Christopher D Nye
Biographic Data
| ID | 4232249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher D Nye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher D |
| FAMILY NAME | Nye |
| SIGNATURE | NYE C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2359-8514 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The predictive validity of vocational interests for life outcomes across adulthood
(e.g., civic engagement, cultural participation) outcomes assessed 11 years later. Across adulthood (ages 25-67 at interest assessment), interests significantly contributed to all 12 outcomes, demonstrating that interests are predictive of life outcomes after adolescence and young adulthood. Age-moderation analyses using local structural equation modeling and age-group-specific analyses indicated that many interest-outcome links remained stable t…
From Personality Traits to Personality Dynamics: New Approaches to Personality Research in Organizations
Interests of the future: An integrative review and research agenda for an automated world of work
Can everyone get interesting jobs? Estimating interest fit across gender, ethnicity, and education
Although research and policy efforts have attempted to “even the hiring playing field” and progress equal opportunities, systemic employment patterns based on gender and ethnicity remain prevalent. An unexplored avenue of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts is the degree to which all people can obtain jobs that fit their interests. The present study used a large, diverse sample of over 250,000 American employees to estimate the average vocat…
Improving Graduate-School Admissions by Expanding Rather Than Eliminating Predictors
The article by Woo et al. (this issue) reviews the existing research on graduate-school admissions measures. The goal of this commentary is to expand on their review and suggest several ways of supplementing the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) to both increase the predictive validity of admissions decisions and improve the diversity of a graduate program. We rely on several decades of research to suggest assessing both conscientiousness and voc…
The Five-Factor Career Adapt-Abilities Scale’s Predictive and Incremental Validity With Work-Related and Life Outcomes
Career adaptability, often measured using the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS), has been conceptualized as consisting of four factors (Concern, Control, Curiosity, and Confidence). However, recent research has produced evidence in support of the inclusion of a fifth factor, Cooperation. The following pair of studies intends to extend the aforementioned work, to examine how the CAAS-5 predicts a number of work and life-relevant outcomes. Result…
Events-Affect-Personality: A Daily Diary Investigation of the Mediating Effects of Affect on the Events-Personality Relationship
Our 10-day diary investigation anchored in dynamic personality theories, such as Whole Trait Theory examined (a) whether within-person variability in two broad personality traits Extraversion and Neuroticism is consistently predicted by daily events, (b) whether positive and negative affect, respectively partly mediate this relationship and (c) the lagged relationships between events, and next day variations in affect and personality. Results rev…
Critically evaluating and advancing research and statistical methods in vocational behavior research: Introduction to the 2020 special issue on research methodology
The effects of vocational interests on motivation, satisfaction, and academic performance: Test of a mediated model
Assessing Interests in the Twenty-First-Century Workforce: Building on a Century of Interest Measurement
Recent research has re-emphasized the importance of vocational interests for understanding workplace attitudes and behavior. As a result, there is a renewed interest in the assessment of vocational interests in organizations. Numerous interest assessments have been developed over the past century, and they are now administered to millions of people throughout the world. Nevertheless, there is still work to be done, particularly as interest assess…
Are work activities related to interest change over time? A 22-year longitudinal study
Research has shown that vocational interests are important predictors of a number of life outcomes. Therefore, understanding individuals' vocational interests can also help to explain and predict their attitudes, behavior, and motives. The goal of the present study was to examine changes in vocational interests over time and explore whether these changes could be partially explained by employees' interactions with their work environments. We star…
Vocational Interests in the Workplace: Rethinking Behavior at Work
Development and validation of the General Risk Propensity Scale (GRiPS)
Despite the widespread interest in understanding and identifying risk takers by psychologists, clinicians, and economists, the risk literature currently lacks consensus regarding the nature of risk taking and its measurement. Existing measures of risk taking are predominantly domain‐specific despite emerging support for risk taking as a domain‐general disposition. In the present paper, we examine the nature of risk taking as a domain‐general pers…
Personality Trait Differences Between Young and Middle‐Aged Adults: Measurement Artifacts or Actual Trends
A growing body of research demonstrates that older individuals tend to score differently on personality measures than younger adults. However, recent research using item response theory (IRT) has questioned these findings, suggesting that apparent age differences in personality traits merely reflect artifacts of the response process rather than true differences in the latent constructs. Conversely, other studies have found the opposite—age differ…
Structure of the Dospert: Is There Evidence for a General Risk Factor
The Domain‐specific Risk‐taking scale was designed to assess risk taking in specific domains. This approach is unconventional in personality assessment but reflects conventional wisdom in the decision community that cross‐situational consistency in risk taking is more myth than reality. We applied bifactor analysis to a large sample ( n = 921) of responses to the Domain‐specific Risk Taking. Results showed that, in addition to domain‐specific fac…
Vocational Interests and Performance: A Quantitative Summary of Over 60 Years of Research
Despite early claims that vocational interests could be used to distinguish successful workers and superior students from their peers, interest measures are generally ignored in the employee selection literature. Nevertheless, theoretical descriptions of vocational interests from vocational and educational psychology have proposed that interest constructs should be related to performance and persistence in work and academic settings. Moreover, on…
Identification and measurement of a more comprehensive set of person-descriptive trait markers from the English lexicon
Testing the measurement equivalence of personality adjective items across cultures
Development and validation of the General Risk Propensity Scale (GRiPS)
Despite the widespread interest in understanding and identifying risk takers by psychologists, clinicians, and economists, the risk literature currently lacks consensus regarding the nature of risk taking and its measurement. Existing measures of risk taking are predominantly domain‐specific despite emerging support for risk taking as a domain‐general disposition. In the present paper, we examine the nature of risk taking as a domain‐general pers…
Structure of the Dospert: Is There Evidence for a General Risk Factor
