CPSY 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Big Five Personality Traits, Mass Psychogenic Illness

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Counseling Psychology
• Course: CPSY 400
• Professor: Yuye Zhang

Document Summary

Vocations as a source of identity: reciprocal relations between big five personality traits and riasec characteristics over 15 years. Individuals often seek out, create, evoke, or are selected into experiences that are compatible and correlated with their personality. In the work domain in particular, there is now evidence showing that people are interested in and tend to gravitate toward occupational environments that at least to a certain extent fit their personality traits. The most widely used and researched model of occupational environments is contained in. Holland"s theory of vocational personalities and work environments. Holland"s person environment fit theory is best known as a theory of occupational selection that proposes that people gravitate to work (or educational) environments that match their personal characteristics (i. e. , traits and interests) It is far less widespread, however, that this theory also proposes reciprocal effects. People in enterprising work environments, for instance, acquire or are reinforced for traits such as ambition, energy, assertiveness, sociability, etc.