Applying the VPI and the 16PF in a Case of Mismatched Occupations

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-11
Author(s):  
Rachel Abramson
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Occupational Interests ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
Vocational Preference

Career counsellors have long known that occupational interests are often linked with abilities. We also know that if one has the ability, but not the interest, that ability will not be used. What happens, however, when one has an interest but not the right temperament or personality? I recently had the pleasure of seeing someone for career counselling who fell in this latter category. This individual (let us call her Ms S) came to my rooms with one burning question on her lips: “What's wrong with me? Why can't I keep a job? I was in my past job for 4 weeks and the one before that for 3 weeks. How do I hang on to a job?” Ms S had a secretarial background. She had been fired from her previous positions and was concerned whether she had the capacity to continue working in this field or whether she had somehow become too slow. After obtaining some background information, I asked Ms S to complete a battery of career counselling tests. Of special interest to this case was the results from both the Vocational Preference Indicator (VPI) and the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF), which I shall discuss below.

Canonical Analysis of the Vocational Preference Inventory and the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire

1973 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. Williams ◽  
Constance M. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Zero Order ◽  
Canonical Analysis ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Preference Inventory ◽  
Vocational Preference

A canonical analysis was performed, relating the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire and the Vocational Preference Inventory. 145 male graduate students were Ss. Three significant canonical relationships were found. Most of the zero-order correlations were low; only 3 correlations (out of 176 possible correlations) were as large (positively or negatively) as .40.

scholarly journals The relationship between personality traits and vocational interests

2002 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon P. De Bruin
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Vocational Interests ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Extension Analysis

This This study examined the relationship between vocational interests and basic personality traits. The interest fields of the 19-Field-Interest Inventory were related to the second order factors of the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire by means of a factor extension analysis. The results showed that extroverts tend to be interested in fields related to social contact and the influencing of other people. Emotionally sensitive individuals tend to be interested in the arts and languages. Independent individuals tend to be interested in creative thinking. The implications of the findings for career counselling are discussed. Opsomming Hierdie studie het ondersoek ingestel na die verband tussen beroepsbelangstellings en basiese persoonlikheidstrekke. Die 19 belangstellingsvelde van die 19-Veld-belangstellings-vraelys is aan die hand van ’n faktorverlengingsontleding met die tweede orde faktore van die 16-Persoonlikheids-faktorvraelys in verband gebring. Die resultate dui daarop dat ekstroverte geneig is omin veldewat sosiale kontak en die beinvloeding vanmense behels, belang te stel. Emosioneel sensitiewe individue is geneig om in kunssinnge en taal verwante velde belang te stel. Onafhanklike individue is geneig om in kreatiewe denke belang te stel. Die implikasies van die resultate vir loopbaanvoorligting word bespreek.

scholarly journals Visual tracking via improving motion model and model updater

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 172988141875623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanli Xue ◽  
Zhiyong Feng ◽  
Chao Xu ◽  
Tong Liu ◽  
Zhaopeng Meng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Visual Tracking ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Motion Model ◽  
Salient Region Detection ◽  
Region Detection ◽  
Model Update ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

Motion model and model updater are two necessary components for online visual tracking. On the one hand, an effective motion model needs to strike the right balance between target processing, to account for the target appearance and scene analysis, and to describe stable background information. Most conventional trackers focus on one aspect out of the two and hence are not able to achieve the correct balance. On the other hand, the admirable model update needs to consider both the tracking speed and the model drift. Most tracking models are updated on every frame or fixed frames, so it cannot achieve the best performance. In this article, we solve the motion model problem by collaboratively using salient region detection and image segmentation. Particularly, the two methods are for different purposes. In the absence of prior knowledge, the former considers image attributes like color, gradient, edges, and boundaries then forms a robust object; the latter aggregates individual pixels into meaningful atomic regions by using the prior knowledge of target and background in the video sequence. Taking advantage of their complementary roles, we construct a more reasonable confidence map. For model update problems, we dynamically update the model by analyzing scene with image similarity, which not only reduces the update frequency of the model but also suppresses the model drift. Finally, we use these improved building blocks not only to do comparative tests but also to give a basic tracker, and extensive experimental results on OTB50 show that the proposed methods perform favorably against the state-of-the-art methods.

