Personality and Career Decision Making

Personality has been viewed as source of person’s attitude exhibited on the job workplace over the years. In this paper, propositions have been made about different kind of personality traits having relevance with nature of job requirements. The study tried to argue that prominent feature of personality traits can be successful in aligning with the particular job requirements. Implications have been raised by giving propositions for future researchers to validate these propositions.

2011

Research on vocational behavior has made progress in identifying broad personality traits associated with career indecision; however, important questions remain unanswered about the temporal stability of relationships between broad personality traits and Career Decidedness (CD), and about the role of narrow personality traits as predictors of CD, both of which were addressed in this longitudinal field study. A total of 2,046 undergraduate students completed an online personality inventory and CD questionnaire. A subgroup (N=267) responded to a follow-up questionnaire seven months later. Results indicated, as hypothesized, that CD correlated positively with the broad (Big Five) personality traits, openness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness. However, CD did not correlate as expected with the broad trait, extraversion, and correlated significantly and inversely with the broad trait, neuroticism, only for low-achievement students. Results showed that the narrow traits of optimism and work drive correlated significantly and positively with CD, and that these narrow traits alone accounted for an additional 5.6% variance in CD above and beyond broad traits (5.8%). CD correlated positively with chronological age, as predicted. However, Career Decidedness only increased through the first three of four years of college, and contrary to predictions, showed a non-significant decline in the senior year. In an unexpected finding based only on the subgroup who completed the second set of questionnaires, the relationship of personality and CD strengthened over the 7month span of this study, yet instability within CD warrants caution. Results suggest questions for future research and implications for practice in vocational psychology.

2015

The aim of the research was to demonstrate the existence of an association between social background of the subjects, their personality and the their careers choice, assuming that there is a correlation between career choice (RIASEC type) and professional interests priority , and also that there is a significant difference between students who live in urban areas compared to those living in rural backgroud and their career choice. To achieve the present study we used a random sample consisting of 98 subjects aged between 16 and 19 years , students of class XI and XII of a batch of 56 from urban and 42 from the rural areas. The study is based on results obtained through two questionnaires, Holland Vocational Interest Inventory and the Eysenck Personality Inventory. Subjects were interviewed in the presence of an operator involved in research and in the presence of a teacher. Subjects were informed about the research prior to their consent to conduct the research.

The Counseling Psychologist, 2011

This study tests the temporal stability and the concurrent and predictive validity of the Emotional and Personality-related Career decision-making Difficulties (EPCD) model and questionnaire. Five hundred forty-three participants filled out the EPCD twice, 3 years apart. The Anxiety cluster was the most stable of the three, followed by the Self-Concept and Identity cluster, and then the Pessimistic Views cluster, which showed a significant decrease. Participants who reported having made a career decision by the second administration had lower EPCD scores at Time 1 than did those who remained undecided at Time 2. Whereas the decided group showed a decrease in the EPCD scores during the 3-year interval, the undecided group showed no significant decrease. Significant correlations were observed between the EPCD scores and low satisfaction with one's chosen occupation. Gender differences were also found: among the decided group, women had higher EPCD scores than did men; overall, women had higher EPCD scores than did men only in the clusters of Anxiety and Self-Concept and Identity.

DergiPark (Istanbul University), 2021

The purpose of this study is to determine whether young adults' personality traits (conscientiousnes, agreeableness, openness to experience, extraversion, neuroticism) and career decision-making status together predict their career adaptability total score and its sub-dimensions; concern, control, curiosity, confidence. A total of 603 university students, 341 (56.6%) female and 261 (43.3%) male, participated in the study. The data of the study were collected by using the Career Adaptability Scale, the Adjective Based Personality Test, and the Personal Information Form. Multiple Linear Regression Analysis and Pearson Correlation analysis were used to analyze the data. The findings of the study showed that young adults' career decision making status and personality traits together predicted career adaptability total score (31%) and its subdimensions (Concern; 19%, Control; 29%, Curiosity; 19%, Confidence; 26%). The findings of the study have been discussed based on the relevant literature. The limitations of the study are stated. The implications of the study results for theory, future research and practice are presented.

