Career Choice and Development

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10 Person-Environment- Correspondence Theory Rene V. Dawis Person-environment-correspondence (PEC) theory is the general- ized v ...

428 CAREER CHOICE AND DEVELOPMENT of the observer observing the observation. Also in psychology, the nature of the observer may ...

Interactionmeans that P and E act onandreact tothe other (each is both active and reactive). Both P and E have characteris- tics ...

430 CAREER CHOICE AND DEVELOPMENT is pursued until satisfaction is achieved or until P (or E) gives up on the interaction. In PE ...

iors that result in filling the need. The two terms, needandrein- forcer,can sometimes be circular in definition, such as when a ...

of P’s needs are filled from within P. For example, the reinforcers’ “water,” attention and praise, come from E, but a feeling o ...

Evolution theory would suggest that needs and skills must be related somehow because without the appropriate skills, P cannot fi ...

the effectiveness of skills), or both. Whatever changes there may be, P tries to achieve a certain level of satisfaction and mai ...

Individual Differences Ps differ. On any given PEC variable—need, skill, or satisfaction— different Ps will differ in their stat ...

because doing so will be instrumental in filling their own needs. Each is able to respond because each has skills. PEC theory as ...

This use of commensurate P and E variables enables a direct one-to-one assessment of P-E correspondence, first, by examining the ...

in PEC theory as the attempt to restore P-E correspondence; mainte- nanceandadjustmentare the two major modes of behavior. P and ...

What applies to P can be applied to E in symmetric fashion. When E is dissatisfied, E can adjust by getting P to effect changes ...