Vocational Interests and Career Goals: Development and Relations to Personality and Middle Adolescence

Hirschi, Andreas (2010). Vocational Interests and Career Goals: Development and Relations to Personality and Middle Adolescence. Journal of Career Assessment, 18(3), pp. 223-238. Sage 10.1177/1069072710364789

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Cross-sectional research implies a close relation of vocation interests, goals, and traits, yet little is known about their reciprocal development over time. This longitudinal study examined development of Things/People (T/P) and Data/Ideas (D/I) vocational interests and career goals in relation to Big Five personality traits among 292 Swiss adolescents with a cross-lagged panel design with two measurement points over 1 year from seventh to eighth grade. Interests and goals were significantly related within time and showed significant interactions across time. Traits related significantly and equally to interests and goals within time and predicted their development across time except for T/P goals. Goals and interests possessed incremental validity above traits in affecting each other. Implications include the need to account for dynamic processes in the development of goals and interests and their systematic relation to traits in theory and practice.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Work and Organisational Psychology
UniBE Contributor:	Hirschi, Andreas
Subjects:	100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
ISSN:	1069-0727
Publisher:	Sage
Language:	English
Submitter:	Christine Soltermann
Date Deposited:	10 Mar 2015 16:49
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:42
Publisher DOI:	10.1177/1069072710364789
Uncontrolled Keywords:	vocational interests, career goals, career aspirations, personality, adolescent career development, developmental systems theory
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/64217