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Interest Profile Elevation, Big Five Personality Traits, and Secondary Constructs on the Self-Directed Search

A Replication and Extension

Emily E. Bullock

University of Southern Mississippi, Emily.Bullock{at}usm.edu

Robert C. Reardon

Florida State University

The study used the Self-Directed Search (SDS) and the NEO-FFI to explore profile elevation, four secondary constructs, and the Big Five personality factors in a sample of college students in a career course. Regression model results showed that openness, conscientiousness, differentiation high-low, differentiation Iachan, and consistency accounted for significant variance in profile elevation. A significant correlation was found between profile elevation and extroversion. A unique relationship between the two measures of differentiation and profile elevation was found. A multi-variate analysis of variance and orthogonal contrasts, using the five personality factors as dependent variables and profile elevation as the independent variable, was conducted as a partial replication of an earlier study. The findings provide potential interpretive ideas for a therapist using the SDS and suggest that profile elevation explains some aspects of a client's results not accounted for by the other secondary constructs.

Key Words: Self-Directed Search • Big Five personality factors • profile elevation • secondary constructs • career course

This version was published on August 1, 2008

Journal of Career Assessment, Vol. 16, No. 3, 326-338 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1069072708317379
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