Career Choice and Development

some students’ indecision problems are wrapped in their role as children because they cannot make a choice for fear of disap- po ...

construction—one that augments the objective, public, and nor- mative framework for comprehending vocational behavior. Developme ...

and the world through their parents’ eyes. Children look to their parents as guides when they begin to explore how they will pri ...

accelerates reality testing, because hobbies lay halfway between play and work (Freud, 1965). Of course, schoolwork also contrib ...

and metadimensions—a confusion that has resulted in use of the termself-conceptas a synonym for, and even instead of, the term s ...

role, careers are deeply grounded in “status identity,” that is, an indi- vidual’s internal representation of his or her locatio ...

outer world. The overriding goal toward which career construction moves is a situation in which the occupational role validates ...

another stable condition. Each stage has a different goal, and the name of a stage indicates that goal: growth, exploration, est ...

with the four major tasks of vocational development that society imposes on children: Become concernedabout one’s future as a w ...

other) of career indifference. The secure attachment style fosters a future orientation and optimism, as well as daydreaming abo ...

coordinates of interpersonal initiative and intrapersonal purpose (Erikson, 1963). This developmental line starts when the curio ...

fully execute a course of action needed to make and implement suitable educational and vocational choices. Career confidence ari ...

might become. Over time, adolescents should gradually translate their vocational self-concept into a vocational identity—one sub ...

well. First, through differentiation the adolescent characterizes var- ious occupations according to their requirements, routine ...

patterns of development. Strong disharmony produces deviant pat- terns of development. Accordingly, the four developmental lines ...

occupational choicerequires that individuals explore deeply to sift through tentative preferences in preparation for declaring a ...

Berzonsky (1989) describes three distinct behavioral strategies by which people construct, maintain, and revise their psychosoci ...

a choice usually involves trial jobs in the specified occupation. The initial occupational position allows individuals to try on ...

Career Stage Three: Establishment The years of vocational establishment, generally defined as ages twenty-five to forty-four, in ...

Whether or not one advances to more responsible positions, late in the years of establishment most every worker, at one time or ...