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Journal of Counseling Psychology
1993, Vol. 40, No. 4, 518-524 Copyright 1993 by lire American Psychological Association, Inc.
0022-0167/93/$3.OO
Personality and Vocational Interests: The Relation of Holland's Six Interest
Dimensions to Five Robust Dimensions of Personality
Gary D. Gottfreds-jn, Elizabeth M. Jones, and John L. Holland
Relations between interest-based personality dimensions from J. L. Holland's (1985a) theory of
vocational personalities and 5 robust factors of personality (R. R. McCrae & O. P. John, 1992) were
examined. Results for 479 male and 246 female U.S. Navy trainees imply that the 6 theoretical
scales of the Vocational Preference Inventory and 20 scales of the NEO Personality Inventory share
2 to 4 significant factors. Social and Enterprising vocational preferences were positively correlated
with Extraversion; Investigative and Artistic preferences were positively correlated with Openness;
and Conventional preferences were correlated with Conscientiousness. Examinations of correla-
tions for instruments with scales that are assumed to represent facets of 5 general personality
factors usually supported these interpretations. Despite their regularity, the vocational-personality
correlations were too low to suggest that either form of assessment is a dependable substitute for
the other.
The organization of data to facilitate explanation and pre-
diction is a traditional aim of science. In general, simpler
organizations are preferred to more complex organizations if
they achieve a similar degree of explanatory power. Thus,
many workers in the personality assessment field have used
factor analyses of specific personality indexes to organize
these data by reference to a small number of factors.
Early research by Tupes and Christal (1961/1992) and by
Norman (1963) suggested that a small number of replicable
factors provided a useful organization of multiple specific
personality assessments. In more recent years, the search for
robust factors of personality has coalesced into a five-factor
model of personality (Digman, 1990; Goldberg, 1993; Mc-
Crae & John, 1992; Wiggins & Pincus, 1992). There are
several operationalizations of the "big five" factors in per-
sonality inventories (Costa & McCrae, 1985; Goldberg,
1992; Hogan, 1986; Trapnell & Wiggins, 1990). The five-
factor model provides a useful structure for interpreting and
organizing information derived from a variety of inventories.
Different authors assign different names to the five per-
sonality factors, and inventories differ in the order in which
scores are organized. This makes introduction of the factors
and the organization of information cumbersome. Here we
follow an emerging convention of labeling factors with
Roman numerals. The following are generic labels (and, in
parentheses, the name applied by Costa & McCrae, 1985)
for each of the five personality factors: I. Extraversion
(Extraversion), II. Likability (Agreeableness), III. Control
Gary D. Gottfredson, Elizabeth M. Jones, and John L. Holland,
Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity.
We are grateful for the assistance of Susan A. McLean in pre-
paring the article.
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to
Gary D. Gottfredson, Johns Hopkins University, Center for Social
Organization of Schools, 3505 North Charles Street, Baltimore,
Maryland 21218.
(Conscientiousness), IV. Neuroticism (Neuroticism), and
V. Intellectance (Openness).
Researchers have also sought useful organizing schemes
for vocational interests (vocational preferences and voca-
tional personalities). In the 1938 revision of his inventory,
Strong imposed an organization on the occupational scales
of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (Campbell, 1971).
Later, impressed by the usefulness of Roe's (1956) occupa-
tional classification and the usefulness of Kuder's (1960)
small number of vocational interest dimensions—and build-
ing on factor-analytic work conducted by Guilford, Chris-
tensen, Bond, and Sutton (1954)—Holland (1966) proposed
six dimensions of vocational preferences in a typology of
vocational personalities. In that proposal, the six dimensions
of vocational personality are regarded as assessing a person's
degree of resemblance to six personality "types." There have
been several operationalizations of Holland's six dimensions
in interest inventories (Campbell, 1977; Gottfredson, 1988;
Hansen & Campbell, 1985; Holland, 1985b, 1985c; Johan-
sson, 1982). Also, many interest inventories have classified
or interpreted more specific interest scales in terms of Hol-
land's six dimensions.
One study (Costa, McCrae, & Holland, 1984) explored the
relations between the six vocational personality scales of the
Self-Directed Search (SDS; Holland, 1985b) and three scales
of the NEO (Neuroticism-Extraversion-Openness) Inventory
(McCrae & Costa, 1983), which was a forerunner of the
five-factor NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI; Costa &
McCrae, 1985). In a sample of 394 adults, Investigative and
Artistic SDS scores were moderately positively correlated
with NEO Openness, and Social and Enterprising SDS scores
were moderately positively correlated with NEO Extraver-
sion scores. A second investigation (Hogan, 1986) reported
results consistent with the interpretation that Intellectance
(which appears to be related to the NEO Openness factor) is
most strongly correlated with the SDS Investigative scale and
that Ambition and Sociability (which appear to be related to
the NEO Extraversion factor) are correlated most with the
SDS Social and Enterprising scales.
518
PERSONALITY AND INTERESTS 519
In this article, we extend these earlier inquiries by report-
ing on the relations between five-factor personality theory,
as represented by the NEO-PI (Costa & McCrae, 1985), and
vocational personality, as represented by the Vocational Pref-
erence Inventory (VPI; Holland, 1985c). We also summarize
correlations between the scales of a variety of personality
inventories presumed to represent each of the five factors of
personality and Holland's six dimensions according to the
SDS or VPI.
Method
Participants
Male (n = 479) and female (n = 246) recruits who were be-
ginning basic training in U.S. Navy training centers were studied.
Women from five companies and men from seven companies were
assembled in groups and asked to complete the VPI (Holland,
1985c) and the NEO-PI (Costa & McCrae, 1985) at an early stage
in their training. The mean age of men was 19 years (range = 16
to 31), and the mean age of women was 21 years (range = 17 to
35). Approximately 59% of the women and 73% of the men were
high school graduates. Most recruits also completed several other
tasks not examined here (see Holland, Gottfredson, & Baker, 1990).
The VPI, a personality inventory composed entirely of occupa-
tional titles, is the source of six 14-item theoretical scales measuring
the six Holland dimensions: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, So-
cial, Enterprising, and Conventional. In the present sample, Kuder-
Richardson 21 ranged from .82 to .92 for women and from .78 to
.89 for men across the six scales. The NEO-PI measures five per-
sonality factors—I. Extraversion, II. Agreeableness, HI. Conscien-
tiousness, IV. Neuroticism, and V. Openness—and six facets each
for three of these factors. Costa and McCrae (1985, 1989) reported
alpha reliabilities for the five factor scales ranging from .76 to .93
(with all alphas except for Agreeableness higher than .86).
