HIGHER‐ORDER DIMENSIONS OF THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS AND THE BIG SIX VOCATIONAL INTEREST TYPES

Persons with high levels of artistic interests typically score higher on the Big Five trait openness (ρ = .41).

“For example, persons with high levels of artistic interests typically score higher on the Big Five trait openness (ρ = .41,Mount et al., 2005) or persons high on enterprising interests score higher on extraversion (ρ = .40).”

We observed moderate to high correlations between artistic interests and openness (r = .55), enterprising interests and extraversion (r = .33), and social interests and extraversion (r = .20).

“As expected from previous meta-analytic findings (Mount et al., 2005), we observed moderate to high correlations between artistic interests and openness (r = .55),enterprising interests and extraversion (r = .33),and social interests and extraversion (r = .20).”

Vocational interests and personality traits describe distinct aspects of human individuality.

“It is important to note, however, that although vocational interests and personality traits might share similar psychological processes (Hoff, Song, Einarsdóttir, et al., 2020;Mount et al., 2005), the two phenomena describe distinct aspects of human individuality (see also Roemer et al., 2023).”

Social interests also correlated moderately with conscientiousness (r = .15), which was not the case in the original version (r = À.04) or in the meta-analysis (ρ = .07).

“Somewhat deviating from the previous results, social interests also correlated moderately with conscientiousness (r = .15),which was not the case in the original version (r = À.04;Rounds et al., 2021) or in the meta-analysis (ρ = .07,Mount et al., 2005).”

Correlations between the interest scores and personality trait scores converged with previous findings, suggesting that the scores of the German O*NET IP were adequately located in the nomological network of vocational interests.

“Also, correlations between the interest scores and personality trait scores converged with previous findings (Mount et al., 2005;Rounds et al., 2021), suggesting that the scores of the German O*NET IP were adequately located in the nomological network of vocational interests.”

In both samples, the highest correlation occurred for realistic and conventional interests (r ≥ .54).

“In both samples, the highest correlation occurred for realistic and conventional interests (r ≥ .54),which indicates a stronger relation than reported in meta-analysis (ρ = .27;Mount et al., 2005) or in prior results based on the O*NET IP (e.g., r = .22 in the validation sample; Rounds et al., 2021).”

Specific links between vocational interests and Big Five personality traits have long been established.

“Specific links with Big Five personality traits (Mount et al., 2005) have long been established.”

Persons high on enterprising interests score higher on extraversion (ρ = .40).

“For example, persons with high levels of artistic interests typically score higher on the Big Five trait openness (ρ = .41,Mount et al., 2005) or persons high on enterprising interests score higher on extraversion (ρ = .40).”