Vocational Interests and Career Goals: Development and Relations to Personality in Middle Adolescence
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In: Journal of Career Assessment, Vol. 18, No. 3, 01.08.2010, p. 223-238.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Vocational Interests and Career Goals
T2 - Development and Relations to Personality in Middle Adolescence
AU - Hirschi, Andreas
PY - 2010/8/1
Y1 - 2010/8/1
N2 - Cross-sectional research implies a close relation of vocation interests, goals, and traits, yet little is known about their reciprocal development over time. This longitudinal study examined development of Things/People (T/P) and Data/Ideas (D/I) vocational interests and career goals in relation to Big Five personality traits among 292 Swiss adolescents with a cross-lagged panel design with two measurement points over 1 year from seventh to eighth grade. Interests and goals were significantly related within time and showed significant interactions across time. Traits related significantly and equally to interests and goals within time and predicted their development across time except for T/P goals. Goals and interests possessed incremental validity above traits in affecting each other. Implications include the need to account for dynamic processes in the development of goals and interests and their systematic relation to traits in theory and practice.
AB - Cross-sectional research implies a close relation of vocation interests, goals, and traits, yet little is known about their reciprocal development over time. This longitudinal study examined development of Things/People (T/P) and Data/Ideas (D/I) vocational interests and career goals in relation to Big Five personality traits among 292 Swiss adolescents with a cross-lagged panel design with two measurement points over 1 year from seventh to eighth grade. Interests and goals were significantly related within time and showed significant interactions across time. Traits related significantly and equally to interests and goals within time and predicted their development across time except for T/P goals. Goals and interests possessed incremental validity above traits in affecting each other. Implications include the need to account for dynamic processes in the development of goals and interests and their systematic relation to traits in theory and practice.
KW - Business psychology
KW - Adolescent career development
KW - Career aspirations
KW - Career goals
KW - Developmental systems theory
KW - Personality
KW - Vocational interests
UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77954571938&origin=inward&txGid=0
U2 - 10.1177/1069072710364789
DO - 10.1177/1069072710364789
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 18
SP - 223
EP - 238
JO - Journal of Career Assessment
JF - Journal of Career Assessment
SN - 1069-0727
IS - 3
ER -