Analyses
Canonical correlation analysis was conducted to assess the sig-
nificance of common factors between the scales of the NEO-PI and
those of the VPI. In this analysis, the relations between linear com-
posites of scales from the two inventories were examined to explore
the magnitude of the correlations between one or more common
orthogonal, maximally related factors for the two inventories.
The NEO-PI produces redundant scores by including both facet
scales and factor scales for Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Open-
ness. Therefore, analyses were based on the facet scores for these
three factors (six facets each of Extraversion, Neuroticism, and
Openness) and the factor scores for Agreeableness and Conscien-
tiousness. The six theoretical vocational personality scales of the
VPI were also examined (omitting the VPI's other four scales and
its acquiescence index).
Specific correlations between each NEO-PI factor and facet score
and each VPI score were calculated for men and women to provide
a more fine-grained examination of the relations between the spe-
cific scales of the two respective instruments.
Organization of Previous Results
Our original analyses were supplemented by organizing available
correlations between measures of Holland's vocational personality
constructs and scales from a variety of inventories presumed to
represent the five factors of personality. The following sources were
used: (a) the Navy recruit samples described earlier; (b) a study of
an adult sample of men and women conducted by Costa et al.
(1984); (c) correlations for 104 Missouri adults studied by Holland,
Johnston, Asama, and Polys (1993); (d) Navy enlisted personnel for
whom Hogan (1986) reported results; (e) National Merit Scholar-
ship finalists (Holland, 1978); (f) sales job applicants (Holland,
1978); and (g) college students tested by G. I. Kelso (correlations
reported by Holland, 1978). No claim is made that all pertinent
correlations have been found.
Specific scales in our tables marked as representing the big five
factors were identified after consulting correspondence tables pro-
posed by Digman (1990) and by McCrae and John (1992). In a few
cases, we overruled the correspondence suggested in these sources
when our knowledge of the scale implied this was appropriate. For
example, whereas Digman (1990) suggested a correspondence of
the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) Exvia scale
with Factor I (Extraversion), we placed Exvia under Factor V
(Intellectance).
Results
An exploration of the number of factors that the VPI and
the NEO-PI have in common are difficult to summarize suc-
cintly because the results of canonical analyses performed in
different ways are somewhat different. For the entire sample
of men and women, five canonical factors were significant
(p < .003). When analyses were conducted separately for
men and women, two canonical factors were significant for
women (p < .002) and four were significant for men (p <
.004). Significance levels depend on sample sizes, of course,
so one interpretation of these results is that the two inven-
tories have at least two and up to four factors in common. For
the female sample, four factors had squared canonical cor-
relations larger than .10; thus, by this criterion, the third and
fourth factors are equally important for women and men.
Table 1 shows the correlations between the inventory scales
and the first four factors for both sexes.
The structural coefficients shown in Table 1 suggest that
the first and largest factor involves artistic and investigative
interests and a personality style characterized by openness.
The remaining factors are more difficult to interpret. For
men, the second factor seems to be related to extraversion
(inversely); for women, both the second and the third factors
seem weakly related to extraversion. The third factor for men
and the fourth factor for women suggest that elevated scores
on all six VPI scales are somewhat related to having low
scores on neuroticism. Regardless of the interpretation of
these orthogonal canonical factors, the results imply that the
two inventories have two to four significant factors of non-
trivial size in common between the two inventories, only the
first of which is large and easily interpreted.
Correlations between the NEO-PI and the VPI scales for
men are shown in Table 2, and correlations for women are
shown in Table 3. There was a tendency for the six VPI
theoretical personality scales to have small negative corre-
lations with the NEO-PI Neuroticism factor scale and the six
facet scales. Although often statistically significant, these
correlations did not reach -.20 in magnitude.
520 G. GOTTFREDSON, E. JONES, AND J. HOLLAND
Table 1
Correlations of Assessment Scores With Canonical Factors for Men and Women
Inventory and scale
Vocational Preference Inventory
Realistic
Investigative
Artistic
Social
Enterprising
Conventional
NEO Personality Inventory
I. Extraversion facets
Warmth
Gregariousness
Assertiveness
Activity
Excitement-seeking
Positive emotions
II. Agreeableness
III. Conscientiousness
IV. Neuroticism facets
Anxiety
Hostility
Depression
Self-consciousness
Impulsiveness
Vulnerability
V. Openness facets
Fantasy
Aesthetics
Feelings
Actions
Ideas
Values
R
Wilks's lambda
1
-31
31
81
21
09
-19
-01
-05
04
-02
03
15
-03
-24
10
09
05
09
14
11
51
86
30
24
42
24
54
45
Canonical
2
15
-06
-13
-70
-75
-60
-54
-53
-70
-27
02
-28
-16
-38
-05
30
09
18
10
16
13
-16
-32
23
-10
-11
38
64
factors for men
3
57
67
45
54
17
64
17
02
-08
16
12
28
54
53
-03
-41
-07
-22
-28
-30
-37
40
08
18
30
-09
33
74
4
37
-49
28
16
10
04
-04
05
-25
-16
06
13
-17
-23
41
43
47
15
24
48
-08
06
05
-13
-62
-44
28
84
1
27
58
84
15
27
-16
-18
-08
03
-05
-14
-10
-16
00
-05
-03
-10
03
-02
-03
42
79
21
18
38
-08
60
34
Canonical
2
47
35
14
-31
28
56
-38
-16
-08
-22
-13
-40
-12
45
-22
12
03
-10
-26
03
-10
-18
-39
-27
05
-25
47
53
factors for women
3
-03
-30
43
12
-09
32
02
02
-24
-22
-42
-02
12
17
08
-14
12
08
-26
00
-36
19
-13
10
-36
-27
34
68
4
76
47
15
75
16
33
44
15
15
-05
08
25
31
15
-28
-39
-19
-39
-23
-53
14
15
11
57
56
52
32
78
246).
The VPI Social and Enterprising scales usually were sig-
nificantly positively correlated with NEO-PI factor and facet
scales for Extraversion for the male subsample. Correlations
for women were smaller and usually nonsignificant. No cor-
relation exceeded .23 in size.
The VPI Investigative and Artistic scales were positively
correlated with the NEO-PI Openness factor and most of the
associated facet scores. The Artistic scale had a correlation
above .40 with Aesthetics (a facet of Openness) for both men
and women. Correlations of Openness facets with the In-
vestigative scale, although generally positive, were always
.28 or lower.
NEO-PI Agreeableness had no correlation as large as .20
with any VPI scale. NEO-PI Conscientiousness had signifi-
cant positive correlations (.17 for women and .25 for men)
with the VPI Conventional scale.