The Domain‐specific Risk‐taking scale was designed to assess risk taking in specific domains. This approach is unconventional in personality assessment but reflects conventional wisdom in the decision community that cross‐situational consistency in risk taking is more myth than reality. We applied bifactor analysis to a large sample ( n = 921) of responses to the Domain‐specific Risk Taking. Results showed that, in addition to domain‐specific fac…
Identification and measurement of a more comprehensive set of person-descriptive trait markers from the English lexicon
Testing the measurement equivalence of personality adjective items across cultures
Testing the measurement equivalence of personality adjective items across cultures
Identification and measurement of a more comprehensive set of person-descriptive trait markers from the English lexicon
Vocational Interests and Performance: A Quantitative Summary of Over 60 Years of Research
Despite early claims that vocational interests could be used to distinguish successful workers and superior students from their peers, interest measures are generally ignored in the employee selection literature. Nevertheless, theoretical descriptions of vocational interests from vocational and educational psychology have proposed that interest constructs should be related to performance and persistence in work and academic settings. Moreover, on…
Personality Trait Differences Between Young and Middle‐Aged Adults: Measurement Artifacts or Actual Trends
A growing body of research demonstrates that older individuals tend to score differently on personality measures than younger adults. However, recent research using item response theory (IRT) has questioned these findings, suggesting that apparent age differences in personality traits merely reflect artifacts of the response process rather than true differences in the latent constructs. Conversely, other studies have found the opposite—age differ…
Structure of the Dospert: Is There Evidence for a General Risk Factor
The Domain‐specific Risk‐taking scale was designed to assess risk taking in specific domains. This approach is unconventional in personality assessment but reflects conventional wisdom in the decision community that cross‐situational consistency in risk taking is more myth than reality. We applied bifactor analysis to a large sample ( n = 921) of responses to the Domain‐specific Risk Taking. Results showed that, in addition to domain‐specific fac…
Development and validation of the General Risk Propensity Scale (GRiPS)
Despite the widespread interest in understanding and identifying risk takers by psychologists, clinicians, and economists, the risk literature currently lacks consensus regarding the nature of risk taking and its measurement. Existing measures of risk taking are predominantly domain‐specific despite emerging support for risk taking as a domain‐general disposition. In the present paper, we examine the nature of risk taking as a domain‐general pers…
Vocational Interests in the Workplace: Rethinking Behavior at Work
Are work activities related to interest change over time? A 22-year longitudinal study
Research has shown that vocational interests are important predictors of a number of life outcomes. Therefore, understanding individuals' vocational interests can also help to explain and predict their attitudes, behavior, and motives. The goal of the present study was to examine changes in vocational interests over time and explore whether these changes could be partially explained by employees' interactions with their work environments. We star…
Critically evaluating and advancing research and statistical methods in vocational behavior research: Introduction to the 2020 special issue on research methodology
The effects of vocational interests on motivation, satisfaction, and academic performance: Test of a mediated model
Assessing Interests in the Twenty-First-Century Workforce: Building on a Century of Interest Measurement
Recent research has re-emphasized the importance of vocational interests for understanding workplace attitudes and behavior. As a result, there is a renewed interest in the assessment of vocational interests in organizations. Numerous interest assessments have been developed over the past century, and they are now administered to millions of people throughout the world. Nevertheless, there is still work to be done, particularly as interest assess…
Improving Graduate-School Admissions by Expanding Rather Than Eliminating Predictors
The article by Woo et al. (this issue) reviews the existing research on graduate-school admissions measures. The goal of this commentary is to expand on their review and suggest several ways of supplementing the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) to both increase the predictive validity of admissions decisions and improve the diversity of a graduate program. We rely on several decades of research to suggest assessing both conscientiousness and voc…
The Five-Factor Career Adapt-Abilities Scale’s Predictive and Incremental Validity With Work-Related and Life Outcomes
Career adaptability, often measured using the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS), has been conceptualized as consisting of four factors (Concern, Control, Curiosity, and Confidence). However, recent research has produced evidence in support of the inclusion of a fifth factor, Cooperation. The following pair of studies intends to extend the aforementioned work, to examine how the CAAS-5 predicts a number of work and life-relevant outcomes. Result…
Events-Affect-Personality: A Daily Diary Investigation of the Mediating Effects of Affect on the Events-Personality Relationship
Our 10-day diary investigation anchored in dynamic personality theories, such as Whole Trait Theory examined (a) whether within-person variability in two broad personality traits Extraversion and Neuroticism is consistently predicted by daily events, (b) whether positive and negative affect, respectively partly mediate this relationship and (c) the lagged relationships between events, and next day variations in affect and personality. Results rev…
Interests of the future: An integrative review and research agenda for an automated world of work
Can everyone get interesting jobs? Estimating interest fit across gender, ethnicity, and education
Although research and policy efforts have attempted to “even the hiring playing field” and progress equal opportunities, systemic employment patterns based on gender and ethnicity remain prevalent. An unexplored avenue of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts is the degree to which all people can obtain jobs that fit their interests. The present study used a large, diverse sample of over 250,000 American employees to estimate the average vocat…
From Personality Traits to Personality Dynamics: New Approaches to Personality Research in Organizations
The predictive validity of vocational interests for life outcomes across adulthood
(e.g., civic engagement, cultural participation) outcomes assessed 11 years later. Across adulthood (ages 25-67 at interest assessment), interests significantly contributed to all 12 outcomes, demonstrating that interests are predictive of life outcomes after adolescence and young adulthood. Age-moderation analyses using local structural equation modeling and age-group-specific analyses indicated that many interest-outcome links remained stable t…
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Personality (9 works) · Vocational education (9 works) · Big Five personality traits (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Personality Traits and Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Applied Psychology (5 works) · Career Development and Diversity (5 works)