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Personality and vocational interests: Connections between two fundamental individual-differences construct domains
Bart Wille1, Sofie Dupré1, Filip De Fruyt1
1Ghent University, Belgium.
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Personality traits and vocational interests are prominent constructs in the broader personality system and they have proven central to understanding how people navigate a successful career. This review investigates where these two construct domains connect by integrating previous work on their bivariate relationships with contemporary research that has reconceptualized vocational interests in light of recent economic changes. Our review considers both Five-Factor Model (FFM) and HEXACO traits in relation to three interest models which describe 22 vocational interests in total. Various patterns of trait-interest associations are identified, shedding light on where personality intersects with an expanded and partly renewed set of vocational interests. Future directions aimed at clarifying the complex link between personality traits and vocational interests are discussed.
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