Correlations from the present investigation and from
other studies are assembled in Table 4. This table is or-
ganized to show correlations of Holland scales with
scales from the NEO-PI, the Hogan Personality Inventory
(Hogan, 1986), the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament
Survey (GZTS; Guilford & Zimmerman, 1948), the
= 479) and two were significant for women (n =
California Psychological Inventory (CPI; Gough, 1957),
and the 16PF (Cattell, Eber, & Tatsuoka, 1970) that
are assumed to be markers for each of the five personality
factors.
The correlations shown in Table 4 may be interpreted as
follows: Scales presumed to be related to the Extraversion
factor (I) tended to have positive correlations with the VPI
Social and Enterprising scales. Scales presumed to be mark-
ers for Likability (II) usually had small correlations with the
VPI theoretical personality scales. Scales presumed to be
markers for Control (III) usually had moderate positive cor-
relations with VPI Conventional scores, although the CPI
Socialization and Self-Control scales did not. Markers for
Neuroticism (IV) were usually negatively correlated with all
of the VPI theoretical personality scales. Markers for Intel-
lectance (V) were often correlated with the VPI Investigative
and Artistic scales. The 16PF Intelligence score was not cor-
related with Investigative or Artistic scores in the sample of
National Merit Scholarship finalists, probably because of an
insufficient ceiling in the Intelligence scale for this sample.
The CPI Achievement via Independence and the GZTS
Thoughtfulness scales diverged from other markers for In-
PERSONALITY AND INTERESTS 521
Table 2
Correlations Between NEO Personality Inventory Scales and Vocational Preference Inventory Scales: Men
NEO Personality Inventory
scale and facet scale
Vocational Preference Inventory Scale
Realistic
05
02
00
-03
04
11
07
10
10
-03
-03
02
01
-04
-05
-06
-11
-17
-07
-06
03
-08
-09
Investigative
10
07
01
08
08
08
11
16
12
-13
-08
-11
-09
-06
-08
-15
25
00
23
06
12
23
10
Artistic
08
04
03
04
02
05
13
06
-01
04
07
01
03
00
03
03
34
16
45
16
11
18
06
Social
19
19
12
16
09
02
16
14
14
-06
03
-13
01
-05
-05
-08
14
-06
21
13
00
10
04
Enterprising
23
16
19
25
11
07
12
06
15
-06
00
-04
-06
-08
-04
-06
07
-03
12
12
-03
06
02
Conventional
17
14
16
15
10
03
09
13
25
-12
00
-14
-06
-12
-10
-10
-02
-15
04
07
-04
04
-04
I.
II.
Ill
Extraversion
Warmth
Gregariousness
Assertiveness
Activity
Excitement seeking
Positive emotions
Agreeableness
Conscientiousness
IV. Neuroticism
Anxiety
Hostility
Depression
Self-consciousness
Impulsiveness
Vulnerability
Openness
Fantasy
Aesthetics
Feelings
Actions
Ideas
Values
V.
Note. N = 479. Decimal points are omitted. Correlations of .09 or larger in absolute value are significant at the p < .05 level.
Table 3
Correlations Between NEO Personality Inventory Scales and Vocational Preference Inventory Scales: Women
NEO PersonalityInventory
scale and facet scale
I. Extraversion
Warmth
Gregariousness
Assertiveness
Activity
Excitement seeking
Positive emotions
II. Agreeableness
III. Conscientiousness
IV. Neuroticism
Anxiety
Hostility
Depression
Self-consciousness
Impulsiveness
Vulnerability
V. Openness
Fantasy
Aesthetics
Feelings
Actions
Ideas
Values
Realistic
-02
-02
01
03
-06
-02
-04
03
11
-12
-14
-05
-03
-10
-09
-12
16
10
12
-03
12
20
08
Investigative
-06
-06
-08
02
-02
-02
-06
-04
11
-10
-09
-06
-09
-07
-09
-08
25
18
26
05
08
28
04
Vocational Preference Inventory
Artistic
-09
-07
-01
00
-10
-13
-07
-07
06
-08
-05
-06
-06
-02
-08
-05
22
16
42
06
10
17
-10
Social
11
19
10
08
-05
02
10
05
00
-15
-05
-16
-12
-13
-06
-17
18
05
13
09
16
17
08
Scale
Enterprising
02
02
10
09
-14
01
-06
-10
07
-12
-10
-05
-13
-14
-06
-08
03
06
09
-03
-03
13
-13
Conventional
-04
02
05
01
-15
-04
-08
-02
17
-13
-10
-07
-07
-14
-15
-08
-13
-11
-10
-13
-06
03
-12
Note. N = 246. Decimal points are omitted. Correlations of .13 or larger in absolute value are significant at the p < .05 level.
