Career Development Theories & Models Flashcards

In Gottfredson's theory, at which stage do children begin rejecting occupations they view as inappropriate for their gender?

Answer: Orientation to sex roles

During orientation to sex roles (about ages 6-8), children eliminate occupations seen as wrong for their gender.

A client enjoys persuading others, leading teams, and taking business risks. Which Holland type best fits?

Answer: Enterprising

Enterprising types prefer leading, persuading, and selling to reach organizational or economic goals.

According to Bandura's framework used in SCCT, which source of self-efficacy is generally the most powerful?

Answer: Personal performance accomplishments

Direct mastery experiences, or performance accomplishments, have the strongest influence on self-efficacy beliefs.

A 38-year-old who was laid off returns to exploring new career options. Super would describe this as:

Answer: Recycling

Super's recycling refers to moving back through earlier stages, such as exploration, during career transitions.

Super described career development as essentially the process of developing and implementing which construct?

Answer: Self-concept

Super held that people implement their self-concepts through occupational choices.

Which framework places the individual within interconnected social and environmental-societal systems, with recursiveness, change over time, and chance?

Answer: Systems Theory Framework

Patton and McMahon's Systems Theory Framework is a metatheory showing the many interacting influences on careers.

Who first applied Bandura's self-efficacy concept to women's career development in 1981?

Answer: Hackett and Betz

Hackett and Betz argued that lower self-efficacy in nontraditional fields limited women's career options.