in improving career satisfaction

Vocational Personality Types in College Engineering Students in Relation to Academic Achievement

This study explored whether and to what extent vocational personality types based on Holland (1994) correlate with and explain unique variance of academic success among 117 undergraduate civil engineering students by using the Self‐Directed Search–Form R, 4th Edition. Findings indicated that the majority of participants’ 1st‐letter code was Realistic (39.3%), 2nd‐letter code was Investigative (24.8%), and 3rd‐letter code was Social (21.4%), compared with Holland's 3‐letter codes for civil engineering (Investigative, Realistic, Enterprising). The study also calculated the degree of congruence between personality type and occupational environment. For career counselors, the findings underscore the importance of using congruence scores to predict engineering students’ academic performance.

The Relationship between Vocational Personality Types and Vocational Values

In this study, the relationship between high school students’ vocational personality types and vocational values was examined. The study data were collected from 488 high school students going to schools in Niğde city center. In the study, Vocational Personality Types Inventory and Vocational Value Inventory were administered. Canonical correlation analysis technique was used to analyze the data. The study results revealed that the canonical model was significant, and when the data on canonical functions were evaluated separately, three canonical functions were found significant. The common variance shared between the data sets of the canonical variables showing that there was a significant relationship between occupational personality types and occupational values were 44% for the first canonical function, 30% for the second canonical function and 11% for the third canonical function, respectively. The findings were discussed in the light of the related literature.

An investigation of gender differences in Holland’s circumplex model of vocational personality types in South Africa

We investigated (a) the fit and structural equivalence of Holland’s model of six vocational personality types in a sample of South African men (n = 139) and women (n = 268) using the South African Career Interest Inventory, and (b) mean score differences for men and women on these types. The results supported the fit and structural similarity of Holland’s model of vocational personality types for men and women but showed that the model fit the data better for women. The largest differences in the mean scores occurred on the Realistic scale. Implications of the results are presented.

Development and evaluation of a short RIASEC interest inventory

This study set out to develop a short interest inventory based on Holland’s model of vocational personality types using items from the South African Career Interest Inventory (SACII). In study 1, we used 1000 responses to the SACII from an existing database to select 30 items for this interest inventory. Satisfactory reliability and structural validity were found for responses to these items. In study 2, we investigated the psychometric properties of these items on a sample of 183 participants. Satisfactory reliability and structural validity were again found. Implications and recommendations for research are discussed.

Career Counseling Interventions for Video Game Players

Video games are becoming ubiquitous in Western societies. However, this virtual leisure has received little attention from researchers in career counseling, leaving career counselors relatively unprepared to work with video game players. In this article, we propose three types of interventions to capitalize on the benefits of playing video games to foster the career counseling process. The first intervention aims to identify and transfer the skills that video game players develop through their leisure activity. The second intervention highlights how video game players’ narrative may reveal vocational personality types. The third intervention proposes to turn career counseling tasks into a game to increase motivation to achieve it. The strengths and limitations of these interventions are underlined, as well as the potential of career counseling sessions to help remedy problematic video game play.

An investigation of the psychometric properties of the Maree Career Matrix

The purpose of this study was to investigate the reliability and structural validity of the Maree Career Matrix when used to measure the vocational interests of adults. Reliability of the 19 Maree Career Matrix interest categories were investigated using Cronbach’s alpha and McDonald’s omega total and the structural validity of these 19 interest categories was examined using principal components analysis. Results indicated mostly satisfactory reliability of the 19 interest categories when used for discussion of interest profiles and that the 19 interest categories formed approximate circular ordering consistent with Holland’s circumplex model of vocational personality types. These results provide initial support for the reliability and structural validity of the Maree Career Matrix when used to measure the vocational interests of adults. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

Structural Validity of Holland’s Circumplex Model of Vocational Personality Types in Africa

This study investigated the construct (structural) validity of Holland’s circumplex model of vocational personality types in Africa. Data were obtained on the general occupational themes of the Strong Interest Inventory for 28 countries. These countries were classified into three different geographic regions (Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, and Western Africa). The randomization test and circumplex covariance structure modeling were used to investigate the fit of Holland’s circumplex model across these regions. Results provide preliminary evidence for the generalizability of Holland’s model in the African context. Inspection of the angular locations of the six vocational personality types in two-dimensional space indicated slight disordering of the types in the Eastern Africa region and the correct ordering of the types in the Southern and Western African regions. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

Broadcasting personalities: The relationship between occupation and music preferences in the BBC Radio programmeDesert Island Discs

