PSY 2114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Blue-Collar Worker, Human Services, Briey

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2114
• Professor: Heather Poole

Document Summary

In early adulthood, people typically live on their own, then marry, then have children. In middle- age, their children leave home, and parenting responsibilities diminish. Late adulthood brings retirement, growing old, and the death of spouse. In early adulthood, the emphasis is on vocational choice and developing relationships. Me > us > family > family > us > me: selecting a vocation. In societies with many career possibilities, occupational choice is a gradual process that begins long before adolescence. Fantasy period: early-mid childhood, kids fantasize about career options. Tentative period: age 11-16, kids think about careers in terms of their interests, then in terms of their abilities and values. Realistic period: late teens-early twenties, start to narrow their options: factors in uencing vocational choice, personality: theory of personality types that affect vocational choice. Research shows a moderate relationship between these personality types and vocational choice.