Holland’s classification of Personalities & Environments Orientation Personality Descriptions Environmental Descriptions Conventional Prefers structures numerical and Stimulates conventional verbal activities, subordinate activities, rewards people for roles, identifies with power and conventional values, reinforces status conscientiousness, obedience, control, efficiency, & orderliness Artistic Antisocial, avoids problems that Stimulates artistic activities, are highly structured or rewards people for artistic physically intensive, need for values, reinforces emotionality, individualistic expression independence, nonconformity, & originality Realistic Materialistic, unsociable, Stimulates realistic activities, aggressive, insightful, practical, rewards others for conventional persistent values, reinforces conformity, shyness, & pragmatic Investigative Task oriented, social, prefers to Stimulates investigative think rather than act out, needs activities, rewards others for to understand investigative values, reinforces precision, introspective, & pessimistic Enterprising Verbal skills for dominating Stimulates enterprising activities, others; verbally aggressive rewards people for enterprising values, reinforces ambition, confident in self, & argumentative Socal Sociable, responsible, feminine, Stimulates social activities, needs attention, avoids rewards people for social values intellectual problem solving, and reinforces friendliness, dependent responsibility. Tact, kindness, & insight
Orientation Personality Descriptions Environmental Descriptions Conventional Prefers structures numerical and verbal activities, subordinate roles, identifies with power and status Stimulates conventional activities, rewards people for conventional values, reinforces conscientiousness, obedience, control, efficiency, & orderliness Artistic Antisocial, avoids problems that are highly structured or physically intensive, need for individualistic expression Stimulates artistic activities, rewards people for artistic values, reinforces emotionality, independence, nonconformity, & originality Realistic Materialistic, unsociable, aggressive, insightful, practical, persistent Stimulates realistic activities, rewards others for conventional values, reinforces conformity, shyness, & pragmatic Investigative Task oriented, social, prefers to think rather than act out, needs to understand Stimulates investigative activities, rewards others for investigative values, reinforces precision, introspective, & pessimistic Enterprising Verbal skills for dominating others; verbally aggressive Stimulates enterprising activities, rewards people for enterprising values, reinforces ambition, confident in self, & argumentative Socal Sociable, responsible, feminine, needs attention, avoids intellectual problem solving, dependent Stimulates social activities, rewards people for social values and reinforces friendliness, responsibility. Tact, kindness, & insight Holland’s classification of Personalities & Environments
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