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A life-span, life-space approach to career development

Donald E. Super
- 01 Jun 1980 - 
- Vol. 16, Iss: 3, pp 282-298
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In this paper, a Life-Career Rainbow is presented as a means of helping conceptualize multidimensional careers, the temporal involvement in, and the emotional commitment to, each role.
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This article is published in Journal of Vocational Behavior.The article was published on 1980-06-01. It has received 3973 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Career assessment & Career development.

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The Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Assessing the Presence of and Search for Meaning in Life

TL;DR: The Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ) as mentioned in this paper is a 10-item measure of the presence of, and the search for, meaning in life, which was developed to measure the emotional well-being of counseling patients.
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Life designing: A paradigm for career construction in the 21st century

TL;DR: In this article, a life-designing model for career intervention endorses five presuppositions about people and their work lives: contextual possibilities, dynamic processes, non-linear progression, multiple perspectives, and personal patterns.
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Career Adaptability: An Integrative Construct for Life-Span, Life-Space Theory

TL;DR: In this article, career adaptability is defined as a bridging construct to integrate the complexity engendered by viewing vocational behavior from four distinct vantage points: individual differences, development, self-and context.
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Generational Differences in Work Values: Leisure and Extrinsic Values Increasing, Social and Intrinsic Values Decreasing:

TL;DR: The authors examined the work values of a nationally representative sample of U.S. high school seniors in 1976, 1991, and 2006 (N = 16,507) representing Baby Boomers, Generation X (GenX), and Generation Me (GenMe), also known as GenY, or Millennials).
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The relationship of age to ten dimensions of job performance.

TL;DR: An expanded meta-analysis on the relationship between age and job performance that includes 10 dimensions of job performance shows that although age was largely unrelated to core task performance, creativity, and performance in training programs, it demonstrated stronger relationships with the other 7 performance dimensions.
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A theory of vocational development.

TL;DR: A theory of vocational development, a theory inherent in and emergent from the research and philosophy of psychologists and counselors, is discussed in this article, where the authors describe a developmental process of occupational choice that ends in a compromise between interests, capacities, values, and opportunities.
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Psychology of Occupations

Anne Roe
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Early determinants of vocational choice.

TL;DR: In this paper, some hypotheses about the relationships between early experience and attitudes, abilities, interests, and other personality factors that affect the ultimate vocational selection of the individual are discussed. But beyond these it is uncertain how far specifically genetic elements are primary factors.