522 G. GOTTFREDSON, E. JONES, AND J. HOLLAND
Table 4
Correlations Between the Theoretical Scales of the Vocational Preference Inventory and Measures of Five Robust
Dimensions of Personality From Different Inventories
Personality dimension
and scale Sample
Instru-
ment N R I
Dimension I (Extraversion)
NEO-PI Extraversion3
NEO-PI Extroversion"
NEO-PI Extraversion0
Ambition (HPI)
Sociability (HPI)
Social Activity (GZTS)
Sociability (CPI)
Dimension II (Likability)
NEO-PI Agreeablenessa
NEO-PI Agreeablenessc
Likability (HPI)
Cortertia (Controlled, 16PF)
Femininity (CPI)
Dimension III (Control)
NEO-PI Conscientiousness"
NEO-PI Conscientiousness0
Prudence (HPI)
Super Ego Strength
(Conscientious, 16PF)
Restraint (GZTS)
Socialization (CPI)
Self-Control (CPI)
Dimension IV (Neuroticism)
NEO-PI Neuroticisma
NEO-PI Neuroticismb
NEO-PI Neuroticismc
Low Adjustment (HPI)
Anxiety (16PF)
Low Objectivity (GZTS)
Low Well Being (CPI)
Dimension V (Intellectance)
NEO-PI Openness3
NEO-PI Openness"
NEO-PI Opennessc
Intellectance (HPI)
Intelligence (16PF)
Exvia (Radicalism, 16PF)
Thoughtfulness (GZTS)
Achievement via Independence (CPI)
Intellectual Efficiency (CPI)
Psychological Mindedness (CPI)
Male Navy recruits
Female Navy recruits
Adult men
Adult women
Missouri adults
Navy enlisted personnel
Navy enlisted personnel
Sales job applicants
College students
Male Navy recruits
Female Navy recruits
Missouri adults
Navy enlisted personnel
Male National Merit Scholarship finalists
Female National Merit Scholarship finalists
College students
Male Navy recruits
Female Navy recruits
Missouri adults
Navy enlisted personnel
Male National Merit Scholarship finalists
Female National Merit Scholarship finalists
Sales job applicants
College students
College students
Male Navy recruits
Female Navy recruits
Adult men
Adult women
Missouri adults
Navy enlisted personnel
Male National Merit Scholarship finalists
Female National Merit Scholarship finalists
Sales job applicants
College students
Male Navy recruits
Female Navy recruits
Adult men
Adult women
Missouri adults
Navy enlisted personnel
Male National Merit Scholarship finalists
Female National Merit Scholarship finalists
Male National Merit Scholarship finalists
Female National Merit Scholarship finalists
Sales job applicants
College students
College students
College students
VPI
VPI
SDS
SDS
SDS
SDS
SDS
VPI
VPI
VPI
VPI
SDS
SDS
VPI
VPI
VPI
VPI
VPI
SDS
SDS
VPI
VPI
VPI
VPI
VPI
VPI
VPI
SDS
SDS
SDS
SDS
VPI
VPI
VPI
VPI
VPI
VPI
SDS
SDS
SDS
SDS
VPI
VPI
VPI
VPI
VPI
VPI
VPI
VPI
479
246
2)7
144
104
167
167
200
188
479
246
104
167
783
394
188
479
246
104
167
783
394
200
188
188
479
246
217
144
104
167
783
394
200
188
479
246
217
144
104
167
783
394
783
394
200
188
188
188
05
-02
14
05
04
13
05
-08
00
10
03
-29
10
09
12
-16
10
11
03
-21
06
16
-13
19
08
-03
-12
-08
09
-01
-18
-02
12
20
-08
-11
16
12
17
24
03
-11
04
08
-01
02
02
05
-08
10
-06
00
14
12
15
09
-02
14
16
-04
-12
15
12
10
-10
12
11
03
-02
04
09
05
10
00
-13
-10
-13
-05
-14
-04
22
12
-09
-14
25
25
33
40
36
55
-06
-02
20
19
09
01
19
20
08
-09
18
33
01
19
19
13
08
06
-07
10
30
-02
10
12
-01
06
-02
02
-11
-04
-09
-20
-23
04
-08
16
03
-01
07
08
-10
09
06
34
22
49
53
52
36
04
-03
05
08
10
08
09
-03
19
11
50
43
26
28
34
20
19
14
05
23
39
-07
01
11
14
00
11
19
11
04
-03
05
10
-06
-15
-09
-17
03
-17
-30
-30
-05
-17
14
18
17
28
24
28
-02
-10
-14
-22
19
10
10
00
23
02
65
51
38
49
34
48
26
06
-10
-04
30
-11
-14
-09
15
07
24
09
09
01
-09
-02
-08
-06
-12
-04
-08
-07
-03
-29
-27
-06
-05
07
03
16
23
09
32
-10
-02
-18
-05
-07
-13
00
-08
17
-04
15
-10
12
34
09
11
-05
13
-02
05
13
-08
-01
-07
25
17
34
25
18
17
29
00
-03
-12
-13
05
02
02
-05
-14
-15
01
15
-02
-13
00
-15
-26
35
-07
-02
-08
-16
18
-17
-17
-10
Note. Decimal points are omitted. R = Realistic; I = Investigative; A = Artistic; S = Social; E = Enterprising; C = Conventional.
NEO-PI = NEO Personality Inventory. VPI = Vocational Preference Inventory. SDS = Self-Directed Search. HPI = Hogan (1986)
Personality Inventory. 16PF = Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire correlations reported by Holland (1978). GZTS = Guilford-
Zimmerman Temperament Survey correlations reported by Holland (1978). CPI = California Psychological Inventory correlations
reported by G. I. Kelso (cited in Holland, 1978). In instances in which scale names may not be easily understood, alternative designations
are also given in parentheses in the first column.
a
Present study. b
Costa, McCrae, and Holland (1984). c
Holland, Johnston, Asama, and Polys (1993).
PERSONALITY AND INTERESTS 523
Table 5
Median Correlations Between Presumed Markers for Personality Factors and Holland Scales
Personality factor
I. Extraversion
II. Likability
HI. Control
IV. Neuroticism
V. Intellectance
Realistic
05
09
08
-02
04
Investigative
10
10
05
-10
20
Artistic
13
10
-04
05
10
Social
26
11
10
-16
12
Enterprising
38
-09
07
-06
02
Conventional
11
-01
18
-02
-09
Note. Decimal points are omitted.
tellectance; they were not much correlated with VPI Inves-
tigative or Artistic scores. The correlations from Table 4 are
summarized in Table 5, which displays the median correla-
tions of Holland scales with scales representing each per-
sonality factor.
Discussion
This article has pulled together data from a variety of
samples and instruments to provide information on the de-
gree of overlap between two approaches to organizing per-
sonality information. None of the information sources is
ideal. Perhaps the most diverse sample of large size—and
therefore the sample that comes closest to being ideal for
studying the relations between the two personality assess-
ment structures—is the adult sample studied by Costa et al.
(1984). For that sample, however, information was reported
only for three of the five personality factors. Other samples
are limited in one way or another, andjudgment was involved
in selecting markers from a variety of instruments for the
five-factor system.
Despite these limitations, the results imply that the per-
sonality variables represented by the five factors are related
to Holland's six personality dimensions. Thus, despite de-
cades of separate development, vocational interests or pref-
erences and personality as assessed by variables subsumed
by the five-factor model are related. In short, we second and
extend the conclusion of Costa et al.'s (1984) earlier inves-
tigation. Extraversion (I) is related to social and enterprising
interests. Intellectance (V) is related to investigative and ar-
tistic interests, and Control (III) is related to conventional
interests. Neuroticism (IV) has small negative correlations
with all six Holland interest dimensions (see also Gottfredson
& Jones, 1993).
Nevertheless, the correlations tend to be small to modest
in size, with the exception of the correlations between
some markers for Intellectance (V) and Artistic and Inves-
tigative interests. Equally important, the sizes of correla-
tions representing the same factors estimated using differ-
ent scales for different samples are extremely variable. For
example, the correlation in Table 4 of VPI and SDS Artis-
tic scales with the alternative markers for Intellectance (V)
range from -.03 to .53 for different samples. Therefore,
neither the canonical correlations of Table 1 nor the me-
dian correlations of Table 5 should be regarded as defini-
tive. There is still a need for research with large diverse
samples using scales developed specifically to represent
the five robust personality factors (e.g., Goldberg, 1992)
and scales measuring Holland's dimensions.
