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

Lea C. de Hesselle et al.

Journal of Personnel Psychology2026https://doi.org/10.1027/1866-5888/a000382article
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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.

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@article{lea2026,
  title        = {{Aversive Personality and RIASEC Dimensions: Findings Across Self-Reports, Registered Jobs, and Three Countries}},
  author       = {Lea C. de Hesselle et al.},
  journal      = {Journal of Personnel Psychology},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1027/1866-5888/a000382},
}

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