Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Golle, Jessika
• Rose, Norman
• Göllner, Richard
• Spengler, Marion
• Stoll, Gundula
• Hübner, Nicolas
• Rieger, Sven
• Trautwein, Ulrich
• Lüdtke, Oliver
• Roberts, Brent W
• Nagengast, Benjamin

Titel

School or Work? The Choice may change your Personality

Ist Teil von

• Psychological science, 2019, Vol.30 (1), p.32-42

Ort / Verlag

Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• According to the social-investment principle, entering new environments is associated with new social roles that influence people’s behaviors. In this study, [the authors] examined whether young adults’ personality development is differentially related to their choice of either an academic or a vocational pathway (i.e., entering an academic-track school or beginning vocational training). The personality constructs of interest were Big Five personality traits and vocational-interest orientations. [The authors] used a longitudinal study design and propensity-score matching to create comparable groups before they entered one of the pathways and then tested the differences between these groups 6 years later. [The authors] expected the vocational pathway to reinforce more mature behavior and curtail investigative interest. Results indicated that choosing the vocational compared with the academic pathway was associated with higher conscientiousness and less interest in investigative, social, and enterprising activities. (Orig.).