Article
The role of personality in the selection of a major: With and without vocational self-efficacy and interests
Journal of Vocational Behavior
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Version
Submitted Manuscript
Publication Date
1-1-2010
DOI
10.1016/j.jvb.2009.10.007
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to examine the role of personality traits measured by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ; Tellegen, 2000 and Tellegen and Waller, 2008) in selecting educational majors. Personality traits were examined alone, and with the combination of Holland’s hexagonal confidence domains, as measured by the general confidence themes (GCT) of the Skills Confidence Inventory (SCI; Betz, Borgen, & Harmon, 2005), and Holland’s interest domains, as measured by the general occupational themes (GOTs) of the 2005 Strong Interest Inventory (SII; Donnay, Morris, Schaubhut, & Thompson, 2005). Personality traits significantly contributed to the discrimination of nine educational major families in a sample of 368 undergraduate decided students. When the set of confidence and interest scales was added to the personality traits, the conservative jack knife hit rate was almost doubled.
Copyright Owner
Elsevier Ltd.
Copyright Date
2010
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Lisa M. Larson, Tsui-Feng Wu, Donna C. Bailey, Courtney E. Gasser, et al.. "The role of personality in the selection of a major: With and without vocational self-efficacy and interests" Journal of Vocational Behavior Vol. 76 Iss. 2 (2010) p. 211 - 222 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lisa_larson/9/
NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Vocational Behavior. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Vocational Behavior, [76, 2 (2010)] DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2009.10.007.