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Lecture 9 - Vocational Interests Flashcards

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What are two factors that might influence career choices?

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  • Developmental experiences

- Individual differences

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How might developmental experiences influence career choice?

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Young children aspire to be in a gender stereotypic profession.

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What did Su (2009) find out about gender differences and eventual job selection?

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There is something larger than just gender which seems to determine job selection.

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What does P-EF stand for?

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Person-Environment Fit.

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What does P-EF refer to?

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The increased job satisfaction and performance when persona attributes combine well with work environment.

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What are Holland’s 6 personality types?

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  • Realistic
  • Investigative
  • Artistic
  • Social
  • Enterprising
  • Conventional
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What are 4 features of Realistic ‘Do-er’ personality types?

Likes, Values, Avoids, Sees

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  • Likes to work with animals, tools or machines
  • Values practical things you can see, touch or use.
  • Avoids social activities
  • Sees self as practical, mechanical and realistic.
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What are 3 features of investigative ‘Thinker’ personality types?
(Likes, avoids, sees)

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  • Likes to study and solve maths or science problems
  • Avoids leading, selling and persuading people
  • Sees self as precise, scientific and intellectual.
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What are 3 features of artistic ‘creator’ personality types?

Likes, avoids, sees

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  • Likes to ‘do’ and has good artistic abilities in creative activities.
  • Avoids highly ordered or repetitive activities
  • Sees self as expressive, original and independent.
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What are 4 features of social ‘helper’ personality types?

Likes, avoids, values, sees

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  • Likes helping people, e.g. teaching, nursing, providing information
  • Avoids using machines, tools or animals to achieve a goal.
  • Values solving social problems
  • Sees self as helpful, friendly and trustworthy.
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What are 4 features of enterprising ‘persuader’ personality types?
(Likes, avoids, values, sees)

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  • Likes to lead and persuade people, and sell things and ideas.
  • Avoids activities that require careful observation and scientific, analytical thinking.
  • Values success in politics, leadership or business
  • Sees self as energetic, ambitious and sociable.
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What are 4 features of conventional personality types?

likes, avoids, values, sees

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  • Likes to work with numbers, records, or machines in a set and orderly way.
  • Avoids ambiguous, unstructured activities
  • Values success in business
  • Sees self as orderly and good at following a set plan.
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Does Holland’s model offer anything more than the Big 5 traits in predicting career specialism?

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Yes. The Big 5 and vocational personality types are correlated, but not so much that they are the same construct.

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What did Low et al., (2005) find about the variability of vocational interests across the lifespan?

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Vocational interests are relatively stable across the lifespan.

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What is the most widely used and researched theoretical P-EF model?

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Holland’s vocational personality types.

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What are Holland’s 6 vocational personality types also referred to as?

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RIASEC or Holland’s codes.

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What are vocational interests?

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Preferences for certain activities - likes and dislikes, what you enjoy doing.

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What is the main assumption of Holland’s vocational personality types?

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Career decisions that people make satisfy their preferred personal orientations, and these orientations are influenced by their vocational interests.

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Which of Holland’s personality types are typically male stereotyped according to Wood & Hampson (2010)?

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Realistic, Investigative and Enterprising

20
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Which of Holland’s personality types are typically female stereotyped according to Wood & Hampson (2010)?

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Conventional, artistic and social

21
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According to Wicherts (2010), which demonstrates the potential effects of vocational personality types on interests, participants with which types matched with which areas of interest in psychology?

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S - Developmental, Clinical
E - Work, Organisational
I - Psychological methods, Psychonomics

22
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Which groups of participants in Stoll et al., 2016) were more/less likely to be in full time employment 10 years after school?

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More likely to be employed full time:

  • Realistic
  • Enterprising

Less likely to be employed full time:

  • Females
  • Artistic
  • Social
23
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Which groups of participants in Stoll et al., (2016) were more/less likely to be unemployed 10 years after leaving school?

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More likely:

  • Artistic
  • Low grades

Less likely:

  • Agreeable
  • Conscientious
24
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Which groups of participants in Stoll et al., (2016) were likely to have higher/lower gross incomes 10 years after leaving school?

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Greater gross income:
\+ Higher grades
\+ Extraversion
\+ Realistic
\+ Full time employment

Lower gross income:
- Artistic

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What was Prediger’s 3 factor model?

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A representation of Holland’s 6 vocational personality types, with one general factor and two dimensional factors - people vs things and data vs ideas.

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How useful was Prediger’s 3 factor model?

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General factor was supported, but overall did not explain more than Holland’s original 6 types.

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What are limitations of Holland’s theory/approach?

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  • Deems that people can be sorted into types, with no flexibility between them.
  • Vocational interests predict job performance, but not job satisfaction
  • Doesn’t explain where the vocational interests come from.
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What does Gottfredson hypothesise about vocational interests?

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4 different reasons/development points for career choice:

  • cognitive growth: age-related growth in cognitive ability
  • self-creation: increasingly self-directed development of self (social valuation and self-insight)
  • circumscription: progressive elimination of least favored vocational alternatives.
  • compromise: accommodation to constraints on implementing most favored alternatives.
29
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What is trait complex theory?

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A differential theory which integrates differences constructs (abilities, personality and interests) to better understand and predict outcomes.

30
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What does VPI stand for?

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Vocational Preference Inventory

31
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What is the VPI for?

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Vocational guidance and personnel selection

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