Career Choice and Development

of our abilities or courage, for instance, until they are actually tested. And many an education or business major has solidifie ...

ipatory compromise takes place when people begin to moderate their hopes (assessments of compatibility) with their perceptions o ...

1.Selective attention. People normally attend to information about the accessibility of occupations they deem suitable for them- ...

tives (a minor compromise) can limit the degree to which the pre- ferred self-concept can be fully implemented via career, the p ...

The principles of compromise, which are discussed in the sec- tions to follow, are: Developing conditional priorities Opting fo ...

When moderate trade-offs are required within the social space (d, e,orf), people will most avoid the compromise in prestige (d) ...

such intersection is that the most central elements of self-concept (for which the highest absolutelevels of concern can be arou ...

mise allows one to implement a desired social self, either through the work itself or the lifestyle it allows self and family. I ...

As noted earlier, different career theories tend to make differ- ent assumptions about the origins of individual differences in ...

Under socialization theory, external forces create our experi- ences and our experiences create us. A person’s profile of attrib ...

less genetically heritable—perhaps insignificantly so, as environ- mental influences accumulate with age. This expectation is sh ...

abilities, personality traits, psychopathology) are at least moderately heritable, that is, genetic in origin (usually 40–70 per ...

1990). These findings are less surprising when one considers that all the outcomes in question are influenced by heritable trait ...

have criminal convictions have no higher rate of criminal behavior than other adoptees unlesstheir biological parents also have ...

temporarily in childhood) or in personality. This fact is illustrated by biological siblings who are no more alike phenotypicall ...

the environments that we experience in common with family mem- bers but environments that affect us one individual at a time. Bo ...

with one’s genetic individuality, that is, the pursuit of a congruent ecological “niche” or place in the world. Nature-nurture p ...

Trait Development Principles. Nature-nurture partnership theory suggests the following five propositions about how individual di ...

(1) Precursor Traits(most heritable) (2) General Traits CHILD’S EVOLVING MENU FOR POSSIBLE EXPERIENCES (3) Ends-Specific Trait C ...

2.Universally available human experiences as consolidator of general (culture-independent) traits.The flow of small experiences ...