Gender Differences in the Structure of Holland’s Personality Model in South Korea

Abstract

This study examined the structure of Holland’s personality model (HPM) among male and female South Korean college students using the Korean version of the Self-Directed Search (K-SDS) and investigated gender differences in the circular structure of HPM and circular plots of the K-SDS subscales (i.e., activities, competences, vocations, and self-estimates). The study outcomes were as follows: Our findings supported the validity of HPM among Korean college freshmen. However, there were gender differences in the fit between the data and the circular ordering model. Also, the differences in the realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional (RIASEC) circular plots and the magnitude of the correlations among the RIASEC types across the four subscales and gender were found. These results suggest that practitioners should cautiously interpret and communicate the results of the SDS to college students considering cultural and gender specificity. Implications and limitations of the present research are discussed.

Give Twice to Get the Same: Gender Impact on Leaders’ Orientations and Career Paths

“…Mistrust of women's abilities is overcome when the results show similar performance to men, so fears arise upstream of performance, forged in a historical and social vision that associates' women with family roles and men with work outside the home (Staneva & Wigginton, 2018). To overcome this reality, it is necessary to combine a strengthening of women's access to leadership roles, which allows showing their ability to perform these functions, with an increasingly gender-neutral cultural and school change (Lee et al, 2020). Our study shows how the appreciation of non-professional dimensions in career progression, as well as legislative changes and public programs that reinforce male intervention in parental activities, makes the family dimension increasingly important for the men.…”