RIASEC Types and Big 5 traits as predictors of employment status, nature of employment

Results

Employability and employment status

Nature of employment

Present investigation

Hypothesis 3: Applicants will be employed in jobs congruent with their RIASEC interest profiles, pairing of individuals and jobs can be derived from the hexagonal calculus

Hypothesis 4: The FFM will demonstrate incremental validity over and above the RIASEC model in predicting the nature of employment

Hypothesis 2: The RIASEC model will be incrementally valid over FFM in predicting employment status

Hypothesis 1: Individuals with high conscientiousness, emotional stability, extraversion will be at advantage regarding employment compared to peers with lower scores on these traits

Employment status

Enrolled in new study major

Enrolled in extra year to complete dissertation

Unpaid supervised work as part of professional training

Unemployed

Employed (FT or PT)

Variance analysis - differences between employed, unemployed subjects

Evaluate, assess incremental validity of RIASEC over, above FFM in explaining dichotomous employment status criterion

Compare averaged Fischer's r to Z transformed correlations for identical, adjacent, alternate and opposite person-environment types

vocational interests did not show incremental validity over, above factors

RIASEC superior in explaining employment nature

Extraversion, conscientiousness predict employment status

Realistic, Social and Enterprising predicted by 4 of the Big 5 to limited extent except Neuroticism over and above RIASEC types

Attraction-Selection-Attrition
(ASA) theory

RIASEC (employee-driven, employment nature)

FFM (employer-driven, employability)

RIASEC

Artistic (A)

Social (S)

Investigative (I)

Enterprising (E)

Realistic (R)

Conventional (C)

Educational majors or vocations

Key assumptions

People search for environments resembling vocational personality profiles

Behavior determined by interaction between personality, environment

FFM

Agreeableness

Conscientiousness

Extraversion or Surgency

Emotional stability or neuroticism

Intellect or openness to experience

Primary, secondary order traits

AB5C

Employed individuals had higher mean scores for extraversion, conscientiousness, lower scores for Neuroticism, Openness

Employed individuals had higher Enterprising, Conventional scores

Result: NO

average unemployed higher Neuroticism (0.26 correlation), slightly higher Openness but not independent predictors

extraversion, conscientiousness only valid predictors of employment status (entry level)

Neuroticism usually correlated (uncorrected) with conscientiousness, extraversion

Agreeableness did not affect employment status, Openness only significant for Fantasy facet (more down-to-earth rather than too much fantasy, imagination)

highest positive correlation except for Investigative and Conventional (equally high correlations with adjacent types)

supports for Social, Enterprising, Artistic, Realistic

trait scores related to some RIASEC envrironments except Neuroticism

Extraversion predicts S (attract warm and sociable, favor emathic skills, introspection),E | lesser extent related to C

Openness partly explains S,E, negatively predicts R (require practicality), positively correlated to A

Agreeableness negatively predicts A,S (too warm, agreeable, soft-hearted maladaptive)

Conscientiousness partly accounts for R (require conformity), negatively related to A | correlate positively to E, C, R

S - influence rather than agreeable, friendly interactions

Result: Only for R, S, E

Include FFM traits - Enterprising predict Enterprising, Conventional person predict realistic environment

E hires extraverted, energetic, assertive, more open to new ideas and beliefs

Investigative equally correlated to Realistic environment, Conventional equally correlated to Enterprising | Conventional environment better predicted by Enterprising person scores | Investigative inversely related to S

Working in R predicted by R, I scores, negatively related to C

Investigative filled by I and R characteristics

Artistic predicted by A, negatively related to I

Social predicted by S,A, negatively related to I