Vocational Interest Themes and Personality Traits in Relation to College Major Satisfaction of Business Students

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christen T. Logue ◽  
John W. Lounsbury ◽  
Arpana Gupta ◽  
Frederick T. L. Leong
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Business Students ◽  
College Major ◽  
Vocational Interest ◽  
Major Satisfaction

Profiling Religious Fundamentalism’s Associations With Vocational Interests

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig A. Warlick ◽  
Paul B. Ingram ◽  
Karen D. Multon ◽  
M. Alexandra Vuyk
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Work Function ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Vocational Interests ◽  
Religious Fundamentalism ◽  
Career Interests ◽  
Vocational Interest ◽  
The World ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Relationship

Religion is a shaping force in the world today, increasingly expressed and integral to the flow and function of the workplace. The relationship between religious identity and work function is clearly present. However, no lines of research have explored how religion explains the variations in vocational interest, despite speculation that it does so. Fundamentalist beliefs provide an opportunity to examine how career interests are related to personal values. This study examined the relationship between fundamentalism and the Artistic and Investigative Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional types, types speculated to be most dissimilar to fundamentalism, by testing the incremental importance of religious fundamentalism beyond personality traits in the shaping of vocational interests. Results suggest that, even after controlling for variation attributed to personality, religious fundamentalism is negatively related to Artistic interests yet has no relationship to Investigative interests. Issues of diversity and implications for career counselors are discussed.

A CROSS-CULTURAL INVESTIGATION OF PERSONALITY TRAITS AMONG ARAB AND AMERICAN BUSINESS STUDENTS

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hozik ◽  
J.W. Wright
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Business Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
American Business ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Keirsey Temperament Sorter ◽  
The University

This study identifies differences in the scores of Jordanian and American business students on the Keirsey Temperament Sorter personality test. The test was administered to 137 students at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan, and Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. The research results show that, although there are significant differences in personality traits in two of four categories, there are more similarities than differences between the traits identified by these groups of students. This indicates that the personalities and temperaments of business students in Jordan and the United States are not remarkably different.

Factors Influencing the Entrepreneurial Attitude of Taiwanese Tertiary-Level Business Students

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Fen Chen ◽  
Ming-Chuan Lai
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Stepwise Regression ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Student Attitude ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Entrepreneurial Attitude ◽  
Environmental Cognition ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Survey Questionnaires

A model of attitude toward entrepreneurship and the factors influencing this were tested with students in the business department at technological colleges and universities in Taiwan. Personality traits were adopted as the independent variable, environmental cognition as the intervening variable, and attitude toward entrepreneurship as the dependent variable. Survey questionnaires (1,085) were distributed to students of which 881 were returned, and 792 of these were valid. The responses were analyzed using stepwise regression and LISREL. Results indicated that student attitude toward entrepreneurship was affected by environmental cognition and personality traits, which indirectly affected attitude toward entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurial intentions: the role of family factors, personality traits and self-efficacy

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 303-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Farrukh ◽  
Azeem Ahmad Khan ◽  
Muhammad Shahid Khan ◽  
Sara Ravan Ramzani ◽  
Bakare Soladoye Akeem Soladoye
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of family background, big five personality traits and self-efficacy on entrepreneurial intentions (EIs) of business students in private universities in Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected with the help of structured questionnaires, 500 questionnaires were distributed among the students and 306 useable questionnaires were received and analyzed. Structural equation modeling was used to investigate the relationship among the study variables. SmartPLS was utilized to run the analysis. Findings The findings revealed a strong relationship between the exogenous and endogenous variables. The variance accounted by the independent variables was 74.3 percent in the EIs of the students. Family background was found to have a positive impact on the EIs of students. The findings also showed a positive relationship between self-efficacy and EIs. Consciousness, extroversion and openness to experience are positively linked with EIs while neuroticism and agreeableness did not show any relationship. Originality/value The study’s findings attract the attention of the academicians to take note of the factors examined while training the students the art of entrepreneurship. This is because this study has revealed that if these factors are not present the intention of the students to start a business venture may prove to be weak. Entrepreneurial activities are one of the biggest ways to reduce unemployment, thus, it is suggested that academicians should develop psychological plans and training to motivate the students to convert their intentions into actions.

The Relation Between Interest Congruence and College Major Satisfaction: Evidence From the Basic Interest Measures

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 628-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lili Bai ◽  
Hsin-Ya Liao
Keyword(s):  
Career Satisfaction ◽  
College Major ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
General Interest ◽  
High Point ◽  
Major Satisfaction ◽  
Person Environment Fit ◽  
Interest Level ◽  
Interest Congruence ◽  
Career Practice

The relation between the degree of interest congruence (i.e., person–environment fit in interest domain) and career satisfaction has been inconsistent and generally low across studies. Interest congruence is typically measured at the broadband general interest level, bound within Holland’s Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional (RIASEC) framework, and largely based on the match of the high-point interest codes between persons and environments. Using two cross-cultural college samples, we reexamined the congruence–satisfaction relation with a refined congruence index by using narrowband basic interest measures and considering the entire basic interest profiles. As a comparison, we used three additional congruence indices based on the entire general interest RIASEC profiles or the high-point RIASEC codes. Findings showed stronger congruence–satisfaction relations when the basic interest measure and/or complete interest profiles were used to generate interest congruence indices. Implications for research and career practice are discussed.

Relationships between Similar Scales of Two Major Interest Inventories

1973 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 635-638
Author(s):  
Riley W. Gardner
Keyword(s):  
College Major ◽  
Vocational Interest ◽  
Interest Inventories ◽  
Survey Form ◽  
Occupational Interest ◽  
Major Interest

Relationships of similar scales (occupation vs occupation and occupation vs college major) for the Strong Vocational Interest Blank and the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey, Form DD, were assessed over a 1-yr. period. Results suggest caution in the interpretation of particular scale points for such procedures and in using these procedures to supplement each other for counseling purposes.

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