Career Choice and Development

satisfaction, work involvement, and the links between work and family life. She is now assessing the effects of adolescent work ...

PART ONE Introduction and Cases ...

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1 Introduction to Theories of Career Development and Choice Origins, Evolution, and Current Efforts Duane Brown “In the wise cho ...

4 CAREER CHOICE AND DEVELOPMENT advanced the three-step “formula” quoted at the beginning of the chapter. Parsons’s schema for s ...

that broke with the static trait-and-factor theory. They posited that career development is a lifelong developmental process. Th ...

6 CAREER CHOICE AND DEVELOPMENT he subsequently revised (Holland, 1985, 1997). His theory has pro- vided the impetus for hundred ...

variables related to career choice and occupational attainment. Oth- ers, such as Musgrave (1967), offered sociologically based ...

theorizing often retain the terms and definitions of the theory from which they deduce their ideas about career choice and devel ...

In well-developed theories, constructs are not only carefully defined but they are assigned levels of importance. Super (1990) s ...

inundated with information suggesting that the most appropriate role for women was housewifery, girls began to limit their caree ...

theory and research to practice. However, all psychologically based theories should be relevant to practice. Theorists vary wide ...

have the same objective: predicting the degree of fit or congruence between people’s personalities and their occupations. In add ...

The contexts (environments) in which people operate are considered neutral or relatively unimportant; thus, the focus of inquir ...

meaning from the realm of knowledge because they cannot be empir- ically determined. The assumptions of the social constructioni ...

sible, a unified theory is will-o’-the-wisp” (p. 42). Holland (1994), also addressing the idea of a unified theory, states, “It ...

processes. In the second edition, we were more concerned with the application of the theories. Accordingly, contributors, with t ...

ally, all contributors to this volume have been asked to address issues involved in the career choice and development of women a ...

we present via a case study. In this edition, two cases are presented. One of the clients, “E,” is a white European female; the ...

theories dominate thinking and research, but the trait-and-factor models rooted in the early theorizing of Frank Parsons dominat ...