Our results also suggest that the important Neuroticism
(IV), Likability (II), and Control (III) domains are not well
represented in Holland's interest dimensions. Because
Neuroticism, Likability, and Control are probably all rel-
evant to core problems in vocational psychology—work
adjustment, job satisfaction, integrity, and interpersonal re-
lations in the workplace—supplementing interest assess-
ments with assessments of these three factors or with more
comprehensive assessments of all five robust personality
factors may be useful in counseling and organizational ap-
plications. In other words, counselors should supplement
Holland's formulations about the types and about person-
environment interactions with straightforward applications
of the personality dimensions omitted from Holland's
theory—especially Neuroticism, Likability, and Con-
scientiousness—to understand client problems such as job
dissatisfaction and work adjustment.
Wiggins and Pincus (1992) recently illustrated how the
five-factor model might be useful in counseling related to
interpersonal problems. Research and examples that supple-
ment interest assessment using Holland's six interest dimen-
sions with assessment of some or all of the five personality
factors now appear useful.
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PERSONALITY AND VOCATIONAL John holland 1993

  • 1. Journal of Counseling Psychology 1993, Vol. 40, No. 4, 518-524 Copyright 1993 by lire American Psychological Association, Inc. 0022-0167/93/$3.OO Personality and Vocational Interests: The Relation of Holland's Six Interest Dimensions to Five Robust Dimensions of Personality Gary D. Gottfreds-jn, Elizabeth M. Jones, and John L. Holland Relations between interest-based personality dimensions from J. L. Holland's (1985a) theory of vocational personalities and 5 robust factors of personality (R. R. McCrae & O. P. John, 1992) were examined. Results for 479 male and 246 female U.S. Navy trainees imply that the 6 theoretical scales of the Vocational Preference Inventory and 20 scales of the NEO Personality Inventory share 2 to 4 significant factors. Social and Enterprising vocational preferences were positively correlated with Extraversion; Investigative and Artistic preferences were positively correlated with Openness; and Conventional preferences were correlated with Conscientiousness. Examinations of correla- tions for instruments with scales that are assumed to represent facets of 5 general personality factors usually supported these interpretations. Despite their regularity, the vocational-personality correlations were too low to suggest that either form of assessment is a dependable substitute for the other. The organization of data to facilitate explanation and pre- diction is a traditional aim of science. In general, simpler organizations are preferred to more complex organizations if they achieve a similar degree of explanatory power. Thus, many workers in the personality assessment field have used factor analyses of specific personality indexes to organize these data by reference to a small number of factors. Early research by Tupes and Christal (1961/1992) and by Norman (1963) suggested that a small number of replicable factors provided a useful organization of multiple specific personality assessments. In more recent years, the search for robust factors of personality has coalesced into a five-factor model of personality (Digman, 1990; Goldberg, 1993; Mc- Crae & John, 1992; Wiggins & Pincus, 1992). There are several operationalizations of the "big five" factors in per- sonality inventories (Costa & McCrae, 1985; Goldberg, 1992; Hogan, 1986; Trapnell & Wiggins, 1990). The five- factor model provides a useful structure for interpreting and organizing information derived from a variety of inventories. Different authors assign different names to the five per- sonality factors, and inventories differ in the order in which scores are organized. This makes introduction of the factors and the organization of information cumbersome. Here we follow an emerging convention of labeling factors with Roman numerals. The following are generic labels (and, in parentheses, the name applied by Costa & McCrae, 1985) for each of the five personality factors: I. Extraversion (Extraversion), II. Likability (Agreeableness), III. Control Gary D. Gottfredson, Elizabeth M. Jones, and John L. Holland, Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins Univer- sity. We are grateful for the assistance of Susan A. McLean in pre- paring the article. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Gary D. Gottfredson, Johns Hopkins University, Center for Social Organization of Schools, 3505 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218. (Conscientiousness), IV. Neuroticism (Neuroticism), and V. Intellectance (Openness). Researchers have also sought useful organizing schemes for vocational interests (vocational preferences and voca- tional personalities). In the 1938 revision of his inventory, Strong imposed an organization on the occupational scales of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (Campbell, 1971). Later, impressed by the usefulness of Roe's (1956) occupa- tional classification and the usefulness of Kuder's (1960) small number of vocational interest dimensions—and build- ing on factor-analytic work conducted by Guilford, Chris- tensen, Bond, and Sutton (1954)—Holland (1966) proposed six dimensions of vocational preferences in a typology of vocational personalities. In that proposal, the six dimensions of vocational personality are regarded as assessing a person's degree of resemblance to six personality "types." There have been several operationalizations of Holland's six dimensions in interest inventories (Campbell, 1977; Gottfredson, 1988; Hansen & Campbell, 1985; Holland, 1985b, 1985c; Johan- sson, 1982). Also, many interest inventories have classified or interpreted more specific interest scales in terms of Hol- land's six dimensions. One study (Costa, McCrae, & Holland, 1984) explored the relations between the six vocational personality scales of the Self-Directed Search (SDS; Holland, 1985b) and three scales of the NEO (Neuroticism-Extraversion-Openness) Inventory (McCrae & Costa, 1983), which was a forerunner of the five-factor NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI; Costa & McCrae, 1985). In a sample of 394 adults, Investigative and Artistic SDS scores were moderately positively correlated with NEO Openness, and Social and Enterprising SDS scores were moderately positively correlated with NEO Extraver- sion scores. A second investigation (Hogan, 1986) reported results consistent with the interpretation that Intellectance (which appears to be related to the NEO Openness factor) is most strongly correlated with the SDS Investigative scale and that Ambition and Sociability (which appear to be related to the NEO Extraversion factor) are correlated most with the SDS Social and Enterprising scales. 518
