Beneficial effects of disengagement from futile struggles with occupational planning
A contextualist-motivational approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9788178 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin J Tomasik (0000-0001-5235-3551, Jena University Hospital, corresponding author), Rainer K Silbereisen, Rainer Κ Silbereisen (0000-0003-4128-6538, Friedrich Schiller University Jena) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1785-1796 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/a0026952 |
| PMID | 22250999 |
| OpenAlex | W2047579325 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 24 |
Globalized labor markets confront many adults, both employed and unemployed, with demands arising from career uncertainty that have the potential to jeopardize their occupational planning. This article investigated how individuals in different regions of Germany, which are characterized by different economic opportunities, negotiate such demands to pursue a career. The central hypothesis is that under unfavorable economic conditions, disengagement from demands of career planning, in terms of reducing commitment to their mastery, will predict positive changes in subjective well-being. This was tested using a sample of N = 806 adults living in 91 regions of Germany. Results suggest that disengagement predicts increased subjective well-being, but only if individuals report a very high load of demands of career planning and live in regions characterized by particularly poor opportunities for goal striving. It is concluded that disengagement can be an adaptive way of mastering occupational planning under particularly disadvantageous circumstances
Career planning · Developmental psychology · Disengagement theory · Negotiation · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Toward a Life Course Framework for Studying Vulnerability
Social Comparison in Coping With Occupational Uncertainty
Dispositional Optimism Fosters Opportunity‐Congruent Coping With Occupational Uncertainty
Mindful Mindset, Interconnectedness and Dignity
Longitudinal associations between Identity processes and goal engagement and disengagement
Negotiating the demands of active ageing
Some evidence for the usefulness of an optimal foraging theory perspective on goal conflict and goal facilitation
The Quality of American Life
Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences
The Impact of Job Insecurity on Marital and Family Relationships
Adaptive Self-Regulation of Unattainable Goals
A motivational theory of life-span development.
Estimation of Composite Reliability for Congeneric Measures
Contextual supports and barriers to career choice
Globalization, Institutional Filters and Changing Life Course. Patterns in Modern Societies
British Youth Transitions in Comparative Perspective
Explained Variance in Multilevel Models
Economic Distress and Family Relations
Facing uncertainty
The Life-Course Dynamics of Goal Pursuit and Goal Adjustment
Stories of Life Transition
Public Decisions as Public Goods
The Meaning of Work in Women's Lives A Sociopsychological Model of Career Choice and Work Behavior
Globalization and the Nation-State
Control processes before and after passing a developmental deadline
Statistical difficulties of detecting interactions and moderator effects
Situational Determinants of Coping and Coping Effectiveness
Demands of Social Change as a Function of the Political Context, Institutional Filters, and Psychosocial Resources
Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,54 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2020 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |