<p>Yes. One example is that people high in Openness to New Experiences are interested in aesthetic experiences including museums and being in nature, and novel experiences as you'd expect from the name. <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1997-08808-031" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1997-08808-031</a></p>

<p>Treatment is a bit misleading here to mean 'study', because in psychology it usually means 'intervention'.</p>

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<p>Holland's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland_Codes" rel="nofollow noreferrer">RIASEC</a> is probably the most studied such personality-based model of vocational choice. Note however that's not quite Big Five based though. See <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804674-6.00025-9" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804674-6.00025-9</a> for the details. It's way too much to get into the details here, but a teaser quote:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>vocational interests are markedly
  more stable than the Big Five personality traits in adolescence and young adulthood
  (Low et al., 2005). Although the stability of both constructs increases during these
  life phases, the stability of interests becomes stronger, and vocational interests
  remain more stable than the Big Five personality traits for ages 22 to 29. From ages
  30 to 39, the stability coefficients of the Big Five and vocational interests converge.
  However, even though vocational interests tend to be remarkably stable, there is
  still room for change.</p>
  
  <p>[...]</p>
  
  <p>The approach of viewing vocational interests as personality traits is based on
  personality models (e.g., the Neo-Socioanalytic Model of Personality; Roberts &amp;
  Wood, 2006; McAdams &amp; Pals, 2006) that distinguish between personality traits
  and motivations and consider interests and personality traits to be equivalent or
  regard interests explicitly as personality characteristics (e.g., Kandler,
  Zimmermann, &amp; McAdams, 2014). By contrast, several other models of personality
  view interests as outcomes of personality traits (e.g., McCrae &amp; Costa, 2008).</p>
  
  <p>[...] Holland himself stated that vocational interests are “an important aspect of personality” (Holland, 1997, p. 8), and he defined the six interest types as “personality types” (Holland, 1997).</p>
</blockquote>

<p>See also <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2015.12.011" rel="nofollow noreferrer">a review</a> on the correlation of choice of academic major and Big Five personality (that's got some mainstream press <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/student/student-life/Studies/new-study-finds-link-between-big-five-personality-traits-and-which-subject-students-study-at-a6846996.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">coverage</a>.)</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Consistent findings across studies were that students of arts/humanities and psychology scored high on Neuroticism and Openness; students of political sc. scored high on Openness; students of economics, law, political sc., and medicine scored high on Extraversion; students of medicine, psychology, arts/humanities, and sciences scored high on Agreeableness; and students of arts/humanities scored low on Conscientiousness. [...]  For all Big Five personality traits medium effect sizes were found frequently, and for Openness even large effect sizes were found regularly. </p>
</blockquote>

<p>(Some will surely turn on the MBTI-style cliché/stereotype  generator based on that.)</p>

<p>I'm not sure if there's that level of research depth for just "hobbies and [non-professional] interests" as opposed to vocational/academic-major choice, but probably there are some papers on the less professional interests. I'm not sure there's a unifying (attempt at) theory for just any interests, but one can surely find somewhat amusing/disparate papers <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2019.101307" rel="nofollow noreferrer">like</a>:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Collectors with an investment motive tend to have above-average education and financial means. High Openness and low Agreeableness significantly characterize their personality.</p>
</blockquote>

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<p>Are there any established treatments (I'm going to leave the exact terms a little bit vague because my understanding is vague) of which hobbies and interests are most likely to be attractive to someone with XYZ score on an  OCEAN / Big 5 test?</p>

<p>TIA,</p>

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# Hobbies / interests correlated with Big 5 scores?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-10-26)

Are there any established treatments (I'm going to leave the exact terms a little bit vague because my understanding is vague) of which hobbies and interests are most likely to be attractive to someone with XYZ score on an OCEAN / Big 5 test?

TIA,

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2019-10-28. Score: 3

Yes. One example is that people high in Openness to New Experiences are interested in aesthetic experiences including museums and being in nature, and novel experiences as you'd expect from the name. <https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1997-08808-031>

Treatment is a bit misleading here to mean 'study', because in psychology it usually means 'intervention'.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2020-04-26. Score: 0

Holland's [RIASEC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland_Codes) is probably the most studied such personality-based model of vocational choice. Note however that's not quite Big Five based though. See <https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804674-6.00025-9> for the details. It's way too much to get into the details here, but a teaser quote:

> vocational interests are markedly
> more stable than the Big Five personality traits in adolescence and young adulthood
> (Low et al., 2005). Although the stability of both constructs increases during these
> life phases, the stability of interests becomes stronger, and vocational interests
> remain more stable than the Big Five personality traits for ages 22 to 29. From ages
> 30 to 39, the stability coefficients of the Big Five and vocational interests converge.
> However, even though vocational interests tend to be remarkably stable, there is
> still room for change.
>
> [...]
>
> The approach of viewing vocational interests as personality traits is based on
> personality models (e.g., the Neo-Socioanalytic Model of Personality; Roberts &
> Wood, 2006; McAdams & Pals, 2006) that distinguish between personality traits
> and motivations and consider interests and personality traits to be equivalent or
> regard interests explicitly as personality characteristics (e.g., Kandler,
> Zimmermann, & McAdams, 2014). By contrast, several other models of personality
> view interests as outcomes of personality traits (e.g., McCrae & Costa, 2008).
>
> [...] Holland himself stated that vocational interests are “an important aspect of personality” (Holland, 1997, p. 8), and he defined the six interest types as “personality types” (Holland, 1997).

See also [a review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2015.12.011) on the correlation of choice of academic major and Big Five personality (that's got some mainstream press [coverage](https://www.independent.co.uk/student/student-life/Studies/new-study-finds-link-between-big-five-personality-traits-and-which-subject-students-study-at-a6846996.html).)

> Consistent findings across studies were that students of arts/humanities and psychology scored high on Neuroticism and Openness; students of political sc. scored high on Openness; students of economics, law, political sc., and medicine scored high on Extraversion; students of medicine, psychology, arts/humanities, and sciences scored high on Agreeableness; and students of arts/humanities scored low on Conscientiousness. [...] For all Big Five personality traits medium effect sizes were found frequently, and for Openness even large effect sizes were found regularly.

(Some will surely turn on the MBTI-style cliché/stereotype generator based on that.)

I'm not sure if there's that level of research depth for just "hobbies and [non-professional] interests" as opposed to vocational/academic-major choice, but probably there are some papers on the less professional interests. I'm not sure there's a unifying (attempt at) theory for just any interests, but one can surely find somewhat amusing/disparate papers [like](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2019.101307):

> Collectors with an investment motive tend to have above-average education and financial means. High Openness and low Agreeableness significantly characterize their personality.


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