  • 2. PERSONALITY AND INTERESTS 519 In this article, we extend these earlier inquiries by report- ing on the relations between five-factor personality theory, as represented by the NEO-PI (Costa & McCrae, 1985), and vocational personality, as represented by the Vocational Pref- erence Inventory (VPI; Holland, 1985c). We also summarize correlations between the scales of a variety of personality inventories presumed to represent each of the five factors of personality and Holland's six dimensions according to the SDS or VPI. Method Participants Male (n = 479) and female (n = 246) recruits who were be- ginning basic training in U.S. Navy training centers were studied. Women from five companies and men from seven companies were assembled in groups and asked to complete the VPI (Holland, 1985c) and the NEO-PI (Costa & McCrae, 1985) at an early stage in their training. The mean age of men was 19 years (range = 16 to 31), and the mean age of women was 21 years (range = 17 to 35). Approximately 59% of the women and 73% of the men were high school graduates. Most recruits also completed several other tasks not examined here (see Holland, Gottfredson, & Baker, 1990). The VPI, a personality inventory composed entirely of occupa- tional titles, is the source of six 14-item theoretical scales measuring the six Holland dimensions: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, So- cial, Enterprising, and Conventional. In the present sample, Kuder- Richardson 21 ranged from .82 to .92 for women and from .78 to .89 for men across the six scales. The NEO-PI measures five per- sonality factors—I. Extraversion, II. Agreeableness, HI. Conscien- tiousness, IV. Neuroticism, and V. Openness—and six facets each for three of these factors. Costa and McCrae (1985, 1989) reported alpha reliabilities for the five factor scales ranging from .76 to .93 (with all alphas except for Agreeableness higher than .86). Analyses Canonical correlation analysis was conducted to assess the sig- nificance of common factors between the scales of the NEO-PI and those of the VPI. In this analysis, the relations between linear com- posites of scales from the two inventories were examined to explore the magnitude of the correlations between one or more common orthogonal, maximally related factors for the two inventories. The NEO-PI produces redundant scores by including both facet scales and factor scales for Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Open- ness. Therefore, analyses were based on the facet scores for these three factors (six facets each of Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Openness) and the factor scores for Agreeableness and Conscien- tiousness. The six theoretical vocational personality scales of the VPI were also examined (omitting the VPI's other four scales and its acquiescence index). Specific correlations between each NEO-PI factor and facet score and each VPI score were calculated for men and women to provide a more fine-grained examination of the relations between the spe- cific scales of the two respective instruments. Organization of Previous Results Our original analyses were supplemented by organizing available correlations between measures of Holland's vocational personality constructs and scales from a variety of inventories presumed to represent the five factors of personality. The following sources were used: (a) the Navy recruit samples described earlier; (b) a study of an adult sample of men and women conducted by Costa et al. (1984); (c) correlations for 104 Missouri adults studied by Holland, Johnston, Asama, and Polys (1993); (d) Navy enlisted personnel for whom Hogan (1986) reported results; (e) National Merit Scholar- ship finalists (Holland, 1978); (f) sales job applicants (Holland, 1978); and (g) college students tested by G. I. Kelso (correlations reported by Holland, 1978). No claim is made that all pertinent correlations have been found. Specific scales in our tables marked as representing the big five factors were identified after consulting correspondence tables pro- posed by Digman (1990) and by McCrae and John (1992). In a few cases, we overruled the correspondence suggested in these sources when our knowledge of the scale implied this was appropriate. For example, whereas Digman (1990) suggested a correspondence of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) Exvia scale with Factor I (Extraversion), we placed Exvia under Factor V (Intellectance). Results An exploration of the number of factors that the VPI and the NEO-PI have in common are difficult to summarize suc- cintly because the results of canonical analyses performed in different ways are somewhat different. For the entire sample of men and women, five canonical factors were significant (p < .003). When analyses were conducted separately for men and women, two canonical factors were significant for women (p < .002) and four were significant for men (p < .004). Significance levels depend on sample sizes, of course, so one interpretation of these results is that the two inven- tories have at least two and up to four factors in common. For the female sample, four factors had squared canonical cor- relations larger than .10; thus, by this criterion, the third and fourth factors are equally important for women and men. Table 1 shows the correlations between the inventory scales and the first four factors for both sexes. The structural coefficients shown in Table 1 suggest that the first and largest factor involves artistic and investigative interests and a personality style characterized by openness. The remaining factors are more difficult to interpret. For men, the second factor seems to be related to extraversion (inversely); for women, both the second and the third factors seem weakly related to extraversion. The third factor for men and the fourth factor for women suggest that elevated scores on all six VPI scales are somewhat related to having low scores on neuroticism. Regardless of the interpretation of these orthogonal canonical factors, the results imply that the two inventories have two to four significant factors of non- trivial size in common between the two inventories, only the first of which is large and easily interpreted. Correlations between the NEO-PI and the VPI scales for men are shown in Table 2, and correlations for women are shown in Table 3. There was a tendency for the six VPI theoretical personality scales to have small negative corre- lations with the NEO-PI Neuroticism factor scale and the six facet scales. Although often statistically significant, these correlations did not reach -.20 in magnitude.