This research examines the music choices of interviewees on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs over a 72-year period. In the programme, individuals with a public profile related to high achievement in their chosen occupation identify several pieces of their favourite music. Publicly stated music preferences offer insights into how individuals construct and wish to communicate crucial aspects their identities. We propose that, in this context, occupation is related to music preferences. We investigate this relationship within the framework of Holland’s RIASEC model of vocational personality types, previously ignored by research into music preferences. We consider music preferences in terms of the five-dimension MUSIC model of music preferences, and preference for acoustical attributes of chosen music. Results demonstrate several significant associations between RIASEC occupation types and MUSIC preference dimensions, and also a main effect for RIASEC type on acoustical music attributes such as tempo, energy and loudness.

An examination of Alternative Multidimensional Scaling Techniques.

The purpose of this study is to compare alternative multidimensional scaling (MDS) methods for constraining the stimuli on the circumference of a circle and on the surface of a sphere. Specifically, the existing MDS-T method for plotting the stimuli on the circumference of a circle is applied, and its extension is proposed for constraining the stimuli on the surface of a sphere. The data analyzed come from previous research and concerns Maslach and Jackson's burnout syndrome and Holland's vocational personality types. The configurations for the same data on the circle and the sphere shared similarities but also had differences, that is, the general item-groupings were the same but most of the differences across the two methods resulted in more meaningful interpretations for the three-dimensional configuration. Furthermore, in most cases, items and/or scales could be better discriminated from each other on the sphere.

Highly artistic-social personalities buffer the effects of burnout on career commitment

Whereas burnout among healthcare professionals is highly consequential to their career persistence and commitment, little is known about factors that can mitigate this relationship. Based on Holland⿿s framework, this study examined whether high scores on artistic and social vocational personality types, which reflect greater congruence with the creative arts therapies profession, would buffer against the potentially adverse effects of burnout on career commitment. As expected, a sample of 505 Israeli students and therapists from different specializations (i.e., music, art, drama, and dance) scored significantly higher on the artistic and social vocational personality types than on other types on Holland⿿s RIASEC questionnaire. Burnout significantly negatively correlated with career commitment, and a high composite score on the artistic and social vocational personality types moderated the effect of burnout on career commitment. In addition, earning above the national average salary, working simultaneously in the private and public sectors, affiliation with a professional association, and being a supervisor were associated with less burnout and more career commitment. This study provides insights into the role of profession-related factors that can protect the well-being of creative arts therapies students and practitioners.

ІНСТИТУЦІОНАЛІЗАЦІЯ ПРОФЕСІЙНОЇ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ ЯК ОСНОВА ФОРМУВАННЯ ПРОФЕСІОНАЛІЗМУ

The article contains theoretical and methodological basis of the mechanism of formation of institutional and non-institutional level of professional activity as a basis of professionalism of the person in a modern society. Considering profession as an institution, the author argues that it is advisable to go not only on objective factors of its development but the subjective perception of the profession by the individual. Therefore, the most significant motivator professional labor is defined as the satisfaction of their own profession in the personal value system of life orientations. The author reveals the essence of the concept of «professional» because the term «vocational personality type», focusing on the method of identifying the real object with the ideal model which may be obtained by a perfect design. This design is based on the theory of ideal types of M. Weber and provides design criteria that distinguish the subject of the profession from other professions, determine the inherent interests that distinguish the specific features of a professional. It is shown that the institutional level of the organization of professional activities related to the development of society, which should be played. Promises more effective reproduction of this depends on the level of institutional resources, the cost of regulation of human behavior in all spheres of life, first of all, professional. Thus, the higher the cost of optimizing the institutional level of professional activity, the less the employees see the point in keeping institutional norms. The author draws attention to enhancing the role of professional non-institutional level of human activity, the level at which the main object is not impersonal, and real workers. Go to the specified level of analysis reflects a process that can be described as a «return to man».

Vocational Personality Traits in Counselor Education and School Psychology Students

We assessed the vocational personality of 104 graduate students in school counseling, mental health counseling, and school psychology programs using Holland's () theory of personality and career choice. The correlational findings confirmed the importance of vocational personality traits in relation to the academic performance of graduate students. Among the Self‐Directed Search–Revised vocational personality types, the Investigative type emerged as a consistent predictor of performance on all sections of the Graduate Record Examination. The participants from 3 graduate programs predominantly identified Social as their primary vocational personality type, with variability in the secondary and tertiary code positions. The student group with the highest degree of congruence, defined as the degree of fit between one's personality and the environment, had the highest graduate grade point average, indicating the relationship between the degree of congruence and achievement. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.

