Comparative research for personality types of Guilan University physical exercise and counseling students based on Holland theory

Introduction and purpose: Employment is considered to be as a highly significant issue, because individual's life and society continuity depends on it. To engage people into appropriate occupations, it is necessary to study them individually and to discuss their features. A work and professional consultant should inform the individual on the occupational necessities of the country and make him/her know his/her own personal properties in order to make better decision for a job. It is obvious that a group of people are not suitable to be qualified for some professions, because any job needs its own personal pattern. This case is true with being qualified for consultation job and also physical exercise. Hence, current study has been designed and performed aiming to discuss the differences among personal types of physical exercise and consultation students based on Holland theory. Method: Research demography includes Guilan University physical exercise and consultation students in the year 1389-90. Random classification sampling method was used for sampling from above demography, and sample group consists of 60 students studying in both consultation and physical exercise majors who answered to Holland occupational preference test questionnaire. The results from performing a scientific descriptive and incidental method have been explained through raw analysis helped by T-Student concluding formula. Findings: results have shown that students from two groups attained highest score in the social and bravery types respectively. Of course, there is a meaningful difference among the average score of social type in two student groups and average score of social type has been more in the consultation students. Moreover, average score of art type in the consultation students hasbeen meaningfully more than physical exercise students'. But there is no meaningful difference among the average score of 4 other types i.e. conventional, real, research and intellectual (bravery) types. Discussion: results obtained in this discussion acknowledge the personal features raised by Holland theory for successful people in the physical exercise and consultation majors. Thus, it seems that governments can use this test as a tool to help engaging appropriate individuals for various majors and occupations in order to prevent from wasting both country capital and individuals time.