TY - JOUR
T1 - Profiling Religious Fundamentalism’s Associations With Vocational Interests
AU - Warlick, Craig A.
AU - Ingram, Paul B.
AU - Multon, Karen D.
AU - Vuyk, M. Alexandra
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, © Curators of the University of Missouri 2016.
PY - 2017/6
Y1 - 2017/6
N2 - Religion is a shaping force in the world today, increasingly expressed and integral to the flow and function of the workplace. The relationship between religious identity and work function is clearly present. However, no lines of research have explored how religion explains the variations in vocational interest, despite speculation that it does so. Fundamentalist beliefs provide an opportunity to examine how career interests are related to personal values. This study examined the relationship between fundamentalism and the Artistic and Investigative Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional types, types speculated to be most dissimilar to fundamentalism, by testing the incremental importance of religious fundamentalism beyond personality traits in the shaping of vocational interests. Results suggest that, even after controlling for variation attributed to personality, religious fundamentalism is negatively related to Artistic interests yet has no relationship to Investigative interests. Issues of diversity and implications for career counselors are discussed.
AB - Religion is a shaping force in the world today, increasingly expressed and integral to the flow and function of the workplace. The relationship between religious identity and work function is clearly present. However, no lines of research have explored how religion explains the variations in vocational interest, despite speculation that it does so. Fundamentalist beliefs provide an opportunity to examine how career interests are related to personal values. This study examined the relationship between fundamentalism and the Artistic and Investigative Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional types, types speculated to be most dissimilar to fundamentalism, by testing the incremental importance of religious fundamentalism beyond personality traits in the shaping of vocational interests. Results suggest that, even after controlling for variation attributed to personality, religious fundamentalism is negatively related to Artistic interests yet has no relationship to Investigative interests. Issues of diversity and implications for career counselors are discussed.
KW - RIASEC
KW - five-factor model
KW - personality
KW - religion
KW - vocational interests
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85019219560&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0894845316647514
DO - 10.1177/0894845316647514
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85019219560
SN - 0894-8453
VL - 44
SP - 266
EP - 279
JO - Journal of Career Development
JF - Journal of Career Development
IS - 3
ER -