Australian Occupational Therapy Students: Attitudes towards and Knowledge about Psychiatry

1997 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Gilbert ◽  
Jenny Strong
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Occupational Therapy Students ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Students Attitudes

This study examined attitudes towards psychiatry, prior knowledge about psychiatry and trait anxiety in preclinical Australian occupational therapy students. At the time of the study, students were anticipating their first clinical placement in psychiatry. Instruments used in the study were the Attitudes Towards Psychiatry – 30 Scale (ATP-30), the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF), and a demographic data sheet looking at background information on students which asked the question: ‘When you started the occupational therapy course, did you expect to have anything to do with psychiatry?’ The results showed that, while students reported positive attitudes towards psychiatry, a high percentage of students (In particular, the trait anxious student) had not been aware that psychiatry was part of the undergraduate education in occupational therapy. These findings suggest that the trait anxious student may not be able to assimilate knowledge in a new experience, and that the profile of the occupational therapist working in mental health needs to be enhanced.

Individual Differences in Cognitive Strategy and Personality Traits as Measured by the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire

1988 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 943-954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn E. Kerr ◽  
Warren S. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Eye Movement ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Face Validity ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Lateral Eye ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
The Right

The relationship between personality and preference for use of the right or left hemisphere of the brain in cognitive processing was investigated. Lateral eye movements were recorded as 50 female and 20 male right-handed subjects considered questions requiring reflection. The questions were not obviously “verbal” or “spatial” in nature but did require differing levels of reflection. Questions requiring higher levels of reflection produced a higher rate of lateral eye movement responses. Percent right eye movement for individual subjects was then correlated with scores on the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, using both first-order factors and the second-order factor Cortertia, which has some face validity as describing the personality generally ascribed to those who produce mostly right lateral eye movements. No correlation was found between the preferred directions of eye movements and 16 PF factors, which suggests that the lateral eye movements reflect thinking and problem-solving strategies but are not associated with personality styles.

Mechanisms of Resource Curse and Economic Policy

2007 ◽  
pp. 4-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Polterovich ◽  
V. Popov ◽  
A. Tonis
Keyword(s):  
Real Exchange Rates ◽  
Resource Curse ◽  
Budget Deficits ◽  
Resource Abundance ◽  
Fuel Prices ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Resource Wealth ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
Rich Countries

This paper compares various mechanisms of resource curse leading to a potentially inefficient use of resources; it is demonstrated that each of these mechanisms is associated with market imperfections and can be "corrected" with appropriate government policies. Empirical evidence seems to suggest that resource abundant countries have on average lower budget deficits and inflation, and higher foreign exchange reserves. Besides, lower domestic fuel prices that are typical for resource rich countries have a positive effect on long-term growth even though they are associated with losses resulting from higher energy consumption. On top of that resource abundance allows to reduce income inequalities. So, on the one hand, resource wealth turns out to be conducive to growth, especially in countries with strong institutions. However, on the other hand, resource abundance leads to corruption of institutions and to overvalued real exchange rates. On balance, there is no solid evidence that resource abundant countries grow more slowly than the others, but there is evidence that they grow more slowly than could have grown with the right policies and institutions.

Challenges of Media Education Standards in Georgia

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marine Vekua
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
International Standards ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Education Standards ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

The main goal of this research is to determine whether the journalism education of the leading media schools inGeorgia is adequate to modern media market’s demands and challenges. The right answer to this main questionwas found after analyzing Georgian media market’s demands, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, differentaspects of journalism education in Georgia: the historical background, development trends, evaluation ofeducational programs and curricula designs, reflection of international standards in teaching methods, studyingand working conditions.

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