Psychological Applications and Trends 2019, 2019

The process of career decision-making is an important experience in the adolescent´s period often manifested by decision-making difficulties. The study analyzes the influence of trait emotional intelligence (TEI) in the process of career decision-making, especially on career decision-making difficulties, career decidedness and career decision self-efficacy (CDSE) assessed in a sample of high school students during their 2 nd career choice orientation testing. TEI as defined by Petrides (2009) and CDSE as defined by Betz et al. (1996), representing more stable personality-related variables, were studied in the context of career decision-making covering both more stable variables (emotional and personality-related aspects of career decision-making difficulties as specified by Saka, Gati & Kelly, 2008) and more developmental variables (career decidedness as defined by Lounsbury & Gibson, 2011). The study aims at the trait EI prediction level (as a personality trait) assessed by Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire-Short Form (TEIQue-SF) created by Petrides (2009) adapted to the Slovak conditions by Kaliská, Nábělková and Salbot (2015) of career decidedness and career decision self-efficacy above the career decision-making difficulties by correlation and regression analysis. Career decision-making difficulties were assessed by the Emotional and Personality Career Decision-Making Difficulties Scale (EPCD; Saka, Gati & Kelly, 2008), career decidedness was assessed by Lounsbury and Gibson´s Career Decidedness Scale (CDS, 2011), career decision self-efficacy by the Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale-Short Form (CDSES-SF, Betz et al., 1996). The research sample consisted of 322 high school students (average age: 17.7 /SD=.46/; 58.4% of females). Results proved that high trait EI is significantly positively correlated to decidedness, to career decision self-efficacy, and significantly negatively to all the factors and global level of career decision-making difficulties. Trait EI significantly predicts career difficulties over and above career decidedness and career decision self-efficacy. The results empirically support the relevance of both trait EI and career decision self-efficacy in the career decision process, with practical implications for diagnostics and intervention within career counseling, as a means to strengthen the effectiveness of the process of career decision making in career choice and in career development.

Journal of Career …, 2011

The current study investigated the Emotional and Personality-related Career decision-making Difficulties model and questionnaire (EPCD) by studying its associations with various personality measures in three samples: (a) 691 deliberating individuals who entered a career self-help website, (b) 197 students in a university preparatory program, and (c) 286 young adults from the general population. As hypothesized, higher levels of emotional and personality-related career decisionmaking difficulties, as measured by the EPCD, were associated with higher levels of neuroticism, agreeableness, perfectionism, and need for cognitive closure, and lower levels of extraversion, openness to experience, and career decision self-efficacy. In addition, higher levels of these difficulties were associated with a more external locus of control (LoC), and with being less advanced in the career decision-making process.

International Journal of Psychology and Counselling, 2014

Career indecisiveness is one of the major career decision-making problems. Research so far has demonstrated its relation to a variety of personality factors. The present study aimed to explore, for the first time, indecisiveness in Greek junior High school students and its relation to personality parameters. Emotional and Personality-related Career decision-making Difficulties (EPCD) and Core self-evaluations scale (CSEs) for the assessment of both career indecisiveness and personality variables were administered to the students. The results showed that the students high in EPCD had not made any decisions concerning further education issues, such as type of senior high school, educational orientation, and future university studies. In contrary, the students of the sample who scored high in CSEs had made decisions on the above mentioned parameters. The results have been discussed in relation to implications for counseling.

2008

Abstract This research focuses on developing a theoretical framework for analyzing the emotional and personality-related aspects of career-decision-making difficulties. The proposed model is comprised of three major clusters: pessimistic views, anxiety, and self-concept and identity. In Study 1, the Emotional and Personality Career Difficulties Scale (EPCD) was developed, refined, and used to empirically test the model with an Israeli Internet sample (N= 728).

Psychological Reports, 2009

The relationship between occupational preferences and personality traits was examined. A randomly chosen sample of 735 students (age range = 17 to 23 years; 50.5% male) in their last year of high school participated in this study.