This paper tests the hypothesis that vocational motivation (as assessed by religious orientation theory) among Catholic seminarians is significantly correlated with their personality profile (as assessed by the Big Five Factor model). Data provided by 170 seminarians in Italy who completed the New Indices of Religious Orientation and the Big Five Questionnaire demonstrated that: the intrinsic orientation is high among seminarians and positively correlated with conscientiousness; the extrinsic motivation is low among seminarians and negatively correlated with emotional stability; and that the quest orientation is quite high among seminarians, positively correlated with openness and negatively correlated with conscientiousness and friendliness. Attention is given to the distinctive strengths and weaknesses of the quest orientation within the context of formation for priesthood.

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个性和职业动机：意大利天主教神学院使用五巨头和 NIRO 的研究

本文检验了天主教修生的职业动机（由宗教取向理论评估）与他们的人格特征（由大五因素模型评估）显着相关的假设。意大利170名修生者完成新宗教取向指数和大五问卷调查的数据表明：修生者的内在取向度高，与尽责性呈正相关；外在动机在修生中较低，与情绪稳定性呈负相关；并且在修生中追求取向相当高，与开放性正相关，与尽责性和友好性负相关。