Gd. Gottfredson et al., PERSONALITY AND VOCATIONAL INTERESTS - THE RELATION OF HOLLANDS 6 INTEREST DIMENSIONS TO 5 ROBUST DIMENSIONS OF PERSONALITY, Journal of counseling psychology, 40(4), 1993, pp. 518-524
Relations between interest-based personality dimensions from J. L. Hol
land's (1985a) theory of vocational personalities and 5 robust factors
of personality (R. R. McCrae & O. P. John, 1992) were examined. Resul
ts for 479 male and 246 female U.S. Navy trainees imply that the 6 the
oretical scales of the Vocational Preference Inventory and 20 scales o
f the NEO Personality Inventory share 2 to 4 significant factors. Soci
al and Enterprising vocational preferences were positively correlated
with Extraversion; Investigative and Artistic preferences were positiv
ely correlated with Openness; and Conventional preferences were correl
ated with Conscientiousness. Examinations of correlations for instrume
nts with scales that are assumed to represent facets of 5 general pers
onality factors usually supported these interpretations. Despite their
regularity, the vocational-personality correlations were too low to s
uggest that either form of assessment is a dependable substitute for t
he other.