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Nomological Network of RIASEC Types: Interests, Personality Traits, Work Values and Life Role Salience

The aim of this study was to investigate the relations between RIASEC interest types, personality traits, work values and life roles salience. Participants were 981 students in their final year of high school in Zagreb and other Croatian cities (12th grade, 18 years old, 67.2% females). PGI-Short was used to measure RIASEC interests, HEXACO-60 was applied to measure personality traits, abbreviated version of Values Scale was used to measure work values, and short version of Salience Inventory was applied to measure salience of life roles. All applied measures showed adequate reliability and structure. The observed relations between constructs mainly confirmed theoretical expectations. The most prominent relations were found between interests and personality traits, which is particularly due to the strong importance of Openness to experience for explaining Artistic and Investigative interests and Emotionality for explaining Social interests. Work values had additional contribution for explaining interests, which was mostly expressed for Adventurous value orientation, due to its incremental validity in explaining Realistic and Conventional interests. The relations between RIASEC interest types and life role salience were weeak and mostly negligible, indicating the relative independence of these constructs.

vocational interests, RIASEC types, work values, life roles, personality traits

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