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Dictionary of Vocational Psychology
Genes
Researchers in behavior genetics have reported findings suggesting a strong genetic impact on personality, interest, ability, and other variables likely to affect vocational choice and adjustment. The percentage of influence that is strictly genetic appears to increase with age, reaching approximately 80 percent of variance in important variables (e.g., personality traits and measures of ability) by age 60. However, this percentage is much lower in adolescence and young adulthood. Environmental factors--and especially nonshared factors--appear to have a major impact on the development of these traits early in life. Nonshared factors are those influences not attributable to genes that are also not share across all children in a family.
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Updated September 7, 2003
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