Personal style scales of the Strong Interest Inventory: Linking personality and interests

The relations between the personal style scales on the Strong Interest Inventory and the Big Five factors of personality as measured by marker-scales in the Adjective Check List (ACL) were evaluated separately by gender. It was predicted that Extraversion would correlate positively with all four personal style scales and most strongly with Leadership Style. Agreeableness was expected to relate to Work Style, and both Conscientiousness and Openness were expected to relate to Learning Environment. participants consisted of two separate groups, a validation group of 740 undergraduates and a cross-validation group of 321 undergraduates for the purpose of replication and validity generalization. Evidence for strong relations between the personal style scales and the Big Five factors was observed, the hypotheses were generally supported, and there was no evidence of reliable gender differences in these relations. (C) 2000 Academic Press.