UNIT 7 Flashcards

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career

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  • patterns and sequences of occupations or related roles held by people across their working lives and into retirement
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life-span/life-space theory

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  • in vocational psychology

- career develop in stages and cannot be studied in isolation from other aspects of a person’s life

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role salience

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  • the degree of one’s participation, commitment, and value expectation in the roles in each of the five areas
  • how COMMITTED and INVOLVED we are in the roles we play each of these life spaces
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vocational interests

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  • personal attitudes, competencies and values of a person has relating to his or her career
  • Holland
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occupational gender segregation

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  • separation of jobs into stereotypical male and female categories
  • pressure to conform to the stereotypes
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occupational gender segregation

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  • separation of jobs into stereotypical male and female categories
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job expertise

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  • high level of skill that results from years of experience at a certain job
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ability/expertise trade-off

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  • observation that as general ability declines with age, job expertise increases
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career recycling

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  • the notion that people may go back and revisit earlier stages of career development
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career recycling

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  • the notion that people may go back and revisit earlier stages of career development
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nontraditional student

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  • in college, student who is older than 25
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12
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job burnout

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  • job related condition that is a combination of exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced effectiveness
  • when pace and pressure of the job become more than the person can cope with
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work engagement

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  • approach to work that is active, positive, and characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption
  • involvement in the work
  • avoids burnout
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14
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unemployment

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  • state of being without a paid job when you are willing to work
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15
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job loss

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  • having paid employment taken away from an individual
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16
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job insecurity

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  • anticipation of job loss by currently employed workers
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17
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shift work

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  • jobs with nonstandard work schedules, including evening shifts, night shifts, adn rotating shifts
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household labor

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  • unpaid work done in the home for oneself and family that includes meal preparation and cleanup, grocery shopping, laundry, and housecleaning
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retirement

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  • career stage in which older worker leaves the full-time workforce to pursue other interests, such as part time work, volunteer work, or leisure interests
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20
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labor force

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  • those who are officially working at paid jobs
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21
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work related value

retirement

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  • the amount of salary, pension, and Social Security benefits a worker will receive later if he or she continues working
  • can be weighed against retirement-related value
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retirement-related value

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  • the amount of personal wealth one has, plus Social Security and pension benefits, salary from part-time jobs, and health insurance benefits available if one retires
  • can be weighed against work related value
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23
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feminization of poverty

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  • term used to describe the trend that n increasingly larger proportion of people living in poverty are women
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feminization of poverty

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  • term used to describe the trend that n increasingly larger proportion of people living in poverty are women
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25
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domestic migration

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  • moving one’s residence from one country to another or to a different state within the United States
26
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seasonal migration

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  • moving one’s residence to another location temporarily

- spend winter in warmer climate then returning home

27
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bridge job

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  • part-time job or less stressful full-time job usually taken after retirement
28
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phased retirement

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  • situation in which an older person continues to work for an employer part time as transition to retirement
29
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  1. growth

Super’s life-span/lifespace theory

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  • 4 to 14
  • development of SELF CONCEPT
  • learn about the world
  • work-related attitudes
  • sense of conviction and purpose
  • attitudes and competencies of work
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  1. exploration

Super’s life-span/lifespace theory

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  • 15 to 24
  • CRYSTALLIZE career preference
  • specify and implement an occupation choice
  • learn about the job
31
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  1. establishment

Super’s life-span/lifespace theory

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  • 25 to 44
  • stabilize in job
  • consolidate
  • advance
  • until you achieve where you want to be
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  1. maintenance

Super’s life-span/lifespace theory

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  • 45 to 65
  • hold achieved job
  • update and innovate tasks
  • reevaluate and renew
  • job is secure
33
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  1. disengagement

Super’s life-span/lifespace theory

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  • 65 +
  • decelerate workloads and productivity
  • retirement
  • shift to other aspects of life
34
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lifespace

Super’s life-span/lifespace theory

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  • deals with the roles

- school, work, home, family, community

35
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diffusion

James Marcia/career selection

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  • no exploration, no commitment
36
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foreclosure

James Marcia/career selection

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  • commitment, no exploration

- following parent’s expectations

37
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moratorium

James Marcia/career selection

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  • exploration, no commitment
38
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achievement

James Marcia/career selection

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  • exploration and commitment
39
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conventional

Holland vocational interest

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  • data and detail people
  • words and numbers
  • instructions
  • dislike: ambiguity, unstructured
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realistic

Holland vocational interest

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  • technically and athletically inclined
  • hands and tools to build
  • outdoors
  • dislike: educational or therapeutic activities
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investigative

Holland vocational interest

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  • abstract problem solvers
  • observing, learning, investigating, solving problems
  • dislike: repetitive activities and working with people
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artistic

Holland vocational interest

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  • idea creators
  • minds innovating
  • imagining
  • dislike structure
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social

Holland vocational interest

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  • people helpers
  • people informing, enlightening, helping training
  • dislike machinary
44
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enterprising

Holland vocational interest

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  • people influences
  • people leading, managing them
  • dislike precise work, concentrated intellectual work
45
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glass escalators

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  • higher level than traditional job

- more in men

46
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glass ceilings

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  • can be promoted but has limitations

- more in women

47
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career efficacy

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  • level of confidence they can do the job
48
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alienation

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  • workers feel that what they are doing is meaningless

- their efforts are devalued and don’t see the connection between work and final product

49
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bullying

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  • persistently offensive and intimidating behavior towards another
  • indirect, moderately aggressive
  • direct, escalating aggression
  • direct, severely aggressive
50
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work-family conflict

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  • feeling of being pulled in multiple directions by incompatible demands from job and family
51
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extreme caregivers

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  • taking care of both children and dependent adult family
52
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amenity moves
(domestic migration)
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  • warmer climates and outdoor activities
53
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  • kinship moves

domestic migration

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  • closer to children and familiar surroundings
54
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institutional move
(domestic migration)
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  • assisted living facility or some type of nursing home
55
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shunning retirement

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  • highly educated individuals
  • personal lives blend into professional lives
  • work as long as possible
56
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continuers

Schlossberg form of retirement

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  • continue the same activities
  • volunteer
  • not letting go
57
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adventurers

Schlossberg form of retirement

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  • learn new skills
  • new jobs
  • completely different fields
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searchers

Schlossberg form of retirement

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  • looking for their niche
  • trial and error
  • take on little jobs
  • high exploration
59
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easy gliders

Schlossberg form of retirement

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  • enjoying unscheduled time

- going with the flow

60
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involved spectators

Schlossberg form of retirement

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  • stay interested in field but stay in the distance

- keep up to date

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retreaters

Schlossberg form of retirement

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  • withdraw/depressed

- unhappy with retirement