Interest Profile Elevation, Big Five Personality Traits, and Secondary Constructs on the Self-Directed Search - A Replication and Extension
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-1-2008
Department
Psychology
Abstract
The study used the Self-Directed Search (SDS) and the NEO-FFI to explore profile elevation, four secondary constructs, and the Big Five personality factors in a sample of college students in a career course. Regression model results showed that openness, conscientiousness, differentiation high-low, differentiation Iachan, and consistency accounted for significant variance in profile elevation. A significant correlation was found between profile elevation and extroversion. A unique relationship between the two measures of differentiation and profile elevation was found. A multivariate analysis of variance and orthogonal contrasts, using the five personality factors as dependent variables and profile elevation as the independent variable, was conducted as a partial replication of an earlier study. The findings provide potential interpretive ideas for a therapist using the SDS and suggest that profile elevation explains some aspects of a client's results not accounted for by the other secondary constructs.
Publication Title
Journal of Career Assessment
Volume
16
Issue
3
First Page
326
Last Page
338
Recommended Citation
Yowell, E. B.,
Reardon, R. C.
(2008). Interest Profile Elevation, Big Five Personality Traits, and Secondary Constructs on the Self-Directed Search - A Replication and Extension. Journal of Career Assessment, 16(3), 326-338.
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