Aversive Personality and RIASEC Dimensions: Findings Across Self-Reports, Registered Jobs, and Three Countries

Lea C. de Hesselle; Johanna Einsiedler; Ole Teutloff; Lau Lilleholt; Benjamin E. Hilbig; Morten Moshagen; Ingo Zettler

doi:10.1027/1866-5888/a000382

Aversive Personality and RIASEC Dimensions: Findings Across Self-Reports, Registered Jobs, and Three Countries

Lea C. de Hesselle^*, Johanna Einsiedler, Ole Teutloff, Lau Lilleholt, Benjamin E. Hilbig, Morten Moshagen, Ingo Zettler

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Abstract

Research on vocational interests has increasingly explored the role of aversive (“dark”) personality traits. Focusing on the core of all aversive traits, we herein link the D-Factor of Personality to Holland’s RIASEC dimensions (realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional). Across six samples (total N = 8,409), both self-reports and objective occupational ratings consistently indicated negative relations between D and both social (−.50 ≤ r ≤ −.21) and artistic interests (−.31 ≤ r ≤ −.12). Concerning enterprising interests, heterogenous results were observed, with associations being positive in German samples, nonsignificant in US-based samples, and mixed in Danish occupational data. As expected, realistic, investigative, and conventional interests showed no consistent, substantial relations to D across samples.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Journal of Personnel Psychology
Vol/bind	25
Udgave nummer	2
Sider (fra-til)	81-92
Antal sider	12
ISSN	1866-5888
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1027/1866-5888/a000382
Status	Udgivet - 2026

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