  • 3. 520 G. GOTTFREDSON, E. JONES, AND J. HOLLAND Table 1 Correlations of Assessment Scores With Canonical Factors for Men and Women Inventory and scale Vocational Preference Inventory Realistic Investigative Artistic Social Enterprising Conventional NEO Personality Inventory I. Extraversion facets Warmth Gregariousness Assertiveness Activity Excitement-seeking Positive emotions II. Agreeableness III. Conscientiousness IV. Neuroticism facets Anxiety Hostility Depression Self-consciousness Impulsiveness Vulnerability V. Openness facets Fantasy Aesthetics Feelings Actions Ideas Values R Wilks's lambda 1 -31 31 81 21 09 -19 -01 -05 04 -02 03 15 -03 -24 10 09 05 09 14 11 51 86 30 24 42 24 54 45 Canonical 2 15 -06 -13 -70 -75 -60 -54 -53 -70 -27 02 -28 -16 -38 -05 30 09 18 10 16 13 -16 -32 23 -10 -11 38 64 factors for men 3 57 67 45 54 17 64 17 02 -08 16 12 28 54 53 -03 -41 -07 -22 -28 -30 -37 40 08 18 30 -09 33 74 4 37 -49 28 16 10 04 -04 05 -25 -16 06 13 -17 -23 41 43 47 15 24 48 -08 06 05 -13 -62 -44 28 84 1 27 58 84 15 27 -16 -18 -08 03 -05 -14 -10 -16 00 -05 -03 -10 03 -02 -03 42 79 21 18 38 -08 60 34 Canonical 2 47 35 14 -31 28 56 -38 -16 -08 -22 -13 -40 -12 45 -22 12 03 -10 -26 03 -10 -18 -39 -27 05 -25 47 53 factors for women 3 -03 -30 43 12 -09 32 02 02 -24 -22 -42 -02 12 17 08 -14 12 08 -26 00 -36 19 -13 10 -36 -27 34 68 4 76 47 15 75 16 33 44 15 15 -05 08 25 31 15 -28 -39 -19 -39 -23 -53 14 15 11 57 56 52 32 78 246). The VPI Social and Enterprising scales usually were sig- nificantly positively correlated with NEO-PI factor and facet scales for Extraversion for the male subsample. Correlations for women were smaller and usually nonsignificant. No cor- relation exceeded .23 in size. The VPI Investigative and Artistic scales were positively correlated with the NEO-PI Openness factor and most of the associated facet scores. The Artistic scale had a correlation above .40 with Aesthetics (a facet of Openness) for both men and women. Correlations of Openness facets with the In- vestigative scale, although generally positive, were always .28 or lower. NEO-PI Agreeableness had no correlation as large as .20 with any VPI scale. NEO-PI Conscientiousness had signifi- cant positive correlations (.17 for women and .25 for men) with the VPI Conventional scale. Correlations from the present investigation and from other studies are assembled in Table 4. This table is or- ganized to show correlations of Holland scales with scales from the NEO-PI, the Hogan Personality Inventory (Hogan, 1986), the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey (GZTS; Guilford & Zimmerman, 1948), the = 479) and two were significant for women (n = California Psychological Inventory (CPI; Gough, 1957), and the 16PF (Cattell, Eber, & Tatsuoka, 1970) that are assumed to be markers for each of the five personality factors. The correlations shown in Table 4 may be interpreted as follows: Scales presumed to be related to the Extraversion factor (I) tended to have positive correlations with the VPI Social and Enterprising scales. Scales presumed to be mark- ers for Likability (II) usually had small correlations with the VPI theoretical personality scales. Scales presumed to be markers for Control (III) usually had moderate positive cor- relations with VPI Conventional scores, although the CPI Socialization and Self-Control scales did not. Markers for Neuroticism (IV) were usually negatively correlated with all of the VPI theoretical personality scales. Markers for Intel- lectance (V) were often correlated with the VPI Investigative and Artistic scales. The 16PF Intelligence score was not cor- related with Investigative or Artistic scores in the sample of National Merit Scholarship finalists, probably because of an insufficient ceiling in the Intelligence scale for this sample. The CPI Achievement via Independence and the GZTS Thoughtfulness scales diverged from other markers for In-
  • 4. PERSONALITY AND INTERESTS 521 Table 2 Correlations Between NEO Personality Inventory Scales and Vocational Preference Inventory Scales: Men NEO Personality Inventory scale and facet scale Vocational Preference Inventory Scale Realistic 05 02 00 -03 04 11 07 10 10 -03 -03 02 01 -04 -05 -06 -11 -17 -07 -06 03 -08 -09 Investigative 10 07 01 08 08 08 11 16 12 -13 -08 -11 -09 -06 -08 -15 25 00 23 06 12 23 10 Artistic 08 04 03 04 02 05 13 06 -01 04 07 01 03 00 03 03 34 16 45 16 11 18 06 Social 19 19 12 16 09 02 16 14 14 -06 03 -13 01 -05 -05 -08 14 -06 21 13 00 10 04 Enterprising 23 16 19 25 11 07 12 06 15 -06 00 -04 -06 -08 -04 -06 07 -03 12 12 -03 06 02 Conventional 17 14 16 15 10 03 09 13 25 -12 00 -14 -06 -12 -10 -10 -02 -15 04 07 -04 04 -04 I. II. Ill Extraversion Warmth Gregariousness Assertiveness Activity Excitement seeking Positive emotions Agreeableness Conscientiousness IV. Neuroticism Anxiety Hostility Depression Self-consciousness Impulsiveness Vulnerability Openness Fantasy Aesthetics Feelings Actions Ideas Values V. Note. N = 479. Decimal points are omitted. Correlations of .09 or larger in absolute value are significant at the p < .05 level. Table 3 Correlations Between NEO Personality Inventory Scales and Vocational Preference Inventory Scales: Women NEO PersonalityInventory scale and facet scale I. Extraversion Warmth Gregariousness Assertiveness Activity Excitement seeking Positive emotions II. Agreeableness III. Conscientiousness IV. Neuroticism Anxiety Hostility Depression Self-consciousness Impulsiveness Vulnerability V. Openness Fantasy Aesthetics Feelings Actions Ideas Values Realistic -02 -02 01 03 -06 -02 -04 03 11 -12 -14 -05 -03 -10 -09 -12 16 10 12 -03 12 20 08 Investigative -06 -06 -08 02 -02 -02 -06 -04 11 -10 -09 -06 -09 -07 -09 -08 25 18 26 05 08 28 04 Vocational Preference Inventory Artistic -09 -07 -01 00 -10 -13 -07 -07 06 -08 -05 -06 -06 -02 -08 -05 22 16 42 06 10 17 -10 Social 11 19 10 08 -05 02 10 05 00 -15 -05 -16 -12 -13 -06 -17 18 05 13 09 16 17 08 Scale Enterprising 02 02 10 09 -14 01 -06 -10 07 -12 -10 -05 -13 -14 -06 -08 03 06 09 -03 -03 13 -13 Conventional -04 02 05 01 -15 -04 -08 -02 17 -13 -10 -07 -07 -14 -15 -08 -13 -11 -10 -13 -06 03 -12 Note. N = 246. Decimal points are omitted. Correlations of .13 or larger in absolute value are significant at the p < .05 level.
