Career Choice & Development

"Holland's theory describes the nature or disposition of the individual worker using six personality/interest types, and it also classifies the nature of the work environments in which those individuals function using a parallel set of constructs."

"The life-span, life-space approach to career development brings together life-stage psychology and social role theory to convey a comprehensive picture of multiple-role careers, together with their determinants and interactions."

"The narrative portrays the protagonist, balancing how others see the client (vocational identity) and how the client views the self (occupational self-concept)."

"Cognition and human limits in information processing are essential to understanding career development."

"Compromise is adjusting aspirations to accommodate an external reality."

"Circumscription and compromise theory points to the need for counselees and counselors alike to recognize that this effort in implementing the personal self may have been constricted by prior efforts to define the more social self."

"Self-observation generalizations may be overt or covert and influence the outcome of new learning experiences."

"Status-attainment theory emphasizes social-psychological processes that account for the pervasive correlation between parental statuses and the occupational and earnings achievements of their children."

"Because the career role influences all other life roles, the potential impact on roles such as family, leisure, and education should be considered simultaneously with the career decision."

"The social cognitive framework conceptualizes career-related interest, choice, and performance within three interlocking models."

"Procedures designed to boost clients' self-efficacy beliefs may be important treatment ingredients for many persons experiencing career choice or performance difficulties."

"Career behavior and associated contexts only gain substance and importance when understood in relation to the person's intentions."