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The Relationship between the Professional Career Development and Adult Life Cycle for Women and Men.
Phillips, Rebecca R. – 1982
The Career Development Inventory--Adult Form was used to measure career development, and three instruments were used to measure the life cycle or personal phasic development in order to seek a relationship between the adult life cycle and the professional career development cycle for women and men. Population for the study was a random sample of…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Aging (Individuals), Career Development
Peer reviewedMarsh, Stephanie R. – College Student Affairs Journal, 2001
Adult development theory can assist supervisors in understanding the needs of staff member sin various stages on their psychosocial and career development. A chart was created that identifies developmental tasks or challenges many student affairs professionals face during their working lives, and approaches supervisors may use to assist staff in…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Career Development, Developmental Tasks, Higher Education
Download full textHeffernan, James M. – 1983
Little attention has been given to how adults develop through their lifetimes and what roles their workplace environments play in that development. Research and theory regarding adult psychosocial development have confirmed the developmental life-cycle phases of adulthood. These are: leaving the family (ages 16-22), getting into the adult world…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adults, Career Development
Super, Donald E. – 1985
One of the new dimensions of vocational and career counseling is the recognition of the continuity in careers. Despite periods of unemployment and despite a radical change of occupations, the person having these experiences of change is still the same person. Although a career involves the life pursuits of a person, there are several differing…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adults
Ralph, Joan; And Others – 1987
Following a literature search of the theories of personal maturation and career development, a study was conducted to identify personality and demographic variables related to career development and career concerns. Specifically investigated was the relationship between two sets of variables with self-concept, locus of control, and age in one set…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Career Change, Career Development
Berner, Andrew J. – 1979
Based on the experience of the Mid-Life Career Redirection Center at Chaffey College, this handbook was prepared for community colleges and agencies interested in providing vocational guidance services for adults, the role of community colleges in providing these services, and the types of programs which can meet the developmental and career needs…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Counseling, Adult Development, Adult Education