  • 5. 522 G. GOTTFREDSON, E. JONES, AND J. HOLLAND Table 4 Correlations Between the Theoretical Scales of the Vocational Preference Inventory and Measures of Five Robust Dimensions of Personality From Different Inventories Personality dimension and scale Sample Instru- ment N R I Dimension I (Extraversion) NEO-PI Extraversion3 NEO-PI Extroversion" NEO-PI Extraversion0 Ambition (HPI) Sociability (HPI) Social Activity (GZTS) Sociability (CPI) Dimension II (Likability) NEO-PI Agreeablenessa NEO-PI Agreeablenessc Likability (HPI) Cortertia (Controlled, 16PF) Femininity (CPI) Dimension III (Control) NEO-PI Conscientiousness" NEO-PI Conscientiousness0 Prudence (HPI) Super Ego Strength (Conscientious, 16PF) Restraint (GZTS) Socialization (CPI) Self-Control (CPI) Dimension IV (Neuroticism) NEO-PI Neuroticisma NEO-PI Neuroticismb NEO-PI Neuroticismc Low Adjustment (HPI) Anxiety (16PF) Low Objectivity (GZTS) Low Well Being (CPI) Dimension V (Intellectance) NEO-PI Openness3 NEO-PI Openness" NEO-PI Opennessc Intellectance (HPI) Intelligence (16PF) Exvia (Radicalism, 16PF) Thoughtfulness (GZTS) Achievement via Independence (CPI) Intellectual Efficiency (CPI) Psychological Mindedness (CPI) Male Navy recruits Female Navy recruits Adult men Adult women Missouri adults Navy enlisted personnel Navy enlisted personnel Sales job applicants College students Male Navy recruits Female Navy recruits Missouri adults Navy enlisted personnel Male National Merit Scholarship finalists Female National Merit Scholarship finalists College students Male Navy recruits Female Navy recruits Missouri adults Navy enlisted personnel Male National Merit Scholarship finalists Female National Merit Scholarship finalists Sales job applicants College students College students Male Navy recruits Female Navy recruits Adult men Adult women Missouri adults Navy enlisted personnel Male National Merit Scholarship finalists Female National Merit Scholarship finalists Sales job applicants College students Male Navy recruits Female Navy recruits Adult men Adult women Missouri adults Navy enlisted personnel Male National Merit Scholarship finalists Female National Merit Scholarship finalists Male National Merit Scholarship finalists Female National Merit Scholarship finalists Sales job applicants College students College students College students VPI VPI SDS SDS SDS SDS SDS VPI VPI VPI VPI SDS SDS VPI VPI VPI VPI VPI SDS SDS VPI VPI VPI VPI VPI VPI VPI SDS SDS SDS SDS VPI VPI VPI VPI VPI VPI SDS SDS SDS SDS VPI VPI VPI VPI VPI VPI VPI VPI 479 246 2)7 144 104 167 167 200 188 479 246 104 167 783 394 188 479 246 104 167 783 394 200 188 188 479 246 217 144 104 167 783 394 200 188 479 246 217 144 104 167 783 394 783 394 200 188 188 188 05 -02 14 05 04 13 05 -08 00 10 03 -29 10 09 12 -16 10 11 03 -21 06 16 -13 19 08 -03 -12 -08 09 -01 -18 -02 12 20 -08 -11 16 12 17 24 03 -11 04 08 -01 02 02 05 -08 10 -06 00 14 12 15 09 -02 14 16 -04 -12 15 12 10 -10 12 11 03 -02 04 09 05 10 00 -13 -10 -13 -05 -14 -04 22 12 -09 -14 25 25 33 40 36 55 -06 -02 20 19 09 01 19 20 08 -09 18 33 01 19 19 13 08 06 -07 10 30 -02 10 12 -01 06 -02 02 -11 -04 -09 -20 -23 04 -08 16 03 -01 07 08 -10 09 06 34 22 49 53 52 36 04 -03 05 08 10 08 09 -03 19 11 50 43 26 28 34 20 19 14 05 23 39 -07 01 11 14 00 11 19 11 04 -03 05 10 -06 -15 -09 -17 03 -17 -30 -30 -05 -17 14 18 17 28 24 28 -02 -10 -14 -22 19 10 10 00 23 02 65 51 38 49 34 48 26 06 -10 -04 30 -11 -14 -09 15 07 24 09 09 01 -09 -02 -08 -06 -12 -04 -08 -07 -03 -29 -27 -06 -05 07 03 16 23 09 32 -10 -02 -18 -05 -07 -13 00 -08 17 -04 15 -10 12 34 09 11 -05 13 -02 05 13 -08 -01 -07 25 17 34 25 18 17 29 00 -03 -12 -13 05 02 02 -05 -14 -15 01 15 -02 -13 00 -15 -26 35 -07 -02 -08 -16 18 -17 -17 -10 Note. Decimal points are omitted. R = Realistic; I = Investigative; A = Artistic; S = Social; E = Enterprising; C = Conventional. NEO-PI = NEO Personality Inventory. VPI = Vocational Preference Inventory. SDS = Self-Directed Search. HPI = Hogan (1986) Personality Inventory. 16PF = Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire correlations reported by Holland (1978). GZTS = Guilford- Zimmerman Temperament Survey correlations reported by Holland (1978). CPI = California Psychological Inventory correlations reported by G. I. Kelso (cited in Holland, 1978). In instances in which scale names may not be easily understood, alternative designations are also given in parentheses in the first column. a Present study. b Costa, McCrae, and Holland (1984). c Holland, Johnston, Asama, and Polys (1993).
  • 6. PERSONALITY AND INTERESTS 523 Table 5 Median Correlations Between Presumed Markers for Personality Factors and Holland Scales Personality factor I. Extraversion II. Likability HI. Control IV. Neuroticism V. Intellectance Realistic 05 09 08 -02 04 Investigative 10 10 05 -10 20 Artistic 13 10 -04 05 10 Social 26 11 10 -16 12 Enterprising 38 -09 07 -06 02 Conventional 11 -01 18 -02 -09 Note. Decimal points are omitted. tellectance; they were not much correlated with VPI Inves- tigative or Artistic scores. The correlations from Table 4 are summarized in Table 5, which displays the median correla- tions of Holland scales with scales representing each per- sonality factor. Discussion This article has pulled together data from a variety of samples and instruments to provide information on the de- gree of overlap between two approaches to organizing per- sonality information. None of the information sources is ideal. Perhaps the most diverse sample of large size—and therefore the sample that comes closest to being ideal for studying the relations between the two personality assess- ment structures—is the adult sample studied by Costa et al. (1984). For that sample, however, information was reported only for three of the five personality factors. Other samples are limited in one way or another, andjudgment was involved in selecting markers from a variety of instruments for the five-factor system. Despite these limitations, the results imply that the per- sonality variables represented by the five factors are related to Holland's six personality dimensions. Thus, despite de- cades of separate development, vocational interests or pref- erences and personality as assessed by variables subsumed by the five-factor model are related. In short, we second and extend the conclusion of Costa et al.'s (1984) earlier inves- tigation. Extraversion (I) is related to social and enterprising interests. Intellectance (V) is related to investigative and ar- tistic interests, and Control (III) is related to conventional interests. Neuroticism (IV) has small negative correlations with all six Holland interest dimensions (see also Gottfredson & Jones, 1993). Nevertheless, the correlations tend to be small to modest in size, with the exception of the correlations between some markers for Intellectance (V) and Artistic and Inves- tigative interests. Equally important, the sizes of correla- tions representing the same factors estimated using differ- ent scales for different samples are extremely variable. For example, the correlation in Table 4 of VPI and SDS Artis- tic scales with the alternative markers for Intellectance (V) range from -.03 to .53 for different samples. Therefore, neither the canonical correlations of Table 1 nor the me- dian correlations of Table 5 should be regarded as defini- tive. There is still a need for research with large diverse samples using scales developed specifically to represent the five robust personality factors (e.g., Goldberg, 1992) and scales measuring Holland's dimensions. Our results also suggest that the important Neuroticism (IV), Likability (II), and Control (III) domains are not well represented in Holland's interest dimensions. Because Neuroticism, Likability, and Control are probably all rel- evant to core problems in vocational psychology—work adjustment, job satisfaction, integrity, and interpersonal re- lations in the workplace—supplementing interest assess- ments with assessments of these three factors or with more comprehensive assessments of all five robust personality factors may be useful in counseling and organizational ap- plications. 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