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The construction of career through goal-directed action

Richard A. Young, +1 more
- 01 Jun 2004 - 
- Vol. 64, Iss: 3, pp 499-514
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In this article, a contextual action theory of career is proposed as an approach that reflects a constructionist stance and at the same time addresses fundamental issues raised by social constructionism, such as issues of meaning, interpretation, and agency.
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This article is published in Journal of Vocational Behavior.The article was published on 2004-06-01. It has received 129 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Career development & Constructionism.

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Calling and Vocation at Work: Definitions and Prospects for Research and Practice

Bryan J. Dik, +1 more
- 01 Apr 2009 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors established the constructs of calling and vocation within counseling psychology, with an eye toward stimulating research and providing useful practice applications, and explained how the constructs apply to the domain of human work, review empirical and theoretical work related to calling, and differentiate the terms from each other and related constructs.
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Introduction: Constructivism and social constructionism in the career field.

Richard A. Young, +1 more
- 01 Jun 2004 - 
TL;DR: The impact of constructivism and social constructionism upon vocational psychology has often been through the use of the more generic "constructivism" as mentioned in this paper, which claims that knowledge and meaning are historically and culturally constructed through social processes and action.
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Life Design: A Paradigm for Career Intervention in the 21st Century

Mark L. Savickas
- 01 Jan 2012 - 
TL;DR: A new paradigm is implicit within the constructivist and narrative methods for career intervention that have emerged in the 21st century, and as mentioned in this paper makes that general pattern explicit by abstracting its key elements from the specific instances that substantiate the new conceptual model.
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Autoethnography as a Method for Reflexive Research and Practice in Vocational Psychology.

Peter McIlveen
- 01 Jul 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the qualitative research method of auto-ethnography and its relevance to research in vocational psychology and practice in career development is discussed, as well as the notion of critical consciousness within researchers and practitioners.
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Long work hours: a social identity perspective on meta‐analysis data

Thomas W. H. Ng, +1 more
- 01 Oct 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used meta-analysis to examine the relationship between hours worked and indicators of organizational identity (e.g., organizational support and tenure), occupational identity, human capital investments and work centrality), and family identity, and found that occupational factors and situational demands had the strongest relationships with hours worked.
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Acts of meaning

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A life-span, life-space approach to career development

Donald E. Super
- 01 Jun 1980 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a Life-Career Rainbow is presented as a means of helping conceptualize multidimensional careers, the temporal involvement in, and the emotional commitment to, each role.
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Handbook of Emotions

Michael Lewis, +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of emotion in the development of the human brain and its role in human emotion processing, and propose a framework to understand the relationship between human emotion and the brain.