The Roles of Personality Traits and Vocational Interests in Explaining What People Want Out of Life |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology, Universtity of Tübingen, Germany;2. Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics, University of Iceland, Iceland;3. Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, USA;4. Center for Social and Behavioral Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA;5. Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA;6. Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA;1. Universitat Ramon Llull, ESADE, Spain;2. Harvard University, United States;3. University of Virginia, United States;1. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States;2. McGill University, Montreal, Canada;1. Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, United States;2. Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Yale University, United States;3. University of Leipzig, Germany;1. University of the Free State, South Africa;2. University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa;3. Middle Tennessee State University, United States;4. Virginia Commonwealth University, United States;5. Central Arkansas VA Health Care System, United States;6. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, United States;7. Georgia State University, United States;8. Bowling Green State University, United States;1. DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Frankfurt am Main, Germany;2. Center for Research on Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk (IDeA), Frankfurt am Main, Germany;3. Institute of Psychology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany;4. Institute of Medical Psychology at the Center for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Life goals reflect people’s aspirations of what they want to become and what kind of life they want to live. In two student samples from the United States (N = 385) and Iceland (N = 1338), we used hierarchical regression and relative weights analyses to first replicate Roberts and Robins (2000) finding that Big Five personality traits predict major life goals, and then to test whether vocational interests have incremental validity in explaining major life goals over and above personality traits. Overall, vocational interests explained larger amounts of variance in major life goals than personality traits, and added incremental validity above and beyond personality traits. Expectations about specific linkages were largely confirmed across the two samples, providing implications for theory and practice. |
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| Keywords: | Vocational interests RIASEC Major life goals Personality traits Values |
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