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
2
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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
3
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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
4
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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
5
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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
6
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occupational gender segregation
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- separation of jobs into stereotypical male and female categories
7
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job expertise
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- high level of skill that results from years of experience at a certain job
8
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ability/expertise trade-off
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- observation that as general ability declines with age, job expertise increases
9
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career recycling
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- the notion that people may go back and revisit earlier stages of career development
10
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career recycling
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- the notion that people may go back and revisit earlier stages of career development
11
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nontraditional student
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- in college, student who is older than 25
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
13
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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
14
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unemployment
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- state of being without a paid job when you are willing to work
15
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job loss
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- having paid employment taken away from an individual
16
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job insecurity
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- anticipation of job loss by currently employed workers
17
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shift work
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- jobs with nonstandard work schedules, including evening shifts, night shifts, adn rotating shifts
18
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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
19
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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
20
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labor force
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- those who are officially working at paid jobs
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
22
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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
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