TWA

Question 1

Theory of work adjustment: TWA

Answer 1

For personality style variables are important in characterizing how an individual interacts with the environment: celerity, pace, rhythm, and endurance

Question 2

Celerity

Answer 2

Refers to the speed with which an individual initiate interaction with his or her environment. An individual may have a high celerity – quickly, or perhaps impulsively, acting on the environment – or may have a very low celerity – moving slowly to action

Question 3

Pace

Answer 3

Indicates the intensity or activity level of one’s interaction with the environment. Once the individual acts on the environment, pace indicates the rate of interaction. Individuals may, for example be viewed as having very high energy; this is an indication of the pace of their interaction with the environment. A high-energy person, however, may have that energy only when in front of a group of people or may be able to sustain it for only a short period of time. These are indications of his or her rhythm and endurance

Question 4

Rhythm

Answer 4

The pattern of the pace of interaction with the environment (steady, cyclical, or erratic)

Question 5

Endurance

Answer 5

Refers to the sustaining of interaction with the environment

Question 6

Flexibility

Answer 6

The ability to tolerate a mismatch (discorrespondence) between needs and rewards offered by the environment before doing something to make an adjustment

Question 7

Activeness

Answer 7

Acting on the environment

Question 8

Reactiveness

Answer 8

Adjusting self

Question 9

Perseverance

Answer 9

Continuing in the job after a mismatch is noted and the individual works to bring it

Question 10

Application

Answer 10

The counselor would wonder what the clients history might indicate about his or her abilities and needs and values, as well as what information maybe gathered from the times the client has been dissatisfied

Question 11

TWA is well-suited to job adjustment counseling

Answer 11

Counselors evaluate where they are in terms of their threshold of flexibility and evaluate their skills in reactive and active adjustment modes

Question 12

Goals of career counseling

Answer 12

Identify career choice, clarifying decision-making, helping a client identify opportunities for adjustment, and helping a client decide on various ways to change an environment

Question 13

Values

Answer 13

Grouping of needs

Question 14

Abilities

Answer 14

General dimensions that underlie groupings of acquired skills