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Investigating Recommended Jobs for Generation A Individuals With High-functioning Autism to Enhance Person-job Fit

Gundars Kaupins (Boise State University, USA)

Generation A

ISBN: 978-1-80071-257-7, eISBN: 978-1-80071-256-0

Publication date: 18 January 2022

Abstract

Generation A individuals with Asperger's (high-functioning autism) might increase their chance that their skills fit with job requirements (person-job fit) by considering various nonacademic and popular lists of Asperger's-friendly jobs. Asperger's “celebrity” and professor Temple Grandin's list of 51 jobs was investigated using Asperger's-related job characteristics from the US Department of Labor's O*NET job description database. Using a factor analysis resulting in six Asperger's-related job characteristics, social orientation was the only factor that significantly predicted Grandin's judgment of what is an Asperger's-related job based on a binomial logistic regression analysis. Another analysis using O*NET data showed a wide variety of jobs that were most and least associated with each of the six factors. Study limitations and future research follow the analyses.

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Citation

Kaupins, G. (2022), "Investigating Recommended Jobs for Generation A Individuals With High-functioning Autism to Enhance Person-job Fit", Giannantonio, C.M. and Hurley-Hanson, A.E. (Ed.) Generation A (Emerald Studies in Workplace Neurodiversity), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 69-91. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-256-020211005

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