Career Choice & Development Flashcards
According to Tiedeman’s career decision-making model, career development involves two major phases. These are:
A. anticipation and implementation.
B. induction and implementation.
C. exploration and commitment.
D. anticipation and maintenance.
Answer A is correct. Tiedeman’s (Miller-Tiedeman & Tiedeman, 1990; Tiedeman & O’Hara, 1963) career decision-making model distinguishes between two phases: anticipation and implementation.
Satisfaction and satisfactoriness are key concepts in which of the following theories?
A. Krumboltz’s social learning theory of career decision-making
B. Super’s self-concept theory of career development
C. Brousseau and Driver’s career concept model
D. Dawis and Lofquist’s theory of work adjustment
Answer D is correct. Dawis and Lofquist’s (1984) theory of work adjustment identifies tenure as the primary indicator of work adjustment and proposes that it’s affected by two factors – satisfaction and satisfactoriness.
As defined by Holland (1985), differentiation refers to:
A. the match between a person’s personality and the characteristics of his/her work environment.
B. the degree to which a person’s personality type is clearly defined in terms of the RIASEC types.
C. the distinctiveness of the roles the person adopts at any point during his/her lifespan.
D. the degree to which a person’s vocational identity is consistent with his/her ego identity.
Answer B is correct. Holland proposed that a personality/work environment match is most predictive of job outcomes when the person’s score profile on the Self-Directed Search indicates a high degree of differentiation – i.e., when the person obtains a high score on one personality type and low scores on the other five types.
Which of the following is NOT one of the six personality/environment types identified by Holland?
A. realistic
B. investigative
C. administrative
D. social
Answer C is correct. Holland’s (1985) theory of career choice distinguishes between six personality and work environment types (“RIASEC”): realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional.
According to Donald Super, career development involves five stages that occur over the lifespan. These stages include all of the following except:
A. establishment.
B. exploration.
C. maintenance.
D. anticipation.
Answer D is correct. Super’s (Super, Savickas, & Super, 1996) life-space, life-span theory of career development distinguishes between five stages of career development: growth (birth to 14), exploration (15 to 24), establishment (25 to 44), maintenance (45 to 64), and disengagement (65+).
