Super Theory on Career Development

Question 1

Three key aspects of Super’s Career Development

Answer 1

Life span, Life space, Self-concept

Question 2

Life span stage-fantasy, interests, and capacities of career knowledge

Answer 2

Growth (4-13)

Question 3

Life Span Stage-crystallizing, specifying, and implementing

Answer 3

Exploration (14-24)

Question 4

Life span stages-stabilizing, consolidating, and advancing

Answer 4

Establishment (ages 25-45)

Question 5

Life Span Stages-holding, updating, and innovating

Answer 5

Maintenance (45-65)

Question 6

Life span stages-decelerating, retirement, planning, and retirement living

Answer 6

Disengagement (about age 65)

Question 7

Life Space

Answer 7

1. The combination of all ones life roles makes up his/her life style
2. Degree of importance to one’s work depends on the individual
3. Life roles interact within the main theaters of life roles

Question 8

Self concept

Answer 8

1. Both objective and subjective elements
2. Self-concepts develop over time, causing career choices and the adjustments affiliated with those career choices lifelong tasks

Question 9

Super Theory

Answer 9

Describes how careers develop and proposes development career interventions