Lesson 32: Learning to Relax

Attention

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this lesson's material, students will be able to:

  • Reflect on your personal leisure activity choices and the reasons for these choices
  • Apply an analysis of your Holland Codes scores to your current leisure choices

Teaching

Applying Holland's Codes to LEISURE Activities

The Holland Codes are usually applied to an analysis of the our work-related preferences...the tools associated with the test are aligned to help people make career decisions.

However, the same codes can help us to understand how we might like to spend our leisure time...but we have to "think outside the box" a bit!

Consider the following examples of how each of the Holland categories might apply to someone's LEISURE choices (I'm using the descriptions of the categories below that can be found HERE):

  • Realistic
    • Focused on motor coordination, skills, and problem solving. Hobbies/activities such as working on cars, gardening, fixing up the house, etc. might align well with this person.
  • Investigative
    • Focused on data and ideas. Hobbies/activities such as genealogy, research, watching educational television, etc. might align well with this person.
  • Artistic
    • Focused on art, music, creativity, ideas, and things. Hobbies/activities such as playing music, line dancing, drawing, photography, etc. might align well with this person.
  • Social
    • Focused on people. Hobbies/activities for this person might include any of the other ones mentioned here but they do them in groups! These individuals might like social outings, partying, attending festivals, etc.
  • Enterprising
    • Focused on power and people. Interestingly these are the folks who will likely make money with their hobbies and focus on that. It would not be enough to simply take pictures, they might start a side business doing Wedding Photography.
  • Conventional
    • Focused on rules and regulations. Similar to our Social and Enterprising folks, individuals with this preference can do any hobbies but they would get a lot out of the STRUCTURE and regulation of these hobbies. These individuals who play sports (realistic) might also really attend to the importance of the rules of play (conventional). These individuals who like to build woodworking projects (artistic) will also have immaculately organized work rooms (conventional, i.e. "Don't move my tools!")

Mark Kavanaugh's Holland Codes (with application to Leisure Activities)

So here are my codes: ISA and ASI

  • Career Stuff:
    • ASI - Editor, Writers, and Authors
    • ISA - Economist, Medical Technologist, Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, Psychologist
  • Leisure Stuff:
    • Investigative leisure activities I like to engage in include:
      • Reading scientific journals
      • Watching educational television
      • Investigative web surfing
      • Problem solving through research
    • Artistic leisure activities I like to engage in include:
      • Playing music
      • Photography
      • Web design
      • Attending plays and concerts
    • Social leisure activities I like to engage in include:
      • I really like TALKING about all my hobbies...so I like talking about scientific ideas
      • I play music in a band (not just in my studio alone)
      • Although I test as an "introvert" I do act well in social situations such as parties and concerts, but they wear me out.
      • At the end of a show in my band I can simply go back to the hotel room or home and "veg".

Assessment

Lesson 32 Discussion

Complete the Holland and Myers Briggs tests listed below, report your results and how they line up (or don't line up) with your current LEISURE activities.

In truth, you don't have to redo the test as you have completed this test for a previous lesson...however, you can now apply those same results to an analysis of your LEISURE activities as opposed to your CAREER activities!

Here is an online version of the Holland Codes test developed at Rogue Community College.

http://www.roguecc.edu/counseling/HollandCodes/test.asp

Complete the Myers-Briggs test by completing the quiz at the site listed below:

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp

Then, analyze your results utilizing the information found on personalitypage.com

http://www.personalitypage.com/careers.html