Chapter 9: Late Adolescent and Adult Career Development

Question 1

What are the life roles?

Answer 1

• Studying
• Working
• Community Service
• Home and Family
• Leisure Activities

Question 2

Define role salience

Answer 2

(Salience Inventory) The importance of a particular life role. Roles have varying importance across lifespan.

Question 3

How is role involvement measured?

Answer 3

• Participation - actual behavior
• Commitment - future plans, desire to be active
• Knowledge- info about role from exp or observation
• Value expectations - extent to which role meets certain values.

Question 4

What are Super’s stages for adults (15-65+)?

Answer 4

• Exploration (15-25)
• Establishment (25-45)
• Maintenance (46-65)
• Disengagement (65+)

Question 5

What occurs in the exploration stage?

Answer 5

• Crystallizing - when folks clarify what they want to do. Figuring out abilities, interests, and values and which occupations would be a good fit. Learn about occupation information. Every time a person changes fields - goes through these stages again.
• Specifying - choosing first full-time job. Required to specify interests in order to find an employer.
• Implementing - making plans to fulfill career objectives. Could start to network, talking to a career counselor, writing resumes, going to job interviews, and decided between potential employers.

Question 6

What occurs in the establishment stage?

Answer 6

• Stabilizing - Requires a minimum amount of permanence. Settling down in a job and meeting the job requirements. Start by being unsure if they have the skills necessary to say in the job long term.
• Consolidating - Becomes more comfortable with job and wants to be known as dependable producer. Want to do their job well. Feel secure in position.
• Advancing - usually occurs after stabilizing and consolidating. Moving up to position with more responsibility and higher pay. Plan to get ahead and earn a promotion.

Question 7

What occurs in the maintenance stage?

Answer 7

• Holding - once some level of success has been attained - interested in holding on to their position. May mean new training and learning to stay up to date. See mass layoffs or forced early retirement as a threat.
• Updating - attend continuing education to maintain position. Attending conferences and trainings to update knowledge.
• Innovating - making progress in your profession. Making new contributions to the field.

Question 8

What occurs in the disengagement stage?

Answer 8

• Decelerating - Slowing down one’s work responsibilities. Finding easier ways or spending less time working.
• Retirement Planning - financial planning, planning activities to do in retirement. May take on part time job or volunteer - return to crystallization stage.
• Retirement Living - leisure, home and family, and community service become more important - work is less important. Important are where one lives, friends, and use of free time.

Question 9

What is the difference between the maxicycle in and minicycle?

Answer 9

Maxicycle - five major life stages

Minicycle - the five major life stages also occur within each of the substages.

Question 10

What is the Minority Identity Model?

Answer 10

Developed by Atkinson

Conformity - prefer dominant culture

Dissonance - encounter conflict between values of own culture and dominant culture

Resistance & Immersion - resist dominant culture and immerse in own culture.

Introspection - begins to question total acceptance of own culture.

Synergistic Articulation and Awareness - incorporates cultural values of both the dominant and own culture.