Career Choice and Development

is not arbitrary, for not all imaginable cultures would comport with human nature (our collective genotype). Each culture, howev ...

efforts to launch themselves into adult roles. Career psychologists have accordingly put much effort into developing inventories ...

General Occupational Themes and Basic Interest Scales of the Strong Interest Inventory appear to stem from shared environmen- ta ...

for instance, can all be traced in part to shared family influences (roughly 10 to 25 percent; Lichtenstein & Pedersen, 1997 ...

Personal freedom as a major external factor governing the subset of experiences actually available to us Temperament or persona ...

neither individuals nor their environments are neutral with regard to the other. They inevitably modify or redirect each other t ...

traits) and thereby identify more genetically congenial activities and social niches. But with the benefits of freedom come cost ...

4.Temperament or personality as a major internal factor governing the subset of experiences actually available to us. People dif ...

5.Development as increasingly gene-directed, person-centered, and insightful. The larger our submenus of life possibilities, the ...

sistent directional force in our behavior and thereby become dis- cernible by the patterns they create. Its emergent pattern of ...

FIGURE 4.8. Summary of Biosocial Basis of Circumscription and Compromise Developing Self Emerging Perceptionsof Self and Social ...

Turning to the last row in Figure 4.8, people act on their self- perceptions, accurate or not, to position themselves in the soc ...

groups of their birth niche until some force turns them in a new direction. First, individuals are not apt to spend the effort a ...

iting options unnecessarily, it renders both circumscription and compromise non-optimal. Group Differences The same ambiguities ...

their career options long before they begin sorting through their possibilities in adolescence. By adolescence, most individuals ...

The examination of occupational alternatives that are inside and outside an individual’s zone of acceptable alternatives is faci ...

and thus somewhat more amenable to intervention. In particular, their consolidation and activation seems to depend somewhat on e ...

sonal development, not just by “treating” the individual in question but by having the person “treat” (modify) their own environ ...

Therefore, keep an open mind about the sources of an individual’s vocational interests, abilities, and attitudes.Make no assumpt ...

The Case of K K is a study in contradictions. His SAT scores show that he is very bright, yet he performed poorly in high school ...