How our work influences who we are: Testing a theory of vocational and personality development over fifty years |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Educational Psychology and Higher Education, College of Education, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States;2. School of Linguistics, Adult & Specialist Education, University of Southern Queensland, Australia;1. Ghent University, Belgium;2. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium;3. Singapore Management University, Singapore;4. University of Münster, Germany;1. Department of Leadership and Organisational Behaviour, Norwegian Business School (BI), Nydalveien, Olso, Norway;2. Department of Psychology, University of Bath, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
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| Abstract: | This study examines the developmental influences of occupational environments on personality traits from childhood to adulthood. We test aspects of a theory of vocational and personality development, proposing that traits develop in response to work experience following corresponsive and noncorresponsive mechanisms. We describe these pathways in the context of situations of vocational gravitation and inhabitation. In a sample from the Hawaii personality and health cohort (N = 596), we examined associations of childhood and adulthood personality traits, with occupational environments profiled on the RIASEC model. Mediations tests confirmed that work influenced personality development from childhood to adulthood for Openness/Intellect. We observed multiple reactivity effects of occupation environments on adulthood traits that were not associated with corresponding selection effects. |
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| Keywords: | Personality development Personality trait change Vocational development Corresponsive mechanism Big five Holland RIASEC Person-environment fit Trait activation |
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