Date of Award
Spring 5-16-2025
Document Type
Dissertation (799 registration)
Degree Name
Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership
Department
Graduate Studies
Committee Chair
Ximena Suarez-Sousa
Keywords
Big Five, Big Five Aspects, personality, Holland’s Codes, RIASEC, career interest
Abstract
Classroom teachers are often required to teach advisory courses that include career counseling and social emotional learning components. The author used a combination of personality and career assessments to guide students into careers that were a good fit, not only for their interests but their temperaments as well. This holistic approach to advising allowed the author to address a wide variety of personal issues (e.g., unmet needs) that students were having and help them to discover their own motivations for approaching these issues. While the study is focused on collecting information from working adults, the results of this study could provide information for teachers who are taking on coaching, advising, and counseling roles within small, rural school districts. The purpose of this positivist cross-sectional correlational research is to explore the relationships between the Big Five Aspects of personality and Holland’s Codes of career interest in working individuals in a rural Midwestern county. Multiple correlations were found between personality and career interest, personality and job satisfaction, and personality and career fit. This exploratory study will give teachers tools to incorporate career-related activities into existing lessons with little additional work, administrators strategies for identifying ideal teacher candidates for retention, and businesses the opportunities for collaboration with schools to begin early exposure to careers in the classroom.
Recommended Citation
Haberman, Mary J., "A Correlational Study of the Relationships between the Big Five Aspects of Personality and Career Interest: Practical Implications for Teachers in Guidance Counseling Roles" (2025). Dissertations, Theses, and Projects. 1059.
https://red.mnstate.edu/thesis/1059
Included in
Academic Advising Commons, Educational Leadership Commons, Educational Psychology Commons, Junior High, Intermediate, Middle School Education and Teaching Commons, Personality and Social Contexts Commons, Secondary Education Commons, Secondary Education and Teaching Commons, Vocational Education Commons