Predicting Occupational Congruence

This study compared the congruence between chosen occupation and vocational personality with the congruence between chosen occupation and parent’s occupation, investigating the effects of regulatory focus, career self-efficacy, and parental support. Gender differences were also explored. A sample of 260 undergraduate students completed questionnaires measuring their own and their parent’s vocational personality type, the quality of the parent–child relationship, and their own career self-efficacy and regulatory focus. Vocational congruence was calculated by C-index. The results show that regulatory focus of promotion and both low and high self-efficacy were related to a significantly higher level of congruence between chosen occupation and vocational personality than between chosen occupation and parent’s occupation. However, none of the variables was found to explain the level of congruence between vocational personality and chosen occupation, and no relationship was found between vocational congruence and satisfaction with the chosen profession. The findings indicate the importance of vocational inclinations over parental influence and personality traits in occupational choice. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Assessing Vocational Development in Prospective School Librarians

Objective – To explore the motivations for choosing school librarianship as a career.
 
 Design – Narrative research, qualitative interviews.
 
 Setting – The School Media program specialization in a Master of Library Science program at a large research university.
 
 Subjects – Five graduate school students seeking initial certification as school library media specialists.
 
 Methods – The researcher employed narrative research, based on career construction theory and the Life Story Interview, (McAdams, 1995). This methodology is a set of loosely-structured, open-ended questions designed to encourage detailed, in-depth responses from the participant teller, combined with a more structured Career Style Interview (Savickas, 2005) designed to elicit self-defining stories. 
 
 Data was collected through qualitative interviews, using personal narrative interviews that focused on the entire life of each person from birth to present (Life Story Interviews) and additional questions in an interview format (Career Style Interview.)
 
 Data was collected and analyzed in two stages. The analysis first examined participants as individuals then tried to identify commonalties among the stories. Each life story was examined to determine a career style on the basis of vocational personality, career adaptability and life theme. The interview data was then analyzed for thematic connections and occupational choice. 
 
 Main Results – The final analysis identified the following themes as relevant to the study, and to the career choices of graduate students planning to be school librarians: parental expectations; career changers; librarian mentors; prior library work experiences; reading; library experiences; altruism-service; desire to work with children; financial stability and security; flexibility of work schedule; emotional distance; and vocational personality.
 
 In general, the participants appear to value safe, traditional career choices that allow them to put family first and maintain a flexible work schedule, while also providing financial stability and security. Those who are already teachers noted interest in a job that provides relief and emotional distance from the everyday social problems of students. All five noted the “love of reading” as a motivation for choosing this career path. 
 
 The vocational personality of each subject was determined through interpreting their answers on the Career Interest Surveys, using Holland Occupational Theme RIASEC codes: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. The vocational personality of all five students did not match the predominant code for school librarians. None exhibited a resemblance to the “enterprising” type, the most prominent personality for successful school librarians. All five did exhibit “artistic” vocational personality, and the researcher notes that this may be an explanation for the choice of librarianship as a second career, as artistic types take longer to find a compatible career match. The researcher also notes that the final code is a “best estimate” for each subject. 
 
 Conclusion – Examining the vocational development of the five graduate students through vocational personality, career adaption and life theme afforded a broader viewpoint than traditional survey studies. The determining of vocational personality type may be helpful to recruitment efforts to the profession, and help make the career choice more visible.

Experimental Investigations on Professional Identity, Vocational Personality Type and Stress Level in Adults

Within the Health Psychology field the problems regarding the relationship between personality structure and individual professional area represent a major share. Lack of professional satisfaction (fulfilment) has strong extensions to personal life and to the well-being state and, of course, influences the psychological balance.The study tried to capture the dynamics of the relationship between Professional Identity and stress level (Stress Profile) in adults and some specific characteristics of the vocational personality type (according to the vision of John Holland). The correlation between Professional Identity and Stress Profile was also observed.

Mapping StrengthsQuest Themes to Holland’s Vocational Personality Types

A sample of 1,747 students attending undergraduate classes in legal education at an online university completed the StrengthsQuest assessment as part of a larger investigation; of this number, 117 students also completed the Kuder Career Search. Exploratory factor analysis (principal components followed varimax rotation) of 34 StrengthsQuest theme rankings found 11 factors. The results replicate and extend an earlier report of correlations between StrengthsQuest theme subscales and indicators of Holland’s six vocational personality types. Implications are discussed for the use of the StrengthsQuest in career assessment.